Virtualizing network I/O on end-host Operating System: Operating System support for network control and resource protection

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1303-1316

  Okumura, Takashi ^a,b   Mossé, Daniel ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Network communication; Operating systems; Process management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK COMMUNICATION; NETWORK CONTROL; PACKET SCHEDULING; PROCESS MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11944249195     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.86     Document Type: Article

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