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Storage I/O has become a performance bottleneck for large-scale computation and storage systems. Characterization of I/O network traffic has been the observed self-similarity nowadays. In this paper, basing on the reviews of the origins of this self-similarity, we study how Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) models can be exploited for self-similar I/O behaviors of virtual storage systems. We then present the SPN models and simplifying processes of file I/O and multimedia I/O for origination node, destination node and communication link. Finally, we propose the self-similarity simulation methodologies. Analysis results show that without self-similar I/O scenario outperforms self-similar I/O scenario both for file I/O and multimedia I/O, and show how the ratio of multimedia/file I/O and the queue capability can affect the observed storage I/O self-similarity.
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Liu, Z., Jiang, B., Zhao, Z., Jiang, Y. (2008). Modeling and Simulation of Self-similar Storage I/O. In: Wu, S., Yang, L.T., Xu, T.L. (eds) Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68083-3_26
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