Improving virtualized windows network performance by delegating network processing

Proceedings - 2009 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 203-210

  Koh, Younggyun ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Shinjo, Yasushi ^b   Eiraku, Hideki ^b   Saito, Go ^b   Nobori, Daiyuu ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 GBPS ETHERNET; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA CENTERS; LINUX KERNEL; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NETWORK PROCESSING; PARAVIRTUALIZATION; SPEED-UPS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WINDOWS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70449453158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCA.2009.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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