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White Papers
Wake-On-LAN (WOL) Support on Dell Servers
Oct 2007
This paper provides step-by-step instructions for using Wake-On-LAN (WOL) with Dell Servers. Wake-On-LAN allows a server to be remotely powered on. Wake-On-LAN technology resides in a server's...
Provided by Dell
-
Resource Center
Choosing the Right Network Adapter Can Help Boost Reliability and Productivity for Your Business
Jun 2006
Use this helpful online tool to determine which Intel® PRO Network Adapters are suitable for your servers and desktop computers. Just click through to the Intel PRO Network Adapter Selector tool,...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Network Interface Cards as First-Class Citizens
Feb 2009
Network performance has improved by over an order-of-magnitude in the past decade. While, the overall system architecture itself has made modification attempts to match such growth, these changes...
Provided by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
-
White Papers
3G Converged-NICs: A Platform for Server I/O to Converged Networks
Jun 2010
Infrastructure consolidation is a key data center initiative because it simplifies operations and saves money. That's why IT organizations routinely standardize infrastructure to consolidate...
Provided by Broadcom
-
White Papers
Accelerated Virtual Switching With Programmable NICs for Scalable Data Center Networking
Sep 2010
Recently virtual switches in data center hosts have been employed to interconnect Virtual Machines (VMs) within data center networks. Such a virtual network layer, however, faces performance...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Crossbow: From Hardware Virtualized NICs to Virtualized Networks
Aug 2009
This paper describes a new architecture for achieving net-work virtualization using Virtual NICs (VNICs) as the building blocks. The VNICs can be associated with dedicated and independent hardware...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
-
White Papers
Wireless Device Identification With Radiometric Signatures
Aug 2008
The authors design, implement, and evaluate a technique to identify the source Network Interface Card (NIC) of an IEEE 802.11 frame through passive radio-frequency analysis. This technique, called...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Automatic Path Migration Over InfiniBand: Early Experiences
Jan 2007
High computational power of commodity PCs combined with the emergence of low latency and high bandwidth interconnects has escalated the trends of cluster computing. Clusters with InfiniBand are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Advanced Flow-Control Mechanisms for the Sockets Direct Protocol Over InfiniBand
May 2007
The Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is an industry standard to allow existing TCP/IP applications to be executed on high-speed networks such as InfiniBand (IB). Like many other high-speed networks,...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: Prototyping Network Interfaces
May 2007
RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC). It was created as an open platform for public use and is freely available for research and education. It...
Provided by Rice University
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental Research and Education
Jun 2007
The evaluation of new network server architectures is usually performed experimentally using either a simulator or a hardware prototype. Accurate simulation of the hardware-software interface...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Interaction-Aware Energy Management for Wireless Network Cards
Jun 2008
Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNICs) are part of every portable device, where efficient energy management plays a significant role in extending the device's battery life. The goal of efficient...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Service Cloaking and Authentication at Data Link Layer
Apr 2008
This paper discusses that there is significant benefit in providing stronger security at lower layers of the network stack for hosts connected to a network. It claims to reduce the attack...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
MESURE Tool to Benchmark Java Card Platforms
Aug 2009
The advent of the Java Card standard has been a major turning point in smart card technology. With the growing acceptance of this standard, understanding the performance behavior of these...
Provided by INRIA
-
Case Studies
Ecommerce Hosting Provider Drastically Cuts Server Provisioning Costs Using Virtualized InfiniBand-Based Solution and VMWare
Nov 2008
One of the top-five ecommerce hosting operations, and global 500company, this company caters to several vertical industries. Their challenge is with increased demands for resources and greater...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
-
White Papers
Home and Small Office Network Topologies
Jun 2001
Home and small office networks can be set up in a variety of configurations. The following factors can affect the ultimate network configuration: Equipment availability and cost—In many cases,...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Tools & Templates
Systems Optimization Self Assessment
Aug 2011
Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. driving out cost and improving service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization self assessment.
