Network interface data caching

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1394-1408

  Kim, Hyong Youb ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a   Pai, Vijay S ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Local interconnects; Network interfaces; Operating systems; Web servers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; HTTP; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

INTERCONNECT BANDWIDTH; LOCAL INTERCONNECT TRAFFIC; WEB SERVERS;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 28244444809     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2005.185     Document Type: Article

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