On the Elusive Benefits of Protocol Offload

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 179-184

  Shivam, Piyush ^a   Chase, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed networking; IP; Network performance; Network storage; Protocol offload; RDMA; TCP

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERNET;

NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PROTOCOL OFFLOAD; RDMA;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 1642418487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/944748.944750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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