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
On a NIC's Operating System, Schedulers and High-Performance Networking Applications
Mar 2007
Today's modern high-end Network Interface Cards (NICs) are equipped with an onboard CPU. In most cases, these CPU's are only used by the vendor and are operated by a proprietary OS, which makes...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
White Papers
Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
Oct 2007
With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to...
Provided by Solarflare Communications
-
White Papers
Switch Virtual Interface for Cisco Integrated Services Routers
Sep 2007
This paper provides an overview of the Switch Virtual Interface (SVI) for Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Cisco offers three types of integrated switching modules for the modular Cisco 3800,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Joint Logical Topology Design, Interface Assignment, Channel Allocation, and Routing for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2007
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each NIC operates on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Logical Topology Design and Interface Assignment for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2006
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each interface...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Distributed Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Random Access
Aug 2008
The aggregate capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks can be substantially increased if each wireless node is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) and each NIC operates over a...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
An Efficient Buffer Management in a Network Interface Card
Jul 2006
This paper proposes a dynamic packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is to handle high-speed data streams, more than 10 Gb/s, in...
Provided by Mississippi State University
-
White Papers
A Resource Efficient Content Inspection System for Next Generation Smart NICs
Aug 2008
The aggregate power consumption of the Internet is increasing at an alarming rate, due in part to the rapid increase in the number of connected edge devices such as desktop PCs. Despite being left...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Smart-NICs: Power Proxying for Reduced Power Consumption in Network Edge Devices
Feb 2008
The number of edge devices connected to the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate. To maintain network connectivity, the majority of these devices remain completely powered on when idle, wasting...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Power-Proxying on the NIC: A Case Study With the Gnutella File-Sharing Protocol
Dec 2006
Edge devices such as desktop and laptop computers constitute a majority of the devices connected to the Internet today. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing applications generally require edge devices...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Integrated Circuit of CMOS DC-DC Buck Converter With Differential Active Inductor
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new design of DC-DC Buck Converter (BC), which the spiral inductor is replaced by a differential gyrator with capacitor load (gyrator-C) implemented in 0.18um...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
Performance Comparison Between the Click Modular Router and the NetFPGA Router
Sep 2011
It is possible to forward minimum-sized packets at rates of hundreds of Mbps using commodity hardware and Linux. The authors had a preference for the Click Modular Router platform due its...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
Podcasts
WLANs = Counter Intuitive
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about some of the counter intuitive issues concerning of Wireless LANs. Many things in life are simple, easy, and just make sense. Take simple arithmetic. Two...
Provided by Wireless LAN Professionals
-
White Papers
Inline Bandwidth Measurement Techniques for Gigabit Networks
Jan 2008
The authors introduce an inline measurement method that can overcome difficulties in measurement task in high-speed network environment, such as short packet transmission intervals and Interrupt...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
-
Podcasts
Why Oracle Developed Network Virtualization
Feb 2012
In this podcast, the speaker explains how figuring out the engineering to manage network traffic for multiple Oracle zones across a single Network Interface Card (NIC) naturally led to the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Full-System Critical Path Analysis
Jun 2008
Many interesting workloads today are limited not by CPU processing power but by the interactions between the CPU, memory system, I/O devices, and the complex software that ties all the components...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Modelling and Optimization of Power Consumption in Wireless Access Networks
Apr 2011
In this paper, the power consumption for five different wireless technologies, namely mobile WiMAX, fixed WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA and LTE is investigated based on the parameter assumptions for the five...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Sangoma Signaling and Media Gateway (SMG): BRI (ISDN) Interface Card Brings Carrier-Grade Thinking to Your Enterprise
Aug 2008
This paper is the first in a series of white papers that will introduce and explore several mature, open source VoIP technologies that may not be well known, but are worthy of serious...
