Improving network I/O virtualization for cloud computing

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 673-681

  Bourguiba, Manel ^a   Haddadou, Kamel ^b   Korbi, Ines El ^c   Pujolle, Guy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Gandi SAS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; driver domain; I O virtualization; memory latency; networking performance; Xen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894572566     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.29     Document Type: Article

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