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Giving wings to your data: A first experience of Personal Cloud interoperability

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    Identificador:  imarina:6389022
    Autors:  Gracia-Tinedo, R; Cotes, C; Zamora-Gómez, E; Ortiz, G; Moreno-Martínez, A; Sánchez-Artigas, M; García-López, P; Sánchez, R; Gómez, A; Illana, A
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    © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Personal Clouds are becoming increasingly popular storage services for end-users and organizations. However, the competition among Personal Clouds, their proprietary nature and the heterogeneity of synchronization protocols have led to a complete lack of interoperability among them. Regrettably, this situation impedes that users share data transparently across multiple providers. Even worse, the lack of interoperability has associated serious risks, such as vendor lock-in, in which users get trapped in a single provider due to the cost of switching to another one. In this work, we contribute DataWings: The first interoperability protocol for Personal Clouds. DataWings consists of an authentication management protocol and a storage API for file storage, synchronization and sharing that adhere to the current authentication (OAuth) and REST standards, respectively. Moreover, we demonstrate the feasibility of DataWings by implementing the protocol in various providers (NEC, StackSync, eyeOS) and performing a real deployment evaluated with real trace replays of production systems (UbuntuOne, NEC). To our knowledge, this is the first real-world experience of Personal Cloud interoperability. Our experiments provide new insights on the performance implications that different types of user activity and the underlying sharing network topology have on the implementation of our protocol. We conclude that DataWings is flexible enough to leverage interoperability for heterogeneous Personal Clouds, opening the door for a broader adoption by other vendors.
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    Enllaç font original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X17301334
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Gracia-Tinedo, R; Cotes, C; Zamora-Gómez, E; Ortiz, G; Moreno-Martínez, A; Sánchez-Artigas, M; García-López, P; Sánchez, R; Gómez, A; Illana, A (2018). Giving wings to your data: A first experience of Personal Cloud interoperability. Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal Of Escience, 78(), 1055-1070. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2017.01.027
    Referència a l'article segons font original: Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal Of Escience. 78 1055-1070
    DOI de l'article: 10.1016/j.future.2017.01.027
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2018-01-01
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Data d'alta del registre: 2026-05-09
    Autor/s de la URV: García López, Pedro Antonio / GRACIA TINEDO, RAÚL / Sanchez Artigas, Marc
    Departament: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
    ISSN: 0167739X
    Autor segons l'article: Gracia-Tinedo, R; Cotes, C; Zamora-Gómez, E; Ortiz, G; Moreno-Martínez, A; Sánchez-Artigas, M; García-López, P; Sánchez, R; Gómez, A; Illana, A
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Àrees temàtiques: Software, Hardware and architecture, Engenharias iii, Computer science, theory & methods, Computer networks and communications
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: marc.sanchez@urv.cat, marc.sanchez@urv.cat, pedro.garcia@urv.cat, pedro.garcia@urv.cat
  • Paraules clau:

    Vendor lock-in
    Syntactic interoperability
    Personal clouds
    Cloud storage
    Computer Networks and Communications
    Computer Science
    Theory & Methods
    Hardware and Architecture
    Software
    Engenharias iii
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