User-level device drivers: Achieved performance

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 654-664

  Leslie, Ben ^a,c   Chubb, Peter ^a,c   Fitzroy Dale, Nicholas ^a   Götz, Stefan ^b   Gray, Charles ^a   MacPherson, Luke ^a   Potts, Daniel ^a   Shen, Yue Ting ^a   Elphinstone, Kevin ^a   Heiser, Gernot ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Device drivers; Operating systems; Performance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DEVICE DRIVERS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; USER-LEVEL CODE;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644593158     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-005-0654-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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