An effective forwarding architecture for SMP Linux routers

Proceedings of the 2008 4th International Telecommunication Networking Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks, IT-NEWS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-216

  Bolla, Raffaele ^a   Bruschi, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COTS HARDWARE; INTERNET DEVICES; IP-NETWORKS; LINUX ROUTERS; MULTI CORES; MULTI PROCESSORS; MULTI SERVICES; PACKET FORWARDING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RESEARCH TOPICS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 50149101848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITNEWS.2008.4488155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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