Fair multithreading on packet processors for scalable network virtualization

ANCS 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Qiang ^a   Shanbhag, Shashank ^a   Wolf, Tilman ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACKET NETWORKS; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EVALUATION RESULTS; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; PROCESSING RESOURCES; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SCHEDULING DECISIONS; SUBSTRATE NETWORKS; AT-SPEED; FAIR SHARING; HARDWARE THREADS; INSTRUCTION-LEVEL; LINK BANDWIDTH; MULTI-THREADING; PACKET PROCESSING; PACKET PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE; PROCESSOR CORES; PROCESSOR SHARING; ROUTER MEMORY; SCALABLE NETWORKS; SIMULATION RESULT; SYSTEM SCALABILITY; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 78650474548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1872007.1872009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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