Engineering a user-level TCP for the CLAN network

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications, NICELI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 228-236

  Mansley, Kieran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ARCHITECTURAL DECISION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; IT SUPPORTS; PROGRAMMED I/O; PROTOCOL PROCESSING; PROTOCOL STACK; SERVER CLUSTER; USER LEVEL NETWORK;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 85028678939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/944747.944757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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