Adaptive Disk Spin-down Policies for Mobile Computers

Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing, MLICS 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages

  Douglis, Fred ^a   Krishnan, P ^b   Bershad, Brian ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

ACCESS PATTERNS; DISK SPIN DOWNS; FIXED PERIOD; FIXED THRESHOLD; MOBILE COMPUTERS; SPIN-DOWN; USAGE PATTERNS;

SPIN FLUCTUATIONS;

EID: 77953845567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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