A measurement study of the Wuala on-line storage service

2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 237-248

  Mager, Thomas ^a   Biersack, Ernst ^a   Michiardi, Pietro ^a  

^a EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST PROTOCOLS; CLIENT/SERVER; CODING SCHEME; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; FILE-SHARING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MOBILE TERMINAL; MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION; NETWORK TRAFFIC; ONLINE BACKUP; RESOURCE USAGE; REVERSE ENGINEERS; STORAGE SERVICES; TRANSMISSION BLOCK;

DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL STORAGE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870321943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/P2P.2012.6335804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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