Operating System Support for High-Speed Communication

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 41-51

  Druschel, Peter ^a  

^a Rice University

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RATES; DATA STREAMS; DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA; HIGH SPEED NETWORKING; MULTIPLE APPLICATION PROGRAMS; NETWORK CAPACITY; NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES;

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030241360     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/234215.234470     Document Type: Article

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