Porting a user-level communication architecture to NT: Experiences and performance

3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Chen, Yuqun ^a   Damianakis, Stefanos N ^a   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a   Yu, Xiang ^a   Li, Kai ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; LINUX;

DEVICE DRIVER; KERNEL MODIFICATIONS; LINUX IMPLEMENTATION; SYSTEM CHANGE; USER LEVELS; USER-LEVEL COMMUNICATION; WINDOWS NT;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 0004988209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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