Provided by Sangoma Technologies
-
White Papers
Modelling and Optimization of Power Consumption in Wireless Access Networks
Apr 2011
In this paper, the power consumption for five different wireless technologies, namely mobile WiMAX, fixed WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA and LTE is investigated based on the parameter assumptions for the five...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Full-System Critical Path Analysis
Jun 2008
Many interesting workloads today are limited not by CPU processing power but by the interactions between the CPU, memory system, I/O devices, and the complex software that ties all the components...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
Podcasts
Why Oracle Developed Network Virtualization
Feb 2012
In this podcast, the speaker explains how figuring out the engineering to manage network traffic for multiple Oracle zones across a single Network Interface Card (NIC) naturally led to the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Inline Bandwidth Measurement Techniques for Gigabit Networks
Jan 2008
The authors introduce an inline measurement method that can overcome difficulties in measurement task in high-speed network environment, such as short packet transmission intervals and Interrupt...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
-
Podcasts
WLANs = Counter Intuitive
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about some of the counter intuitive issues concerning of Wireless LANs. Many things in life are simple, easy, and just make sense. Take simple arithmetic. Two...
Provided by Wireless LAN Professionals
-
White Papers
Performance Comparison Between the Click Modular Router and the NetFPGA Router
Sep 2011
It is possible to forward minimum-sized packets at rates of hundreds of Mbps using commodity hardware and Linux. The authors had a preference for the Click Modular Router platform due its...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
Integrated Circuit of CMOS DC-DC Buck Converter With Differential Active Inductor
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new design of DC-DC Buck Converter (BC), which the spiral inductor is replaced by a differential gyrator with capacitor load (gyrator-C) implemented in 0.18um...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
Power-Proxying on the NIC: A Case Study With the Gnutella File-Sharing Protocol
Dec 2006
Edge devices such as desktop and laptop computers constitute a majority of the devices connected to the Internet today. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing applications generally require edge devices...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Smart-NICs: Power Proxying for Reduced Power Consumption in Network Edge Devices
Feb 2008
The number of edge devices connected to the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate. To maintain network connectivity, the majority of these devices remain completely powered on when idle, wasting...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
A Resource Efficient Content Inspection System for Next Generation Smart NICs
Aug 2008
The aggregate power consumption of the Internet is increasing at an alarming rate, due in part to the rapid increase in the number of connected edge devices such as desktop PCs. Despite being left...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Distributed Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Random Access
Aug 2008
The aggregate capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks can be substantially increased if each wireless node is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) and each NIC operates over a...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Logical Topology Design and Interface Assignment for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2006
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each interface...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Joint Logical Topology Design, Interface Assignment, Channel Allocation, and Routing for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2007
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each NIC operates on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
On a NIC's Operating System, Schedulers and High-Performance Networking Applications
Mar 2007
Today's modern high-end Network Interface Cards (NICs) are equipped with an onboard CPU. In most cases, these CPU's are only used by the vendor and are operated by a proprietary OS, which makes...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
Tools & Templates
Systems Optimization Self Assessment
Aug 2011
Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. driving out cost and improving service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization self assessment.
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Ecommerce Hosting Provider Drastically Cuts Server Provisioning Costs Using Virtualized InfiniBand-Based Solution and VMWare
Nov 2008
One of the top-five ecommerce hosting operations, and global 500company, this company caters to several vertical industries. Their challenge is with increased demands for resources and greater...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
-
White Papers
MESURE Tool to Benchmark Java Card Platforms
Aug 2009
The advent of the Java Card standard has been a major turning point in smart card technology. With the growing acceptance of this standard, understanding the performance behavior of these...
Provided by INRIA
-
White Papers
Service Cloaking and Authentication at Data Link Layer
Apr 2008
This paper discusses that there is significant benefit in providing stronger security at lower layers of the network stack for hosts connected to a network. It claims to reduce the attack...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Interaction-Aware Energy Management for Wireless Network Cards
Jun 2008
Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNICs) are part of every portable device, where efficient energy management plays a significant role in extending the device's battery life. The goal of efficient...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental Research and Education
Jun 2007
The evaluation of new network server architectures is usually performed experimentally using either a simulator or a hardware prototype. Accurate simulation of the hardware-software interface...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: Prototyping Network Interfaces
May 2007
RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC). It was created as an open platform for public use and is freely available for research and education. It...
