Performance characteristics of virtual switching

2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Networking, CloudNet 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 120-125

  Emmerich, Paul ^a   Raumer, Daniel ^a   Wohlfart, Florian ^a   Carle, Georg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cloud; performance characterization; performance evaluation; platform virtualization; virtual switching

Indexed keywords

CLOUD NETWORKINGS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL NETWORK; PLATFORM VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 84925844791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6968979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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