Design and development of Ethernet-based storage area network protocol

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 9 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 1271-1283

  Wang, Wilson Yong Hong ^a   Yeo, Heng Ngi ^a   Zhu, Yao Long ^a   Chong, Tow Chong ^a   Chai, Teck Yoong ^b   Zhou, Luying ^b   Bitwas, Jit ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ethernet; HyperSCSI; Network Storage; Protocol; SAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ETHERNET; HYPERSCSI; NETWORK STORAGE; SAN;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 33748934544     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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