Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments

Summary: Proposes Broadcast Disks: multispeed disks on a single broadcast channel to build a fine-grained memory hierarchy for asymmetric networks. Reevaluates cache policies for broadcast hierarchies; offers approximations, supported by simulations on skewed data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2eacbec67f8590ba
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 9.5749088e-05
Overall Rank: 1,817 | 87.79%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223816

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Authors

1. Swarup Acharya (Brown University)
2. Rafael Alonso (Panasonic)
3. Michael Franklin (University of Maryland)
4. Stanley Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{acharya_sigmod95,
        title = {{Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments}},
        author = {Acharya, Swarup and Alonso, Rafael and Franklin, Michael and Zdonik, Stanley},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223816},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223816},
        year = {1995}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
112	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00032459277
1,018	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012466304
1,358	Design Considerations for High Fan-in Systems: The HiFi Approach	2005	CIDR	0.00010922626
2,991	Balancing Push and Pull for Data Broadcast	1997	SIGMOD	7.7736998e-05
3,028	Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna	2019	VLDB	7.7377953e-05
4,384	Reordering Query Execution in Tertiary Memory Databases	1996	VLDB	6.6259414e-05
7,728	Disseminating Updates on Broadcast Disks	1996	VLDB	5.4659666e-05
8,109	Wireless Graffiti - Data, data everywhere	2002	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
9,268	Efficient Concurrency Control for Broadcast Environments	1999	SIGMOD	5.2056825e-05
9,269	Adaptive Data Broadcast in Hybrid Networks	1997	VLDB	5.2056825e-05
9,837	"Data In Your Face": Push Technology in Perspective	1998	SIGMOD	5.123765e-05
13,135	A Multi-version Cache Replacement and Prefetching Policy for Hybrid Data Delivery Environments	2002	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,198	Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks	1999	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
14,446	DBIS-Toolkit: Adaptable Middleware For Large Scale Data Delivery	1999	SIGMOD	-

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
106	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033526937
212	The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering	1993	SIGMOD	0.00024767296
593	2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm	1994	VLDB	0.00015836342
810	The Datacycle Architecture for Very High Throughput Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	0.00013757316
1,876	Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments	1994	SIGMOD	9.4539144e-05
2,493	Energy Efficient Indexing On Air	1994	SIGMOD	8.3896397e-05
2,927	The Effect of Skewed Data Access on Buffer Hits and Data Contention in a Data Sharing Environment	1990	VLDB	7.8431357e-05
5,203	Global Memory Management in Client-Server DBMS Architectures	1992	VLDB	6.2303317e-05

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