Wind power is a growing sector of the United States electricity generation system. The integration of wind energy into the electrical grid presents capacity-related challenges to policy makers. The introduction of large-scale storage capabilities for wind power could lead to cost and reliability benefits if the interface locations are chosen wisely. The location of storage capability in the ele...

This paper presents and discusses simulation of an End-of-Aisle automated storage and retrieval system, using FLEXSIM 6. The objective of the simulation model is to analyze and compare results of different control policies and physical designs. The performance measures considered for the evaluation of each control policy and layout combination are the total travel time of the crane and the numb...

New storage devices based on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have been proposed [3]. Enabled by high storage densities (> 1 Tb/in), MEMS technology promises to deliver small-form factor, high-capacity, and low-power storage devices. These devices have potentially low cost, because they can be manufactured using batch MEMS fabrication technology. A MEMS-based storage device dissipates an...

Large scale distributed applications such as electronic commerce and online marketplaces (e.g., auction services) combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed responsibility for resource control creates new security and privacy issues, caused by the complexity of the operating environment. In particular, policies at multiple layers and locations force...

Determining the optimal storage assignment for products in a dedicated warehouse has been addressed extensively in the Facility Logistics literature. However, the process of implementing a particular storage assignment given the current location of products has not received much attention in the existing literature. Typically, warehouses use downtime or overtime to remove products from their cu...

Petabyte and Exabyte storage systems are a reality. These systems introduce unique challenges to the systems architect because of their size and unique requirements. In this thesis, I suggest that access patterns to very large storage systems are long-tailed distributions. I explore three live systems and show that each of them has a very strong long-tailed access distribution. Based on this fi...

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Storage Area Network (SAN) promise both a single source of data and improved performance and availability. SAN are extended to a WAN infrastructure to offer easier sharing over multiple locations. This created a need for bandwidth which can be provided by the underlying optical transport network. In this paper, we propose a policybased lightpath signaling approach based on the OpenGrid architec...

Storage Area Networks (SAN) are based on direct interaction between clients and storage servers exposing the storage server to network attacks. Giving the client direct access to the storage servers requires verification that the client requests conform with the system protection policy. Today, the only available solutions enforce access control at the granularity of entire storage servers. Thi...

Cloud computing is the computing technology which provides resources like software, hardware, services over the internet. Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. Since the data transmission on the internet or over any networks are ...