User-space protocols deliver high performance to applications on a low-cost Gb/s LAN

Proceedings of the Conference on Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications, SIGCOMM 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 14-23

  Edwards, Aled ^a   Watson, Greg ^a   Lumley, John ^a   Banks, David ^a   Calamvokis, Costas ^a   Dalton, Chris ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

ADDRESS SPACE; CHANNEL IDENTIFIERS; DELAY SENSITIVE TRAFFIC; HIGH-SPEED NETWORKING; ITS APPLICATIONS; LAN TECHNOLOGIES; MEASURED RESULTS; NETWORK DRIVER;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33746804600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/190314.190316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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