Modeling and simulation of storage area networks

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 307-314

  Molero, Xavier ^a   Silla, Federico ^a   Santonja, Vicente ^a   Duato, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; FAULT TOLERANCE; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPUTER CLUSTERING; DATA-COMMUNICATION; LATENCY VARIATIONS; MODEL AND SIMULATION; OUTPUT PERFORMANCE; SELF-SIMILARITIES; STORAGE AREA NETWORKS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84949795465     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2000.876553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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