Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System. Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, Elisha Ziskind, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Randolph Wang. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on File and Storage Technologies, San Francisco, California. Mar 2004.

Abstract

This paper presents a distributed mobile storage system designed for storage elements connected by a network of non-uniform quality. Flexible data placement is crucial, and it leads to challenges for locating data and keeping it consistent. Our system employs a location- and topology-sensitive multicast-like solution for locating data, lazy peer-to-peer propagation of invalidation information for ensuring consistency, and a distributed snapshot mechanism for supporting sharing. The combination of these mechanisms allows a user to make the most of what a non-uniform network has to offer in terms of gaining fast access to fresh data, without incurring the foreground penalty of keeping distributed elements on a weak network consistent.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{SGZ+:segank,
  author =    "Sumeet Sobti and Nitin Garg and Fengzhou Zheng and Junwen Lai and Yilei Shao and Chi Zhang and Elisha Ziskind and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Randolph Wang",
  title =     "{Segank}: A Distributed Mobile Storage System",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on File and Storage Technologies, San Francisco, California",
  year =      "2004",
  month =     mar,
}

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