Comment on "Issues and challenges in the performance analysis of real disk arrays"

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1103-1104

  Thomasian, Alexander ^a   Liu, Chang ^b  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disk scheduling; Performance analysis; SCAN; SPTF

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244450848     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2005.132     Document Type: Note

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