Provided by Rice University
-
White Papers
Advanced Flow-Control Mechanisms for the Sockets Direct Protocol Over InfiniBand
May 2007
The Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is an industry standard to allow existing TCP/IP applications to be executed on high-speed networks such as InfiniBand (IB). Like many other high-speed networks,...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
Automatic Path Migration Over InfiniBand: Early Experiences
Jan 2007
High computational power of commodity PCs combined with the emergence of low latency and high bandwidth interconnects has escalated the trends of cluster computing. Clusters with InfiniBand are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Wireless Device Identification With Radiometric Signatures
Aug 2008
The authors design, implement, and evaluate a technique to identify the source Network Interface Card (NIC) of an IEEE 802.11 frame through passive radio-frequency analysis. This technique, called...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Crossbow: From Hardware Virtualized NICs to Virtualized Networks
Aug 2009
This paper describes a new architecture for achieving net-work virtualization using Virtual NICs (VNICs) as the building blocks. The VNICs can be associated with dedicated and independent hardware...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
-
White Papers
Accelerated Virtual Switching With Programmable NICs for Scalable Data Center Networking
Sep 2010
Recently virtual switches in data center hosts have been employed to interconnect Virtual Machines (VMs) within data center networks. Such a virtual network layer, however, faces performance...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
3G Converged-NICs: A Platform for Server I/O to Converged Networks
Jun 2010
Infrastructure consolidation is a key data center initiative because it simplifies operations and saves money. That's why IT organizations routinely standardize infrastructure to consolidate...
Provided by Broadcom
-
White Papers
Network Interface Cards as First-Class Citizens
Feb 2009
Network performance has improved by over an order-of-magnitude in the past decade. While, the overall system architecture itself has made modification attempts to match such growth, these changes...
Provided by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
-
White Papers
Wake-On-LAN (WOL) Support on Dell Servers
Oct 2007
This paper provides step-by-step instructions for using Wake-On-LAN (WOL) with Dell Servers. Wake-On-LAN allows a server to be remotely powered on. Wake-On-LAN technology resides in a server's...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Sangoma Signaling and Media Gateway (SMG): BRI (ISDN) Interface Card Brings Carrier-Grade Thinking to Your Enterprise
Aug 2008
This paper is the first in a series of white papers that will introduce and explore several mature, open source VoIP technologies that may not be well known, but are worthy of serious...
Provided by Sangoma Technologies
-
White Papers
An Efficient Buffer Management in a Network Interface Card
Jul 2006
This paper proposes a dynamic packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is to handle high-speed data streams, more than 10 Gb/s, in...
Provided by Mississippi State University
-
White Papers
Switch Virtual Interface for Cisco Integrated Services Routers
Sep 2007
This paper provides an overview of the Switch Virtual Interface (SVI) for Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Cisco offers three types of integrated switching modules for the modular Cisco 3800,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
Oct 2007
With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to...
Provided by Solarflare Communications
-
Resource Center
Choosing the Right Network Adapter Can Help Boost Reliability and Productivity for Your Business
Jun 2006
Use this helpful online tool to determine which Intel® PRO Network Adapters are suitable for your servers and desktop computers. Just click through to the Intel PRO Network Adapter Selector tool,...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Home and Small Office Network Topologies
Jun 2001
Home and small office networks can be set up in a variety of configurations. The following factors can affect the ultimate network configuration: Equipment availability and cost—In many cases,...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Tools & Templates
Systems Optimization Self Assessment
Aug 2011
Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. driving out cost and improving service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization self assessment.
