Increasing communication performance with a minimal-copy data path supporting ILP and ALF

Journal of High Speed Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-214

  Ahlgren, Bengt ^a   Gunningberg, Per ^b   Moldeklev, Kjersti ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Application Layer Framing; Communication performance; Integrated Layer Processing; Memory bandwidth bottleneck

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; USER INTERFACES;

APPLICATION LAYER FRAMING; INTEGRATED LAYER PROCESSING; MEMORY BANDWIDTH BOTTLENECK; MINIMAL COPY DATA PATH;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0029709601     PISSN: 09266801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jhs-1996-5209     Document Type: Article

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