Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems suffer from the overspecification of query results due to the fact that queries are conjunctive and the descriptions of shared files are sparse. ...
The inability to perform optimizations based on application-specific information presents a hurdle to the deployment of pervasive LAN file systems across WAN environments. This pa...
Are P2P systems and applications here to stay? Or are they a bright meteor whose destiny is to disappear soon? In this paper we try to give a positive answer to the first questio...
Renato Lo Cigno, Tommaso Pecorella, Matteo Sereno,...
A European consortium formed by science and industrial partners have started the EuroStore project1 to develop and market a Hierarchical Storage Management System (HSM) together w...
Prefetching is an effective technique for improving file access performance, which can reduce access latency for I/O systems. In distributed storage system, prefetching for metadat...
Lin Lin, Xueming Li, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Lei T...