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Wake-On-LAN (WOL) Support on Dell Servers
Oct 2007
This paper provides step-by-step instructions for using Wake-On-LAN (WOL) with Dell Servers. Wake-On-LAN allows a server to be remotely powered on. Wake-On-LAN technology resides in a server's...
Provided by Dell
-
Resource Center
Choosing the Right Network Adapter Can Help Boost Reliability and Productivity for Your Business
Jun 2006
Use this helpful online tool to determine which Intel® PRO Network Adapters are suitable for your servers and desktop computers. Just click through to the Intel PRO Network Adapter Selector tool,...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Network Interface Cards as First-Class Citizens
Feb 2009
Network performance has improved by over an order-of-magnitude in the past decade. While, the overall system architecture itself has made modification attempts to match such growth, these changes...
Provided by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
-
White Papers
3G Converged-NICs: A Platform for Server I/O to Converged Networks
Jun 2010
Infrastructure consolidation is a key data center initiative because it simplifies operations and saves money. That's why IT organizations routinely standardize infrastructure to consolidate...
Provided by Broadcom
-
White Papers
Accelerated Virtual Switching With Programmable NICs for Scalable Data Center Networking
Sep 2010
Recently virtual switches in data center hosts have been employed to interconnect Virtual Machines (VMs) within data center networks. Such a virtual network layer, however, faces performance...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Crossbow: From Hardware Virtualized NICs to Virtualized Networks
Aug 2009
This paper describes a new architecture for achieving net-work virtualization using Virtual NICs (VNICs) as the building blocks. The VNICs can be associated with dedicated and independent hardware...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
-
White Papers
Wireless Device Identification With Radiometric Signatures
Aug 2008
The authors design, implement, and evaluate a technique to identify the source Network Interface Card (NIC) of an IEEE 802.11 frame through passive radio-frequency analysis. This technique, called...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Automatic Path Migration Over InfiniBand: Early Experiences
Jan 2007
High computational power of commodity PCs combined with the emergence of low latency and high bandwidth interconnects has escalated the trends of cluster computing. Clusters with InfiniBand are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Advanced Flow-Control Mechanisms for the Sockets Direct Protocol Over InfiniBand
May 2007
The Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) is an industry standard to allow existing TCP/IP applications to be executed on high-speed networks such as InfiniBand (IB). Like many other high-speed networks,...
Provided by Ohio State University
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: Prototyping Network Interfaces
May 2007
RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC). It was created as an open platform for public use and is freely available for research and education. It...
Provided by Rice University
-
White Papers
RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental Research and Education
Jun 2007
The evaluation of new network server architectures is usually performed experimentally using either a simulator or a hardware prototype. Accurate simulation of the hardware-software interface...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Interaction-Aware Energy Management for Wireless Network Cards
Jun 2008
Wireless Network Interface Cards (WNICs) are part of every portable device, where efficient energy management plays a significant role in extending the device's battery life. The goal of efficient...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Service Cloaking and Authentication at Data Link Layer
Apr 2008
This paper discusses that there is significant benefit in providing stronger security at lower layers of the network stack for hosts connected to a network. It claims to reduce the attack...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
MESURE Tool to Benchmark Java Card Platforms
Aug 2009
The advent of the Java Card standard has been a major turning point in smart card technology. With the growing acceptance of this standard, understanding the performance behavior of these...
Provided by INRIA
-
Case Studies
Ecommerce Hosting Provider Drastically Cuts Server Provisioning Costs Using Virtualized InfiniBand-Based Solution and VMWare
Nov 2008
One of the top-five ecommerce hosting operations, and global 500company, this company caters to several vertical industries. Their challenge is with increased demands for resources and greater...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
-
White Papers
Home and Small Office Network Topologies
Jun 2001
Home and small office networks can be set up in a variety of configurations. The following factors can affect the ultimate network configuration: Equipment availability and cost—In many cases,...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
On a NIC's Operating System, Schedulers and High-Performance Networking Applications
Mar 2007
Today's modern high-end Network Interface Cards (NICs) are equipped with an onboard CPU. In most cases, these CPU's are only used by the vendor and are operated by a proprietary OS, which makes...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
White Papers
Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration
Oct 2007
With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to...
