On multi-level exclusive caching: Offline optimality and why promotions are better than demotions

FAST 2008 - 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-65

  Gill, Binny S ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

CACHE MANAGEMENT POLICIES; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; MULTI-LEVEL CACHING; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC FILTERING; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 85030695971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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