Profiling and reducing processing overheads in TCP/IP

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 817-828

  Kay, Jonathan ^b   Pasquale, Joseph ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Isis Distributed Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMPRESSION; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION;

NETWORK SOFTWARE PROCESSING OVERHEADS; REDUCE PROCESSING OVERHEADS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030401623     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.556340     Document Type: Article

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