Measurements of a distributed file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
MLICS '95 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing
TCON'95 Proceedings of the USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
Lottery scheduling: flexible proportional-share resource management
OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Disconnected operation for AFS
MLCS Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium on Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium
Experience with disconnected operation in a mobile computing environment
MLCS Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium on Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium
Overcoming the Network Bottleneck in Mobile Computing
WMCSA '94 Proceedings of the 1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
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The emerging demand for mobile computing has created a need for improved file system support for mobile clients. Current file systems with support for mobility provide availability through file replicas cached at the client. However, the wide range in the quality of network connections a mobile client may experience makes cache management a complex task. One important cache management decision is how (and when) modifications that have been made to cached files at a weakly-connected client can and should be propagated back to the file server. This paper presents the results of a trace-driven simulation study of two write-back scheduling policies: a simple statistical policy and a more explicit "reader preference" policy. Emphasis is placed on the interaction between the workload created by loading files demanded by a user and background writes performed to maintain file consistency.