Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. 4th International Conference, MobiCASE 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, October 11-12, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

vUPS: Virtually Unifying Personal Storage for Fast and Pervasive Data Accesses

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_11,
        author={Mohammed Hassan and Kshitiz Bhattarai and Songqing Chen},
        title={vUPS: Virtually Unifying Personal Storage for Fast and Pervasive Data Accesses},
        proceedings={Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. 4th International Conference, MobiCASE 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, October 11-12, 2012. Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBICASE},
        year={2013},
        month={2},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_11}
    }
    
  • Mohammed Hassan
    Kshitiz Bhattarai
    Songqing Chen
    Year: 2013
    vUPS: Virtually Unifying Personal Storage for Fast and Pervasive Data Accesses
    MOBICASE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_11
Mohammed Hassan1,*, Kshitiz Bhattarai1,*, Songqing Chen1,*
  • 1: George Mason University
*Contact email: mhassanb@gmu.edu, kbhattar@gmu.edu, sqchen@gmu.edu

Abstract

More and more overlapping functions on all kinds of mobile devices with these on traditional computers have significantly expanded the usage of mobile devices in our daily life. This also causes the demand surge of pervasively and quickly accessing files across different personal devices owned by a user. Most existing solutions, such as DropBox and SkyDrive, rely on some centralized infrastructure (e.g., cloud storage) to synchronize files across different devices. Therefore, these solutions come with potential risks of user privacy and data secrecy. In addition, continuously maintaining strong consistency among multiple replicas of a file is very costly.