On application-level approaches to avoiding TCP throughput collapse in cluster-based storage systems

Proceedings of the 2nd International Petascale Data Storage Workshop, PDSW '07, held in Conjunction with Supercomputing '07

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-4

  Krevat, Elie ^a   Vasudevan, Vijay ^a   Phanishayee, Amar ^a   Andersen, David G ^a   Ganger, Gregory R ^a   Gibson, Garth A ^a   Seshan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster based storage; Incast; TCP

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER-BASED STORAGE; INCAST; NETWORK LINKS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; TCP; TCP THROUGHPUTS;

COMPUTERS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 57749086946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1374596.1374598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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