Large-scale virtualization in the Emulab network testbed

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-128

  Hibler, Mike ^a   Ricci, Robert ^a   Stoller, Leigh ^a   Duerig, Jonathon ^a   Guruprasad, Shashi ^a,b   Stack, Tim ^a,b   Webb, Kirk ^a,b   Lepreau, Jay ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPARENCY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; NETWORK EMULATION; NETWORK TESTBEDS; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL COMPUTER NETWORKS; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT; VIRTUAL TOPOLOGIES;

VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 79251585299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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