An analytic model of hierarchical mass storage systems with network-attached storage devices

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 180-189

  Menascé, Daniel A ^a   Pentakalos, Odysseas I ^b   Yesha, Yelena ^b  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC TAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; QUEUEING THEORY;

APPROXIMATE MEAN VALUE ANALYSIS; CACHE; DATA PATHS; HIERARCHICAL MASS STORAGE SYSTEMS; NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE DEVICES; QUEUING NETWORK MODELS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030146263     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233008.233041     Document Type: Article

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