Design and implementation of a user-level sockets layer over virtual interface architecture

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 727-749

  Kim, Jin Soo ^a   Kim, Kangho ^b   Jung, Sung In ^b   Ha, Soonhoi ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Sockets; User level communication architecture; Virtual Interface Architecture

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0038324329     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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