Enabling High-Performance Internet-Wide Measurements on Windows

This paper presents analysis of the Windows kernel network stack and designs a novel high-performance NDIS driver platform called IRLstack whose goal is to enable large-scale Internet measurements that require sending billions of packets and managing millions of outstanding connections on inexpensive commodity hardware available to any research lab. Our results show that with just 75% of one modern CPU

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: PAM
• Authors: Matt Smith, Dmitri Loguinov
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Inexpensive Commodity Hardware, Large-scale Internet Measurements, PAM 2010, Windows Kernel Network