Provided by Solarflare Communications
-
White Papers
Switch Virtual Interface for Cisco Integrated Services Routers
Sep 2007
This paper provides an overview of the Switch Virtual Interface (SVI) for Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Cisco offers three types of integrated switching modules for the modular Cisco 3800,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
-
White Papers
Joint Logical Topology Design, Interface Assignment, Channel Allocation, and Routing for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2007
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each NIC operates on...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Logical Topology Design and Interface Assignment for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Aug 2006
A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs). Each interface...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
Distributed Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Random Access
Aug 2008
The aggregate capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks can be substantially increased if each wireless node is equipped with multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) and each NIC operates over a...
Provided by University of British Columbia
-
White Papers
An Efficient Buffer Management in a Network Interface Card
Jul 2006
This paper proposes a dynamic packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is to handle high-speed data streams, more than 10 Gb/s, in...
Provided by Mississippi State University
-
White Papers
A Resource Efficient Content Inspection System for Next Generation Smart NICs
Aug 2008
The aggregate power consumption of the Internet is increasing at an alarming rate, due in part to the rapid increase in the number of connected edge devices such as desktop PCs. Despite being left...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Smart-NICs: Power Proxying for Reduced Power Consumption in Network Edge Devices
Feb 2008
The number of edge devices connected to the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate. To maintain network connectivity, the majority of these devices remain completely powered on when idle, wasting...
Provided by University of Florida
-
White Papers
Power-Proxying on the NIC: A Case Study With the Gnutella File-Sharing Protocol
Dec 2006
Edge devices such as desktop and laptop computers constitute a majority of the devices connected to the Internet today. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing applications generally require edge devices...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Integrated Circuit of CMOS DC-DC Buck Converter With Differential Active Inductor
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new design of DC-DC Buck Converter (BC), which the spiral inductor is replaced by a differential gyrator with capacitor load (gyrator-C) implemented in 0.18um...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
Performance Comparison Between the Click Modular Router and the NetFPGA Router
Sep 2011
It is possible to forward minimum-sized packets at rates of hundreds of Mbps using commodity hardware and Linux. The authors had a preference for the Click Modular Router platform due its...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
Podcasts
WLANs = Counter Intuitive
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers discuss about some of the counter intuitive issues concerning of Wireless LANs. Many things in life are simple, easy, and just make sense. Take simple arithmetic. Two...
Provided by Wireless LAN Professionals
-
White Papers
Inline Bandwidth Measurement Techniques for Gigabit Networks
Jan 2008
The authors introduce an inline measurement method that can overcome difficulties in measurement task in high-speed network environment, such as short packet transmission intervals and Interrupt...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
-
Podcasts
Why Oracle Developed Network Virtualization
Feb 2012
In this podcast, the speaker explains how figuring out the engineering to manage network traffic for multiple Oracle zones across a single Network Interface Card (NIC) naturally led to the...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Full-System Critical Path Analysis
Jun 2008
Many interesting workloads today are limited not by CPU processing power but by the interactions between the CPU, memory system, I/O devices, and the complex software that ties all the components...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Modelling and Optimization of Power Consumption in Wireless Access Networks
Apr 2011
In this paper, the power consumption for five different wireless technologies, namely mobile WiMAX, fixed WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA and LTE is investigated based on the parameter assumptions for the five...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Sangoma Signaling and Media Gateway (SMG): BRI (ISDN) Interface Card Brings Carrier-Grade Thinking to Your Enterprise
Aug 2008
This paper is the first in a series of white papers that will introduce and explore several mature, open source VoIP technologies that may not be well known, but are worthy of serious...
Provided by Sangoma Technologies
