Scheduling Write Backs for Weakly-Connected Mobile Clients
TOOLS '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools
Energy-Efficient Adaptive Wireless Network Design
ISCC '00 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2000)
Thanks for the memory: Cooperative autonomous agent search in uncertain environments
Computers in Human Behavior
File system virtual appliances: Portable file system implementations
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Dynamic performance profiling of cloud caches
Proceedings of the 4th annual Symposium on Cloud Computing
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System designers have traditionally treated the network as an inexhaustible resource, focusing their efforts on optimizing CPU and storage usage. For instance, the popular NFS file system [8] supports diskless operation, thereby avoiding use of local secondary storage at the expense of increased network usage. But in mobile computing, it is the network, rather than CPU or storage, that will be the scarce resource. The time has come when we must treat the network as a first-class resource, expending the CPU and storage resources necessary to use it intelligently. In this paper we argue that prescient caching and smart scheduling are key techniques/or overcoming the network bottleneck. We use the Coda file system [9] as a case study to substantiate our position.