Performance Considerations in Designing Network Interfaces

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 203-219

  Ramakrishnan, K K ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; NETWORK INTERFACES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

NETWORK SPEEDS; TOKEN RINGS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0027541131     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.215016     Document Type: Article

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