The applicability of integrated layer processing

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 317-331

  Ahlgren, Bengt ^b,c   Björkman, Mats ^c,d   Gunningberg, Per G ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication system performance; Communication system software; Computer networks; Integrated layer processing; Memory bandwidth bottleneck; Modeling; Protocol implementation technique; Protocols

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA MANIPULATION; INTEGRATED LAYER PROCESSING (ILP);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0032045660     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.669041     Document Type: Article

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