Storage Tradeoffs in a Collaborative Backup Service for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices are increasingly relied on but are used in contexts that put them at risk of physical damage, loss or theft. We consider a fault-tolerance approach that exploits spontaneous interactions to implement a collaborative backup service. We define the constraints implied by the mobile environment,analyze how they translate into the storage layer of such a backup system and examine various design options. The paper concludes with a presentation of our prototype implementation of the storage layer, an evaluation of the impact of several compression methods,and directions for future work.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EDCC
• Authors: Ludovic Courtès, Marc-Olivier Killijian, David Powell
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Collaborative Backup Service, EDCC 2006, Mobile Devices, Storage Layer