Design a cloud storage platform for pervasive computing environments

An increasing number of personal electronic handheld devices (e.g., SmartPhone, netbook, MID and etc.), which make up the personal pervasive computing environments, are playing an important role in our daily lives. Data storage and sharing is difficult for these devices due to the data inflation and...

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Published in:Cluster computing 2010-06, Vol.13 (2), p.141-151
Main Authors: Zheng, Weimin, Xu, Pengzhi, Huang, Xiaomeng, Wu, Nuo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Clouds
Computation
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Data management
Data storage
Devices
Electronics
Focusing
Internet
Operating Systems
Platforms
Processor Architectures
Shadows
Smartphones
Ubiquitous computing
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Summary:An increasing number of personal electronic handheld devices (e.g., SmartPhone, netbook, MID and etc.), which make up the personal pervasive computing environments, are playing an important role in our daily lives. Data storage and sharing is difficult for these devices due to the data inflation and the natural limitations of mobile devices, such as the limited storage space and the limited computing capability. Since the emerging cloud storage solutions can provide reliable and unlimited storage, they satisfy to the requirement of pervasive computing very well. Thus we designed a new cloud storage platform which includes a series of shadow storage services to address these new data management challenges in pervasive computing environments, which called as “SmartBox”. In SmartBox, each device is associated its shadow storage with a unique account, and the shadow storage acts as backup center as well as personal repository when the device is connected. To facilitate file navigation, all datasets in shadow storage are organized based on file attributes which support the users to seek files by semantic queries. We implemented a prototype of SmartBox focusing on pervasive environments being made up of Internet accessible devices. Experimental results with the deployments confirm the efficacy of shadow storage services in SmartBox.
ISSN:1386-7857
1573-7543
DOI:10.1007/s10586-009-0111-1