vUPS: Virtually unifying personal storage for fast and pervasive data accesses

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 110 LNICST, Issue , 2013, Pages 186-204

  Hassan, Mohammed A ^a   Bhattarai, Kshitiz ^a   Chen, Songqing ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD STORAGES; CLOUD-BASED; CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; DAILY LIVES; DATA ACCESS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; OVERLAPPING FUNCTIONS; PERSONAL DEVICES; PERVASIVE ACCESS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SINGLE POINT; STORAGE SERVICES; STORAGE SPACES; STRONG CONSISTENCY; THIRD PARTIES; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS; USER PERFORMANCE; USER PRIVACY;

DATA PRIVACY; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84874793187     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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