Network I/O fairness in virtual machines

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 73-80

  Anwer, Muhammad Bilal ^a   Nayak, Ankur ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a   Liu, Ling ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

NetFPGA; network virtualization; xen

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; HYPERVISOR; NETFPGA; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RATE LIMITING; VIRTUAL INTERFACES; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACES; VIRTUAL SERVERS; XEN;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78649267101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851399.1851412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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