Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in orde...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Kannan Ramchandran, Yunnan ...
Reputation systems aggregate mutual feedback of interacting peers into a "reputation" metric for each participant. This is then available to prospective service "req...
Trust negotiation is an approach to establishing trust between strangers through the bilateral, iterative disclosure of digital credentials. Under automated trust negotiation, acc...
Increasingly scientific discoveries are driven by analyses of massively distributed bulk data. This has led to the proliferation of high-end mass storage systems, storage area clu...
This paper envisions a distributed network storage service with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees, and describes its architecture and key mechanisms. When fully realized, this se...