The Rx Hex [AFS remote procedure call package]

Bachmann, David W.; Honeyman, Peter; Huston, Larry

doi:10.1109/sdne.1994.337776

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Improving NFS performance over wireless links

Dube¹,

Rais

Tripathi

1997

IEEE Trans. Comput.

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NFS is a widely used remote le access protocol that has been tuned to perform well on traditional LANs which exhibit low error rates. Users migrating to mobile-hosts would like to continue to use NFS for remote le accesses. However, low bandwidth and high errorrates degrade performance on mobile-hosts using wireless links thus hindering the use of NFS. In this paper, we present two mechanisms to improve NFS performance over wireless links : an aggressive NFS client and link-level retransmissions. Our experiments show that these mechanisms improve throughput by up to 200%, which brings the performance to within 5% of that obtained in zero error conditions.

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Improving NFS performance over wireless links

Dube¹,

Rais

Tripathi

1997

IEEE Trans. Comput.

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Communications and consistency in mobile file systems

Honeyman

Huston²

1995

IEEE Pers. Commun.

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To overcome availability, latency, bandwidth, and cost barriers of mobile networks, mobile clients of distributed file systems switch between connected and disconnected modes of operation. Lying between these are modes of operation that refine the consistency semantics of cached files, allowing a mobile client to select a mode appropriate for the the prevailing network conditions. Clients can take advantage of network opportunities unsuitable for connected operation, obtaining improved performance, more effective sharing, and more stringent consistency guarantees as a result.

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