Two emerging serial storage interfaces for supporting digital libraries: serial storage architecture (SSA) and fiber channel-arbitrated loop (FC-AL)

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-203

  Du, David H C ^a,b,c   Chang, Tai Sheng ^a   Hsieh, Jenwei ^a   Shim, Sangyup ^a   Wang, Yuewei ^a,d  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b IXMICRO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL STORAGE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FIBER CHANNEL ARBITRATED LOOP; SERIAL STORAGE ARCHITECTURE; SERIAL STORAGE INTERFACES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033898217     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009662702317     Document Type: Article

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