@InProceedings{golubchik:striping,
  author = {Leana Golubchik and Richard R. Muntz and Richard W. Watson},
  title = {Analysis of Striping Techniques in Robotic Storage Libraries},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage
  Systems},
  year = {1995},
  month = {September},
  pages = {225--238},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  URL = {http://www.computer.org/conferen/mss95/golub/golub.htm},
  keywords = {mass storage, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In recent years advances in computational speed have been the
  main focus of research and development in high performance computing. In
  comparison, the improvement in I/O performance has been modest. Faster
  processing speeds have created a need for faster I/O as well as for the
  storage and retrieval of vast amounts of data. The technology needed to
  develop these mass storage systems exists today. Robotic storage libraries
  are vital components of such systems. However, they normally exhibit high
  latency and long transmission times. We analyze the performance of robotic
  storage libraries and study striping as a technique for improving response
  time. Although striping has been extensively studied in the content of disk
  arrays, the architectural differences between robotic storage libraries and
  arrays of disks suggest that a separate study of striping techniques in such
  libraries would be beneficial.}
}