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

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    Identifier: imarina:6389022
    Authors:
    Gracia-Tinedo RCotes CZamora-Gómez EOrtiz GMoreno-Martínez ASánchez-Artigas MGarcía-López PSánchez RGómez AIllana A
    Abstract:
    © 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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    Author, as appears in the 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
    Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    URV's Author/s: García López, Pedro Antonio / GRACIA TINEDO, RAÚL / Sanchez Artigas, Marc
    Keywords: Vendor lock-in Syntactic interoperability Personal clouds Cloud storage
    Abstract: © 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.
    Thematic Areas: Software Saúde coletiva Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Hardware and architecture Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias i Comunicação e informação Computer science, theory & methods Computer networks and communications Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciência da computação
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 0167739X
    Author's mail: marc.sanchez@urv.cat pedro.garcia@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0002-9700-7318 0000-0002-9848-1492
    Record's date: 2024-09-07
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X17301334
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal Of Escience. 78 1055-1070
    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
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2017.01.027
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2018
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science, Theory & Methods,Hardware and Architecture,Software
    Vendor lock-in
    Syntactic interoperability
    Personal clouds
    Cloud storage
    Software
    Saúde coletiva
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Matemática / probabilidade e estatística
    Interdisciplinar
    Hardware and architecture
    Engenharias iv
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias i
    Comunicação e informação
    Computer science, theory & methods
    Computer networks and communications
    Ciências sociais aplicadas i
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciência da computação
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