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vfcBOX: multi-user consistent file sharing

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Jean-Pierre Ramos,

Paulo FerreiraAuthors Info & Claims

MGC '11: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2089002.2089007

Published: 12 December 2011 Publication History

Abstract

The emerging of cloud file sharing systems has been motivated by real user needs for data sharing. There are many solutions providing such sharing support all having the common goal of being widely scalable while providing users with consistent shared data. However, offering consistent data is at odds with scalability as it requires many messages and available network bandwith for file transfer.

Network bandwidth can be minimized using several techniques such as compression, deduplication[10], delta encoding[9], etc. However, these approaches do not take into account that not all files must be fully consistent at all times for all users.

In this paper we further increase the scalability of a cloud file sharing system, called vfcBOX, by taking into account the notion of users interest. This means that vfcBOX considers users' consistency needs regarding shared files, to avoid sending useless (or unnecessary) data through the network. As a matter of fact, some files do not need to be constantly propagated to all users, because some of them do not require such immediacy given the particular semantics of the shared data.

vfcBOX uses not only deduplication techniques to minimize network usage but also a consistency model that takes into account the users' interests. The result is a scalable and efficient cloud file sharing system that fulfills users needs regarding data sharing.

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Salada JBarreto J(2013)TurboSocketsProceedings of the 2013 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications10.1109/TrustCom.2013.154(1291-1298)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TrustCom.2013.154

Index Terms

vfcBOX: multi-user consistent file sharing
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        File systems management
    2. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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MGC '11: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science

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DOI:10.1145/2089002

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State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

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Lee GKo HPack SPacifici VDan G(2019)Fog-Assisted Aggregated Synchronization Scheme for Mobile Cloud Storage ApplicationsIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2019.29144507(56852-56863)Online publication date: 2019
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Salada JBarreto J(2013)TurboSocketsProceedings of the 2013 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications10.1109/TrustCom.2013.154(1291-1298)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TrustCom.2013.154

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