Two analytical models for evaluating performance of gigabit ethernet hosts

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2 B, 2006, Pages 245-263

  Salah, Khaled ^a  

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

Author keywords

High speed networks; Interrupts; Modeling and analysis; Operating systems; Performance evaluation; Receive livelock

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047169699     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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