Hyper-switch: A scalable software virtual switching architecture

Proceedings of the 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 13-24

  Ram, Kaushik Kumar ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Chadha, Mehul ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

DEFAULT NETWORKS; NET ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK SWITCHES; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; PACKET PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; SWITCHING ARCHITECTURES;

PACKET SWITCHING;

EID: 85077207185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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