The effect of client caching on file server workloads

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 150-159

  Froese, Kevirz W ^a   Burit, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CACHE PERFORMANCE; CACHING STRATEGY; CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN DECISIONS; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; RECENT RESEARCHES; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871902852     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1996.495458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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