A new TCB cache to efficiently manage TCP sessions for web servers
Guangdeng Liao, Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan, Wei Wu, Heeyeol Yu, Steve R. King · 2010
TCP/IP, the most commonly used network protocol, consumes a significant portion of time in Internet servers. While a wide spectrum of studies has been done to reduce its processing overhead such as TOE and Direct Cache Access, most of them did studies solely from the per-packet perspective and concentrated on the packet memory access overhead. They ignored per-session data TCP Control Block (TCB), which poses a challenge in web servers with a large volume of concurrent sessions.