A new disk I/O model of virtualized cloud environment

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1129-1138

  Li, Dingding ^a   Liao, Xiaofei ^a   Jin, Hai ^a   Zhou, Bingbing ^b   Zhang, Qi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

asynchronous I O; file system; synchronous I O; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS I/O; ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION; CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; FILE SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONOUS I/O; SYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

HARDWARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84877725207     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.321     Document Type: Article

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