StackSync: Bringing elasticity to dropbox-like file synchronization

Proceedings of the 15th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 49-60

  Lopez, Pedro Garcia ^a   Sanchez Artigas, Marc ^a   Toda, Sergi ^a   Cotes, Cristian ^a   Lenton, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b Canonical Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Elasticity; Middleware; Storage

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY STORAGE; INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLEWARE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CHANGE NOTIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; FILE SYNCHRONIZATION; INDIRECT COMMUNICATION; LIGHTWEIGHT FRAMEWORKS; MESSAGE PROCESSING; PROVISIONING POLICIES; REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84920373386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663165.2663332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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