Scalable network virtualization using FPGAs

ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays - FPGA

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 219-228

  Unnikrishnan, Deepak ^a   Vadlamani, Ramakrishna ^a   Liao, Yong ^a   Dwaraki, Abhishek ^a   Crenne, Jérémie ^b   Gao, Lixin ^a   Tessier, Russell ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

FPGA; Virtual networks

Indexed keywords

DATA PLANES; MULTIPLE NETWORKS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PACKET FORWARDING; PC SERVERS; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY; SCALABLE NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ROUTERS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SYSTEM SCALABILITY; THROUGHPUT IMPROVEMENT; VIRTUAL NETWORKING; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LOGIC GATES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; ROUTERS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 77951546497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1723112.1723150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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