Virtual WiFi: Bring virtualization from wired to wireless

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 181-192

  Xia, Lei ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^b   Yang, Xue ^b   Gopalakrishnan, Praveen ^b   Liu, York ^b   Schoenberg, Sebastian ^b   Guo, Xingang ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypervisor; Performance; Virtualization; WiFi; Wireless

Indexed keywords

CPU UTILIZATION; HYPERVISOR; NETWORK INTERFACE; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE STUDY; TECHNOLOGY GAP; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WIRED NETWORKS;

RADIO; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WI-FI;

EID: 80053545076     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2007477.1952706     Document Type: Article

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