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An integrated resource sharing policy for multimedia storage servers based on network-attached disks

Sarhan et al., 2003

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15689263899370628068
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Sarhan N
Das C
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23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. Proceedings.

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In this paper we propose using the network-attached disk (NAD) architecture to design highly scalable and cost-effective multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers. In order to ensure enhanced performance, we propose two schemes, called distributed interval caching (DIC) …
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