A caching strategy to improve iSCSI performance

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 278-285

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

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Computer networks; Internet; IP networks; Protocols; Read write memory; Storage area networks; Switches; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SWITCHES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; CACHING ALGORITHM; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; IP NETWORKS; NON-VOLATILE RAMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS; TCPIP;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33749419755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2002.1181794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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