Random redundant storage in disk arrays: Complexity of retrieval problems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1210-1214

  Aerts, Joep ^a   Korst, Jan ^a   Spieksma, Frits ^b   Verhaegh, Wim ^a   Woeginger, Gerhard ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity analysis; Load balancing; Random redundant storage; Video servers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HARD DISK STORAGE; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

DISK ARRAY; LOAD BALANCING; MULTIMEDIA SERVER; RANDOM REDUNDANT STORAGE; TIME-BASED LOAD BALANCING; VIDEO SERVER;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0141725570     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1228515     Document Type: Article

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