Fast networking with socket-outsourcing in hosted virtual machine environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 310-317

  Eiraku, Hideki ^a   Shinjo, Yasushi ^a   Pu, Calton ^b   Koh, Younggyun ^b   Kato, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Guest operating systems; Host operating systems; Hosted virtual machine monitors; Outsourcing; Paravirtualization; Socket API; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

GIGABIT ETHERNET; NETWORK PACKETS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; NOVEL METHODS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARAVIRTUALIZATION; PROTOCOL STACK; REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL; VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WEB APPLICATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ETHERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OUTSOURCING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 72949099857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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