Improving NFS performance over wireless links

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 290-298

  Dube, Rohit ^b   Rais, Cynthia D ^b   Tripathi, Satish K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

File systems; Link level retransmission; Mobile computing; NFS; Performance evaluation; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR COMPENSATION; FILE ORGANIZATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS);

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031100755     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.580425     Document Type: Article

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