TCP offload through connection handoff

Proceedings of the 2006 EuroSys Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 279-290

  Kim, Hyong Youb ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connection handoff; Operating system; Programmable network interface; TCP offload

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PACKET NETWORKS; SERVERS;

CONNECTION HANDOFF; FINITE PROCESSING; PACKET PROCESSING; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK INTERFACES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547806361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1217935.1217962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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