An analytic performance model of disk arrays
SIGMETRICS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A Performance Evaluation of RAID Architectures
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An analytic behavior model for disk drives with readahead caches and request reordering
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Performance analysis of the RIO multimedia storage system with heterogeneous disk configurations
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Distributed Multimedia and QOS: A Survey
IEEE MultiMedia
JSSPP '02 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Achieving Better Load Balance in Distributed Storage System
PDPTA '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications - Volume 3
Agents Negotiating for Load Balancing of Electricity Use
ICDCS '98 Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays
MASCOTS '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium in Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
System-oriented evaluation of i/o subsystem performance
System-oriented evaluation of i/o subsystem performance
The evolution of storage systems
IBM Systems Journal
QoS-oriented negotiation in disk subsystems
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
SMART: an integrated multi-action advisor for storage systems
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
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The rapid advances in the computer industry allow building larger systems that require mass storage volumes. As storage space increases, its management becomes increasingly difficult. In contemporary enterprise storage systems, performance has developed into a major bottleneck, which negatively affects the overall IT performance. Centralized solutions are often infeasible and thus a distributed solution should be sought. Our novel approach involves incorporating intelligent agents to the storage system, allowing the utilization of a distributed negotiation scheme between agents that act on behalf of the clients who require storage and on behalf of the storage servers within the system. Using a simulation environment which models real settings of a large storage network, we demonstrate the benefits of applying our distributed solution in the storage management domain in terms of client satisfaction, servers' revenue, and overall system performance. Our results show a significant improvement in storage performance when this solution is implemented.