Speeding up packet I/O in virtual machines

ANCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 47-58

  Rizzo, Luigi ^a   Lettieri, Giuseppe ^a   Maffione, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

netmap; Software Switches; Virtual Machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

NETMAP; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; SOFTWARE SWITCHES; TCP TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84893476455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ANCS.2013.6665175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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