The growing number of players in Massively Multiplayer Online games puts a heavy load on
the network infrastructure and the general-purpose CPU of the game servers. A game …

For multiplayer games, the performance of the server's Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the
main factor that limits the number of players on the server at the same time. Compared with …

A wide range of networked games send data with very high interarrival-time between
packets and with small payloads in each packet. We call these transmission patterns" thin …

TCP/IP is the predominant communication protocol in modern networks but also one of the
most demanding. Consequently, TCP/IP offload is becoming increasingly popular with …

In times of cloud services and IoT, network protocol processing is a big part of the CPU
utilization today. Foong et al. proposed the rule of thumb for TCP, that a single-core CPU …

Games are on the Internet to stay. Their popularity and use are growing every day, and
some genres such as the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) …

TCP/IP stack is the workhorse protocol of the Internet. The processing of the TCP/IP over
Ethernet is traditionally accomplished by software running on the central processor, CPU or …

We present a de-layered protocol engine for termination of 40Gbps TCP connections using
a reconfigurable FPGA silicon platform. This protocol engine is designed for a planned …

The realization that the network is becoming an important bottleneck in computing clusters
and in the cloud has led in the past years to an increase scrutiny of how networking …

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a connection-oriented data transmission protocol,
and it is also the main communication protocol used for end-to-end data transmission in the …