@article{M4B63A7FC, title = "MQSim-E: Design and Implementation of an NVMe SSD Simulator for Enterprise SSDs", journal = "Journal of KIISE, JOK", year = "2022", issn = "2383-630X", doi = "10.5626/JOK.2022.49.4.271", author = "Duwon Hong,Dusol Lee,Jihong Kim", keywords = "simulator,enterprise SSD,NAND flash,enterprise server,data center", abstract = "In the study of storage systems such as SSD, a simulator that accurately mimic the operation of SW/HW inside the system plays an important role. In this paper, MQSim, which is widely used in research on NVMe SSDs, was shown to be inappropriate for the development of enterprise-SSD, and we propose an MQSim-E simulator that supports optimized techniques adopted in enterprise-SSD. MQSim-E fully utilizes the parallelism of flash memory and minimizes the performance overhead of garbage collection, improving IOPS, which is an important design goal for enterprise-SSDs, by up to 210% and reducing tail latency by up to 16,000% compared to the existing simulator (MQSim) to accurately reflect the characteristics of commercial enterprise SSDs." }