Efficient batched synchronization in dropbox-like cloud storage services

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8275 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 307-327

  Li, Zhenhua ^a,b   Wilson, Christo ^c   Jiang, Zhefu ^d   Liu, Yao ^e   Zhao, Ben Y ^f   Jin, Cheng ^g   Zhang, Zhi Li ^g   Dai, Yafei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud storage service; Data synchronization; Dropbox; Traffic overuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893979947     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45065-5_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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