Characterizing user-level network virtualization: performance, overheads and limits

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 206-213

  Tsugawa, Maurício ^a   Fortes, José A B ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Performance; Virtual networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

BUILDING BLOCKS; E SCIENCE; MAXIMUM THROUGH-PUT; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; NEW HIGHS; PACKET PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE; TCP THROUGHPUTS; VIRTUAL NETWORKS; WIDE AREAS;

OVERLAY NETWORKS;

EID: 62749123526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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