TCP offload is a dumb idea whose time has come

Proceedings of HotOS 2003 - 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 25-30

  Mogul, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVERALL BENEFIT; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 85092923502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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