Data plane optimization in open virtual routers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6640 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 379-392

  Rathore, Muhammad Siraj ^a   Hidell, Markus ^a   Sjödin, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

NAPI; network virtualization; SoftIRQ; Softnet API; virtual router

Indexed keywords

NAPI; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; SOFTIRQ; SOFTNET API; VIRTUAL ROUTER; VIRTUAL ROUTERS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; LINUX; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROUTERS;

EID: 79956037282     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20757-0_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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