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Virtual memory page translation tables provide mappings from virtual to physical addresses. When the hardware controlled Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) do not contain a translation, these tables provide the translation. Approaches to the structure and management of these tables vary from full hardware implementations to complete software based algorithms.
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Huck et al. (1993) studied this question.