SPEK: A storage performance Evaluation kernel module for block-level storage systems under faulty conditions

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-148

  He, Xubin ^a,c   Zhang, Ming ^b   Yang, Qing ^b  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data storage; Degraded performance; Disk I O; Measurement techniques; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; DISK I/O; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 24344462720     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2005.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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