Towards network-level efficiency for cloud storage services

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 118-128

  Li, Zhenhua ^a   Jin, Cheng ^b   Xu, Tianyin ^c   Wilson, Christo ^d   Liu, Yao ^e   Cheng, Linsong ^a   Liu, Yunhao ^a   Dai, Yafei ^f   Zhang, Zhi Li ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud storage service; Data synchronization; Network level efficiency; Traffic usage efficiency

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DATA SHARING; DIGITAL STORAGE; EFFICIENCY; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES; CRITICAL QUESTIONS; CURRENT DATA; DATA SYNCHRONIZATION; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK LEVEL; REAL-WORLD; SERVICE PROVIDER;

STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STAAS);

EID: 84910148499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663716.2663747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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