A caching strategy to improve iSCSI performance
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
1-1-2002
Abstract
iSCSI is one of the most recent standards that allows SCSI protocols to be carried out over IP networks. However, to encapsulate the SCSI protocol over IP requires a significant amount of overhead traffic for SCSI commands transfers and handshaking over the Internet. In this paper, we propose a caching scheme, called iCache, to improve the iSCSI performance. iCache uses a log disk along with a piece of non-volatile RAM to cache the iSCSI traffic. Through an efficient caching algorithm, iCache can significantly improve performance over current iSCSI systems. Numerical results using popular benchmark program and real world trace have shown dramatic performance gain.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
Volume
2002-January
Citation/Publisher Attribution
He, Xubin, Qing Yang, and Ming Zhang. "A caching strategy to improve iSCSI performance." Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2002-January, (2002): 278-285. doi: 10.1109/LCN.2002.1181794.