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Scientific Programming
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 3780163, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3780163
Research Article

MultiCache: Multilayered Cache Implementation for I/O Virtualization

Jaechun No1 and Sung-soon Park2

1College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea
2Department of Computer Engineering, Anyang University and Gluesys Co. LTD, Anyang 5-dong, Manan-gu 430-714, Republic of Korea

Received 16 February 2016; Revised 18 June 2016; Accepted 3 July 2016

Academic Editor: Zhihui Du

Copyright © 2016 Jaechun No and Sung-soon Park. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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