Design, Implementation and Application of the CAOSS Adaptive Online Storage System

Tomohiro INOUE
Takayuki NAKAMURA
Motonori NAKAMURA
Masayasu YAMAGUCHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.3    pp.911-922
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.3.911
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Ubiquitous Networks)
Category: Software Platform Technologies
Keyword: 
network storage,  replicated data management,  ad hoc network,  information-sharing application,  

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Summary: 
Communications in locally structured wireless networks, such as ad hoc networks, will play an important role for network services and applications in the ubiquitous networking environments of the future. Most of the time, however, mobile networks are used in much the same way as fixed networks: most of the time, mobile terminals merely access information which is stored in the backbone network. Applications based on the local exchange of information gathered or generated by mobile terminals will open up many novel possibilities. A new online storage system named CAOSS facilitates such exchange and constitutes a building block for various new applications. CAOSS is a server-less system that provides high availability of data in mobile and wireless network environments. We describe CAOSS and its application in a mobile video-information-sharing system named GT. Thanks to the good performance of CAOSS, the GT system gives users a convenient and easy way to share and accumulate video data in a wireless environment. We confirm that CAOSS has strong enough performance to deal with large volumes of video data.