A guided tour through data-center networking

Queue

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 10-23

  Abts, Dennis ^a   Felderman, Bob ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; QUEUEING THEORY;

DATA CENTER NETWORKINGS; DATA CENTER NETWORKS;

USER EXPERIENCE;

EID: 84860851031     PISSN: 15427730     EISSN: 15427749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2208917.2208919     Document Type: Article

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