Efficient packet processing in user-level OSes: A study of UML

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 63-70

  Koh, Younggyun ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Bhatia, Sapan ^b   Consel, Charles ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THROUGHPUT; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

GIGABIT SPEEDS; LOCAL COMPUTER; MEMORY-MANAGEMENT; NETWORK PERFORMANCES; NETWORK SERVERS; NETWORK SYSTEMS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS); OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PACKET PROCESSING; PROTOCOL STACKS; TECHNIQUES USED; USER-MODE LINUX (UML); VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 46149118005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2006.322071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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