Maximizing Buffer and Disk Utilizations for News On-Demand

Summary: Maximize throughput under fixed buffer and disk bandwidth by co-optimizing buffer and disk utilization for multimedia workloads. Buffer sharing can cut total buffer needs by up to 50%; IP prefetching outperforms SP, delivering ~40% throughput gain. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8405
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,772 | 39.82%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Raymond T. Ng (University of British Columbia)
2. Jinhai Yang (University of British Columbia)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ng_vldb94,
        title = {{Maximizing Buffer and Disk Utilizations for News On-Demand}},
        author = {Ng, Raymond T. and Yang, Jinhai},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {451},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,009	L/MRP: A Buffer Management Strategy for Interactive Continuous Data Flows in a Multimedia DBMS	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,940	Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains	1991	SIGMOD	9.4473794e-05

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