The Virtual Interface Architecture
Dave Dunning, Greg Regnier, G. McAlpine, David S. Cameron, B. Shubert, François Berry, A.M. Merritt, E. Gronke, Connor Dodd · IEEE Micro · 1998
This protected, zero-copy, user-level network interface architecture reduces the system overhead for sending and receiving messages between high-performance CPU/memory subsystems and networks to less than 10 microseconds when integrated in silicon.