Paper Info
Title
Queueing Analysis of the IBM 2314 Disk Storage Facility
Abstract
In this paper the use of the techniques of queueing theory in analyzing the performance of a mass storage device in a real-time environment is demonstrated; concern is with the tradeoff experienced in practice between throughput of a stochastic service device and the response time for each service request. For concreteness, the analysis is applied to the IBM 2314 disk storage facility. The results are presented in a series of graphs showing the file system response time versus the throughput for several distributions of record length and arm movement. The queueing model and the theoretical tools used are described in sufficient detail to permit the reader to apply the techniques to other systems. In particular, any disk whose seek time characteristic can be approximated by a piecewise linear continuous function may be analyzed by the methods presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
1968
10.1145/321479.321484
J. ACM
Keywords
DocType
Volume
response time,stochastic service device,queueing model,numerical inversion of laplace transforms,disk storage,queueing analysis,arm movement,queueing theory,file system response time,Disk Storage Facility,time-sharing systems,disk storage facility,mass storage device,response time distribution,m/g/1 queue in tandem,pollaczek-khintchine formula,rem-time systems,Queueing Analysis,file system performance,service request,ibm 2314,time characteristic
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0004-5411
33
PageRank 
References 
Authors
19.02
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Abate122693.40
Harvey Dubner24128.18
Sheldon B. Weinberg33319.02