On maximizing iSCSI throughput using multiple connections with automatic parallelism tuning

Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, SNAPI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 11-16

  Inoue, Fumito ^a   Ohsaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Nomoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Imase, Makoto ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TUNING;

DATA DELIVERIES; LOW COSTS; MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS; NETWORK DELAYS; NETWORK STATUSES; NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURES; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS; TCP CONNECTIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 58049134133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SNAPI.2008.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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