Performance analysis of packet capture methods in a 10 Gbps virtualized environment

2012 21st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schultz, Michael J ^a   Crowley, Patrick ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

network monitoring; performance evaluation; throughput; virtualization

Indexed keywords

10 GBPS; CLOCK RATE; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; NETWORK MONITORING; NETWORK SPEED; PACKET CAPTURE; PACKET PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; PROCESSOR CORES; TRAFFIC RATE; VIRTUAL APPLIANCE; VIRTUAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84867750819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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