XenLoop: A transparent high performance inter-VM network loopback

Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing 2008, HPDC'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 109-118

  Wang, Jian ^a   Wright, Kwame Lante ^b   Gopalan, Kartik ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

^b Electrical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Inter VM communication; Virtual machine; Xen

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BENCHMARKING; COMMUNICATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIE CASTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MACHINE DESIGN; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; COMMUNICATION LATENCIES; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCES; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DO-MAINS; GRAPHICS RENDERINGS; GRID APPLICATIONS; INTER-VM COMMUNICATION; ISOLATION BARRIERS; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK INTERFACES; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORK PACKETS; NETWORK PATHS; ROUND TRIPS; SHARED MEMORIES; SHARED MEMORY MECHANISMS; STATE OF THE ARTS; TCP/UDP; TRANSACTION PROCESSING; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES; XEN;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 57449090446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1383422.1383437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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