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SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Group-Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers
One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
Athanassios Tsiolis, Mary K. Vernon
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Managing Server Load in Global Memory Systems
Geoffrey M. Voelker, Hervé A. Jamrozik, Mar...
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Informed Multi-Process Prefetching and Caching
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks
Benchmarks are important because they provide a means for users and researchers to characterize how their workloads will perform on different systems and different system architec...
Keith A. Smith, Margo I. Seltzer
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Cache Behavior of Network Protocols
In this paper we present a performance study of memory reference behavior in network protocol processing, using an Internet-based protocol stack implemented in the x-kernel runnin...
Erich M. Nahum, David J. Yates, James F. Kurose, D...
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Performance Issues of Enterprise Level Web Proxies
Enterprise level web proxies relay world-wide web traffic between private networks and the Internet. They improve security, save network bandwidth, and reduce network latency. Wh...
Carlos Maltzahn, Kathy J. Richardson, Dirk Grunwal...
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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File Server Scaling with Network-Attached Secure Disks
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Queue Management for Explicit Rate Based Congestion Control
Rate based congestion control has been considered desirable, both to deal with the high bandwidth-delay products of today's high speed networks, and to match the needs of eme...
Qingming Ma, K. K. Ramakrishnan
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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Analyzing Stability in Wide-Area Network Performance
The Internet is a very large scale, complex, dynamical system that is hard to model and analyze. In this paper, we develop and analyze statistical models for the observed end-to-e...
Hari Balakrishnan, Mark Stemm, Srinivasan Seshan, ...