Análise da viabilidade de uso do protocolo IP anycast em soluções de alta disponibilidade e balanceamento de carga

Abstract

This paper presents a study about the IP Anycast protocol’s usage as alternative to achieve high availability and load balance in geographic distributed services. It makes a comparation with another alternatives to achieve the desired results, by presenting some related articles. A simulation of a test environment obtained the results shown here. It concludes that the IP Anycast protocol is a viable alternative to achieve high availability and load balance in geographic distributed services. At the test environment, was possible to see a decrease of about 3 times in the latency between the client and the server, besides ensuring the availability of the service even part of the servers fail.