Karen, Kai-Yuan Hou

Research Interests

Current Work

To improve disk performance by dynamically rearranging the disk layout.

Disk performance is increasingly the bottleneck to overall system performance. Disk access time is primarily limited by the disk head positioning latencies, i.e. seek time and rotational delay. I am working on a hybrid method to rearrange the disk layout in a way that disk accesses involve shorter seek and rotational latencies, and hence users and applications experience better storage system performance.

Contact

E-mail: karenhou@umich.edu

Address: 4956 CSE, 2260 Hayward St, MI 48109

-- Main.karenhou - 30 Mar 2007