Developing a bundling mechanism to make peer-assisted file synchronization feasibleI

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: No

Education area(s): Enginyeria Informàtica

Title in different languages: Developing a bundling mechanism to make peer-assisted file synchronization feasible

Abstract: As tools for personal storage, file synchronization and data sharing, cloud storage services have quickly gained popularity. This services provide users a reliable data storage that can be automatically synced across multiple devices, and also shared among a group of users.To minimize the network overhead, cloud storage services employ binary diff on file chunks, file bundling, data compression, and other mechanisms when transferring updates among users. The main problem is that these services mainly rely on the client-server communication paradigm to make their content available, missing the opportunity to benefit from the interest of users in the same content. Recent research papers have proved that a high percentage of file sizes are under 1MB , we propose different scenarios where may be feasible to use clients bandwidths to offload cloud servers applying bundling on this small files. In this regard, the content provider could cut bandwidth costs by making use of peer-to-peer content delivery by benefiting from the collaborative sharing of their upload capacity in terms of download speed. As main goal in this thesis we will study the relation between peer-to-peer content delivery and bundling mechanisms in order to minimize the amount of data to be sent to cloud servers and relax its workload as well as bandwidth use.

Subject: Enginyeria de programari

Academic year: 2013-2014

Language: Anglès

Work's public defense date: 2014-08-09

Subject areas: Computer engineering

Student: Raül Sáiz Laudó

Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

TFM credits: 30

Creation date in repository: 2014-09-26

Keywords: Peer-assisted , personal cloud, bundling

Title in original language: Developing a bundling mechanism to make peer-assisted file synchronization feasible

Project director: Marc Sánchez Artigas