Dissecting UbuntuOne: Autopsy of a global-scale personal cloud back-end

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-168

  Gracia Tinedo, Raúl ^a   Tian, Yongchao ^b   Sampé, Josep ^a   Harkous, Hamza ^c   Lenton, John ^d   García López, Pedro ^a   Sánchez Artigas, Marc ^a   Vukolic, Marko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b EURECOM   (France)

^c Inst for Molec and Biol Chemistry   (Italy)

^d Canonical Ltd   (Italy)

^e IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Measurement; Performance analysis; Personal cloud

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; MEASUREMENT; METADATA;

CORE COMPONENTS; INTERNAL OPERATIONS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT STUDY; METADATA SERVICES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL CLOUDS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84954164387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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