Everything about Network interface controller

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Network interface controllerA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Body Sensor NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Martini: A Network Interface Controller Chip for High Performance Computing with Distributed PCsCited 5 times
4. Go sideways: TCP offload engineA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Wake-on-LANA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Martini: A Network Interface Controller Chip for High Performance Computing with Distributed PCs

  Konosuke Watanabe, Tomohiro Otsuka, Junichiro Tsuchiya · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 5 citations

• Traffic Optimization with Software-Defined Network Controller on a New User Interface

  Derya Yiltas-Kaplan · 2022 · JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science · 1 citations

• Network interface controller

  · 1993 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 0 citations

• Controller for Network Interface Card on FPGA

  Suchita Kamble, N. N. Mhala · 2012 · International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES) · 0 citations

• Controller for Network Interface Card on FPGA

  Suchita Kamble, N. N. Mhala · 2012 · International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES) · 0 citations

• VLSI-based LAN-controller chip eases uP-to-network interface

  · 1984 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Body Sensor NetworksGuang-Zhong Yang · 2006
• 📕Neuroadaptive SystemsMagdalena Fafrowicz, Tadeusz Marek · 2012
• Data Communications Networking (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking)Behrouz A. Forouzan · 2006
• Trust Management VIan Wakeman · 2011
• 📕Media independent interface · 1987
• 📕Experiences with the Bay Area Gigabit Network TestbedMarjory J. Johnson · 1995
• Location- and context-awarenessThomas Strang · 2005

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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