TY - SER AU - Vasuki Ammaiyar, D. AU - Raghavan, S. V. TI - Optimal allocation of clients to file servers KW - PERFORMANCE KW - ALLOCATION KW - OPTIMIZATION N1 - The transparent way in which the remote resources are shared with improved performance justify the rapid replacement of single Large Computer Systems by Local Area Networks (LANs). Information (data) sharing is one of the major goals of LANs and file servers are one of the means of supporting data sharing in LAN environments. A typical LAN might have one or more file servers and in a network consisting of multiple file servers making effective use of them is an important design issue ER -