Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System

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 locationand 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-uniformnetwork 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: FAST
• Authors: Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, Elisha Ziskind, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
• Keywords: Distributed Mobile Storage, FAST 2004, Flexible Data Placement, Lazy Peer-to-peer Propagation, Operating System