Performance Evaluation of Interrupt-Driven Kernels in Gigabit Networks

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 3953-3957

  Salah, K ^a   El Badawi, K ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Analysis; Gigabit Networks; Interrupts; Modeling; Operating Systems; Performance; Receive Livelock

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COSTS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THROUGHPUT;

GIGABIT NETWORKS; INTERRUPTS; RECEIVE LIVELOCKS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0842310786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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