Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-70

  Ram, Kaushik Kumar ^b   Santos, Jose Renato ^a   Turner, Yoshio ^a   Cox, Alan L ^b   Rixner, Scott ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Device drivers; I O; Networking; Performance analysis; Virtual machine; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

DEVICE DRIVERS; I/O; NETWORKING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUALIZATION;

DEMULTIPLEXING; ETHERNET; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REUSABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 67650079956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508293.1508303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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