Tuning KVM to enhance virtual routing performance

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3803-3808

  Abeni, Luca ^a   Kiraly, Csaba ^a   Li, Nanfang ^b   Bianco, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROUTERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE; CPU AFFINITY; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LINUX KERNEL; ROUTING PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL ROUTERS; VIRTUALISATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84891370151     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6655148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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