On the effect of link failures in fibre channel storage area networks

Proceedings - International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, I-SPAN 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 102-111

  Molero, Xavier ^a   Silla, Federico ^a   Santonja, Vicente ^a   Duato, Jose ^a  

^a Universitat Politkcnica de Valhcia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY;

DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; FIBER CHANNEL; FIBRE CHANNEL STORAGE AREA NETWORKS; IN-FIBER; LINK FAILURES; MULTIPLE SERVERS; NETWORK SIZE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS; STORAGE MODELLING;

VIRTUAL STORAGE;

EID: 47249100548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPAN.2000.900269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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