Network subsystems reloaded: A high-performance, defensible network subsystem

Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sinha, Anshumal ^a   Sarat, Sandeep ^a   Shapiro, Jonathan S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

MICRO KERNEL; MONOLITHIC DESIGN; MULTIPLE USER; NETWORK STACK; PROTECTION DOMAINS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; USER LEVELS; USER-LEVEL NETWORKING;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 62749160834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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