XenLoop: A transparent high performance inter-VM network loopback

Cluster Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 141-152

  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

COMMUNICATION LATENCY; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; GRAPHICS RENDERING; GRID APPLICATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; INTER-DOMAIN; INTER-VM COMMUNICATION; ISOLATION BARRIERS; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK INTERFACE; NETWORK PACKETS; NETWORK PATHS; ROUND TRIP; SHARED MEMORIES; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; STATE OF THE ART; TCP/UDP; TRANSACTION PROCESSING; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; XEN;

COMMUNICATION; MACHINE DESIGN; NETWORK LAYERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 68949203797     PISSN: 13867857     EISSN: 15737543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-009-0079-x     Document Type: Article

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