Paper Info
Title
Optical Storage Area Networks
Abstract
Storage area networks (SANs) are a promising technology to efficiently manage the ever-increasing amount of business data. Extending SANs over large distances becomes essential to facilitate data protection and sharing storage resources over large geographic distances. A WDM metropolitan ring network is examined as a suitable extension for SANs where it is shown that sectioning the ring can help deal with traffic asymmetry and hot node (SAN node on ring) scenarios. Several network architectures are studied: One of the architectures accommodates a single SAN and its mirror connected through a sectioning link. Another architecture accommodates two pairs of SANs and their mirrors with sectioning links connecting each pair. Issues investigated include impact of the number of co-existing IP (non SAN) nodes; traffic models: Poisson and self-similar; slotted regime: fixed-size (FS), variable-size (VS) and supersize (SS) slot schemes; MAC protocol design; handling traffic asymmetry and performance measures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-01524-3_11
COST 237 Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
extending sans,san node,sectioning link,non san,wdm metropolitan ring network,optical storage area networks,business data,traffic model,single san,architectures accommodates,traffic asymmetry,optical storage,data protection,storage area network,ring network,network architecture
Wavelength-division multiplexing,Network architecture,Computer network,Protocol design,Optical storage,Engineering,Ring network,Business data,Storage area network
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5412
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi13712.43
J. M.H. Elmirghani2591110.47