Connection handoff policies for TCP offload network interfaces

OSDI 2006 - 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 293-306

  Kim, Hyong youb ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONNECTION HANDOFFS; CONNECTION LIFETIMES; CURRENT LOADS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; PACKET PROCESSING; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; WEB SERVERS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84898023834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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