On efficient wear leveling for large-scale flash-memory storage systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1126-1130

  Chang, Li Pin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Consumer electronics; Embedded systems; Flash memory; Memory management; Portable devices; Storage systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

MEMORY MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE CONSERVATION; WEAR-LEVELING PERFORMANCE;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 35248812398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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