RACE: A robust adaptive caching strategy for buffer cache

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-40

  Zhu, Yifeng ^a   Jiang, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffering; Input output; Main memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; ROBUST CONTROL;

BUFFER CACHE; CACHE MANAGEMENT; ROBUST ADAPTIVE CACHING STRATEGY;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 36849001273     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70788     Document Type: Article

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