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Caching and Scheduling for Broadcast Disk SystemsVincenzo Liberatore1Institute for Advanced Computer Studies 1UMIACS, A. V. Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail:vliberatore@. URL: /users/liberato/. AbstractUnicast connections lead to performance and scalability problems when a large client population attemptsto access the same data. Broadcast push and broadcast disk technology address the problem by broadcastingdata items from a server to a large number of clients. Broadcast disk performance depends mainly on cachingstrategies at the client site and on how