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Analysis of TCP/IP Protocol Stack for a Hybrid TCP/IP Offload Engine

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Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3320))

Abstract

TCP/IP, the most popular communication protocol, is processed on a host CPU in traditional computer systems and this imposes heavy loads on the host CPU. Recently TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) technology, which processes TCP/IP on a network adapter instead of the host CPU, has become an important alternative approach to this problem. In this paper, we analyze TCP/IP components that impose high loads on the host CPU by measuring processing times for each function in a TCP/IP protocol stack. Based on these analyses, we propose a hybrid TOE architecture, in which functions imposing high loads on the host CPU are implemented using hardware, and other functions are implemented using software.

This research was supported by the Program for the Training of Graduate Students in Regional Innovation which was conducted by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy of the Korean Government.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, 609-735, Korea

    Soo-Cheol Oh, Hankook Jang & Sang-Hwa Chung

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  1. Nanyang Centre for Supercomputing and Visualisation School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639 798, Singapore

    Kim-Meow Liew

  2. School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide,  

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  3. Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., 50 Nanyang Avenue, N3-1c-10, 639798, Singapore

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  4. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

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  6. Tohoku University ,  

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Oh, SC., Jang, H., Chung, SH. (2004). Analysis of TCP/IP Protocol Stack for a Hybrid TCP/IP Offload Engine. In: Liew, KM., Shen, H., See, S., Cai, W., Fan, P., Horiguchi, S. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies. PDCAT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30501-9_83

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