Offloading Socket Processing for Ubiquitous Services*

As digital devices with communication capability become more pervasive, the net-work performance of a corresponding server needs to be improved. In this paper, we present the hardware and software for offloading the socket processing in order to im-prove the network performance of a server. The experimental results showed that the proposed solution could improve the network performance of a typical solution signifi-cantly. Furthermore, the proposed solution can provide the binary compatibility with the BSD socket standard such that the existing network programs can be used without modi-fication and/or recompilation