To coalesce or not to coalesce

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 215-225

  Salah, Khaled ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

High speed networks; Interrupt coalescing; Interrupts; Modeling and analysis; Operating systems; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; INTERRUPT COALESCING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33847248430     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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