Hashed and hierarchical timing wheels: Efficient data structures for implementing a timer facility

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 824-834

  Varghese, George ^a   Lauck, Anthony ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Callout facilities; Hashed wheels; Hierarchical wheels; Protocol implementations; Timer Facilities; Timers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

HASHED TIMING WHEELS; HIERARCHICAL TIMING WHEELS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031333634     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.650142     Document Type: Article

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