Application of neural networks in predictive prefetching

An important issue that affects response time performance in current systems is the I/O involved in moving objects from slow secondary storage device to main memory. A promising way to tackle this problem is to use prefetching, in which we predict the user's next page requests and get those pages into memory in the background. Current systems perform limited prefetching by locality of reference. A novel idea of using neural networks for predictive prefetching is discussed here.