Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.32 Conclusions - predictions about storage systems -- 2.32.1 Resurgence in shared storage, but Fibre-Channel fades -- 3 Disk drive data placement and scheduling -- 3.1 The organization of Hard Disk Drives - HDDs -- 3.2 Internal organization of files in UNIX -- 3.3 Review of disk arm scheduling -- 3.3.1 Implementation of SATF -- 3.3.2 Disk performance studies by Windsor Hsu and Alan Jay Smith at IBM ARC -- 3.3.3 Linux support for disk scheduling -- 3.4 Disk scheduling for mixed workloads -- 3.5 Real time disk scheduling for multimedia -- 3.6 Storage virtualization -- 3.7 File placement on disk -- 3.7.1 Anticipatory disk arm placement -- 3.8 Disks with Shingled Magnetic Recording - SMR -- 3.9 Review of analyses of disk scheduling methods -- 3.10 Analytic studies of disk storage -- 3.11 Analysis of a zoned disk with the FCFS scheduling -- 3.11.1 Disk service time in zoned disks with FCFS scheduling -- 3.12 Performance analysis of the SCAN policy -- 3.13 Analysis of the SATF policy -- 3.13.1 Preliminary investigation of SATF -- 3.13.2 First method for the analysis of SATF -- 3.13.3 Second method for the analysis of SATF -- 3.14 Conclusions -- 4 Mirrored &amp -- hybrid arrays -- 4.1 Introduction to mirrored and hybrid disk arrays -- 4.2 Mirrored and hybrid disk array organizations -- 4.2.1 Basic Mirroring - BM -- 4.2.2 Group Rotate Declustering - GRD -- 4.2.3 Interleaved Declustering - ID -- 4.2.4 Chained Declustering - CD -- 4.2.5 Dual striping -- 4.2.6 Logical volume and automatic storage management and GPFS -- 4.2.7 LSI Logic RAID -- 4.2.8 Adaptive disk arrays -- 4.2.9 SSPiRAL (Survivable Storage using Parity in Redundant Array Layout) -- 4.2.10 B-code -- 4.2.11 Weaver codes -- 4.2.12 Robust, Efficient, Scalable, Autonomous, Reliable - RESAR -- 4.2.13 Multiway placement -- 4.2.14 Classification of mirrored and hybrid disk arrays…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.4.3 Interference Cancellation: Coding Techniques 129 -- 6.5 Intra-tier Interference Mitigation 130 -- 6.5.1 Strategic Game for Collocated Femtocells 131 -- 6.5.2 Gibbs Sampler for Collocated Femtocells 132 -- 6.6 Interference Mitigation for Machine-to-Machine Communications 136 -- 6.6.1 Background of Compressive Sensing 138 -- 6.6.2 SMRM for Femtocells 138 -- 6.6.3 Compressive Sensing for the Spectrum Map Construction 140 -- 6.6.4 Performance Evaluations 140 -- 6.7 Conclusion 141 -- References 142 -- 7 Game Theoretic Approach to Distributed Bandwidth Allocation in OFDMA-based Self-organizing Femtocell Networks 145 -- 7.1 Introduction 145 -- 7.2 Distributed Bandwidth Allocation 146 -- 7.3 Convergence Analysis 150 -- 7.4 Choice of Utility Function and its Parameters 152 -- 7.5 Simulation Results 155 -- 7.5.1 Convergence Studies 156 -- 7.5.2 Bandwidth Allocation and Network Tuning 156 -- 7.6 Extensions and Discussions 159 -- 7.7 Conclusion 162 -- Acknowledgement 162 -- References 162 -- Part II Mobility and Handover Management -- 8 Mobility Management and Performance Optimization in Next Generation Heterogeneous Mobile Networks 167 -- 8.1 Introduction 167 -- 8.2 Overview of Mobility Management in RRC-connected State 168 -- 8.3 Mobility Robustness Optimization 171 -- 8.4 Mobility Load Balancing Optimization 176 -- 8.4.1 Related Works 177 -- 8.4.2 Problem Description 177 -- 8.4.3 Load Balancing Algorithm with Penalized Handovers 180 -- 8.4.4 Numerical Examples 182 -- 8.5 Cooperation of MRO and MLB 185 -- 8.5.1 Achieve Load Balance by Adjusting CI O 186 -- 8.5.2 Coordination Rules between MRO and MLB 186 -- 8.5.3 Jointly Consider MRO and MLB 187 -- 8.5.4 Simulation Results 188 -- 8.6 Mobility Enhancement for Femtocells 192 -- 8.7 Conclusion 194 -- Acknowledgements 195 -- References 195 -- 9 Connected-mode Mobility in LTE Heterogeneous Networks 199 -- 9.1 Introduction 199 -- 9.2 Cell Selection and Problem Statement 200 -- 9.3 Simulation Methodology 202 -- 9.4 Handover Modelling 207.…”

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