An Empirical Study of a Wide-Area Distributed File System

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 200-222

  Spasojevic, Mirjana ^a,c   Satyanarayanan, M ^b  

^a Transarc Corporation

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrew; D.4.3 Operating Systems : File Systems Management distributed file systems; D.4.8 Operating Systems : Performance measurements; Design; Experimentation; Internet; Measurement; Performance; Scalability; Usage; Wide area; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; PERFORMANCE; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

ANDREW FILE SYSTEM; FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; WIDE AREA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030149435     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227695.227698     Document Type: Article

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