The recent emergence of NVMe flash devices with Zoned Namespace support, ZNS SSDs,
represents a significant new advancement in flash storage. ZNS SSDs introduce a new …

A few studies reported that fragmentation still adversely affects the performance of flash solid-
state disks (SSDs) particularly through request splitting. This research investigates the …

The ZNS (Zoned NameSpace) interface shifts much of the storage maintenance
responsibility to the host from the underlying SSDs (Solid-State Drives). In addition, it opens …

Over the years, interest in computational storage devices has been growing steadily. This is
largely due to the rise of data-intensive applications, such as machine learning, online video …

Flash-based storage is known to suffer from performance unpredictability due to interference
between host-issued I/O and device-side I/O management. SSDs with data placement …

The NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is gaining popularity in cloud data centers as a remote
storage protocol for accessing NVMe storage devices across servers. With the rapid …

Today, energy and performance efficiency have become a crucial factor in modern
computing environments, such as high-end mobile devices, desktops, and enterprise …

With the development of high-density flash memory techniques, SSDs have achieved high
performance and large capacity. Databases often use logging to ensure transactional …

Since cloud service providers adopt the sharing mode to improve the utilization of solid state
drives (SSDs) and reduce management costs, fairness is a critical design consideration and …

Storage devices use write buffers to improve performance, where multiple write requests are
processed in parallel and completed in a random order. This may result in data loss in the …