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Reliability-Aware Iterative Detection Scheme (RAID) for Distributed IDM Space-Time Codes in Relay Systems

April 8, 2013 12:00am PDT

In this paper, distributed Interleave-Division Multiplexing Space-Time Codes (dIDM-STCs) are applied for multi-user two-hop Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay networks. In case of decoding errors at...

Provided by: EURASIP

Discussion Threads

DIY SAN: Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and iSCSI target

January 17, 2013 8:47am PST

DIY SAN: Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and iSCSI target article root RAID Controllers, SCSI Reservations, and Networks? Nice article, John, but I do have a few questions: 1. In order to use...

7 Started by AstroCreep  |  Latest comment by ascar.omarov@...

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Installing vSphere on Cisco UCS C-Series servers

December 28, 2012 3:49pm PST

Follow along as Lauren Malhoit writes about the Cisco UCS C-Series rackmount servers, which offer many of the same advantages as blade servers but at a more SMB-friendly price.

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IDO: Intelligent Data Outsourcing with Improved RAID Reconstruction Performance in Large-Scale Data Centers

November 5, 2012 12:00am PST

Dealing with disk failures has become an increasingly common task for system administrators in the face of high disk failure rates in large-scale data centers consisting of hundreds of thousands...

Provided by: Xiamen Sharelink Technology Co.,LTD

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The best peripherals for Mac business users

September 26, 2012 10:45am PDT

Erik Eckel lists the best peripherals that work for Mac-based organizations, based on his experience. Do you have other suggestions? See what you think of these picks.

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R-Barrier: Rapid Barrier for Software RAID Cache Using Hints From Journaling Filesystem

September 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

While adopting cache in software RAID brings performance benefit, it can cause data loss at power failure which results in the broken file-system consistency. Though I/O Barrier can be used to...

Provided by: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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C-Codes: Cyclic Lowest-Density MDS Array Codes Constructed Using Starters for RAID 6

August 24, 2012 12:00am PDT

Array codes are a class of linear codes whose information and parity bits are placed in a two-dimensional (or multidimensional) array rather than a one-dimensional vector. A common property of...

Provided by: Tsihai

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10 things I've learned from working in IT

August 12, 2012 5:15am PDT

When you've been in IT for awhile, you pick up all sorts of random knowledge. Jack Wallen shares a few highlights from almost 20 years in the field.

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Acronis image backup software enables you to quickly recover clients

July 31, 2012 11:25am PDT

Despite its drawbacks, IT consultant Erik Eckel says Acronis Backup & Recovery can play a critical role in addressing two critical and common server failures.

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Q&A

Opinions/Feedback - Clonezilla

July 30, 2012 9:15am PDT

Opinions/Feedback - Clonezilla I've used Ghost and Acronis over the years but as far as "free" goes has anyone used Clonezilla? Opinions, feedback, etc... TIA! Works well I've had no great...

9 Started by Rob Kuhn  |  Latest comment by backupguy80

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Enhancing SSD Reliability Through Efficient RAID Support

July 24, 2012 12:00am PDT

A serious problem with current SSDs is its low reliability due to their primary component, flash-memory, that has high error rate and limited erase count. Adopting RAID architecture is a...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Increase any PC's performance with these 10 steps

July 3, 2012 3:51am PDT

Justin James lists 10 simple steps that will help improve the speed and performance of any PC.

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An Improved Detection Scheme for Distributed IDM-STCs in Relay-Systems

June 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

This paper is concerned with the application of distributed Interleave-Division-Multiplexing Space-Time Codes (dIDM-STCs) in relaying systems with error-prone relays applying Decode-and-Forward...

Provided by: University of Brasilia

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RAID the WSN: Packet-Based Reliable Cooperative Diversity

May 24, 2012 12:00am PDT

This paper introduces a light-weight packet delivery approach called Packet-based Cooperative Diversity to improve the reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The authors' approach is...

Provided by: Freie Universität Berlin

Q&A

RAID Monitoring

May 16, 2012 8:02pm PDT

RAID Monitoring I have an HP ML 330 G6 Server running Server 20003R2 It has the capability to have (4) additional hard drives so I am considering to install (4) 2TB drives and configure as RAID5...

5 Latest comment by mike@...

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Dynamic Block-Level Cache Management for Cloud Computing Systems

May 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Block-level distributed storage systems (e.g., SAN, iSCSI) are commonly used in the emerging cloud computing systems to provide Virtual Machine (VM) storage. They allow fast VM migration across...

Provided by: Florida International University

Discussion Threads

TR Questions of Week April 14 2012

May 13, 2012 7:14pm PDT

TR Questions of Week April 14 2012 Here are the questions from last week that tweaked my interest though I'm not sure if anyone actually reads this. Col ;) Rebuild RAID 5 Virtual Drive...

1 Started by HAL 9000  |  Latest comment by HAL 9000

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RAID 5 Drive Replacement

May 10, 2012 2:53am PDT

RAID 5 Drive Replacement Hello, I have a Dell Poweredge 1900 in a RAID 5 configuration running SBS2003. One of the drives failed and instead of taking the drive offline first I just pulled the...

3 Latest comment by keving98

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Rebuild RAID 5 Virtual Drive PowerEdge 830

May 8, 2012 1:35pm PDT

Rebuild RAID 5 Virtual Drive PowerEdge 830 Hi...this is in regard to a Dell PowerEdge 830, P4, @3GB ram, with a Perc 4e/DC UtlraScsi 320 controller, Raid 5, 4-swappable internal drives (D:, E:)....

4 Started by ksdst1  |  Latest comment by johnl-tpa

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Partial-MDS Codes and Their Application to RAID Type of Architectures

May 7, 2012 12:00am PDT

A family of codes with a natural two-dimensional structure is presented, inspired by an application of RAID type of architectures whose units are Solid State Drives (SSDs). Arrays of SSDs behave...

Provided by: Cornell University