The importance of non-data touching processing overheads in TCP

The importance of non-data touching processing overheads in TCP

We present detailed measurements of various processing overheads of the TCP/IP and UDP/IP protocol stacks on a DECstation 5000/200 running the Ultrix 4.2a operating system. These overheads include data-touching operations, such as the checksum computation and data movement, which are well known to b...

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Udgivet i:Computer communication review. 23, 4 (1993).
Hovedforfatter: Kay, Jonathan
Format: Article
Sprog:English
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Computer systems organization.
Computer communication networks.
Network protocols.
TCP IP.
Performance of systems.
Performance attributes.
Software.
Operating systems.
Performance.
Queueing theory.
Measurements.
Design.
Experimentation.
Measurement.