The importance of non-data touching processing overheads in TCP/IP

Conference Proceedings on Communications Architectures, Protocols and Applications, SIGCOMM 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 259-268

  Kay, Jonathan ^a   Pasquale, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

DATA MOVEMENTS; DATA STRUCTURE MANIPULATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; NETWORK BUFFERS; OPERATING SYSTEM FUNCTIONS; PROCESSING OVERHEAD; PROCESSING TIME; UDP/IP PROTOCOL;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84974760753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/166237.166262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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