Edgecourier: An edge-hosted personal service for low-bandwidth document synchronization in mobile cloud storage services

2017 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Hao, Pengzhan ^a   Bai, Yongshu ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Zhang, Yifan ^a  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud storage; Edge computing; File synchronization; Mobile computing; Unikernel

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MOBILE COMPUTING;

BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION; CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES; CLOUD STORAGES; EDGE COMPUTING; EVALUATION RESULTS; FILE SYNCHRONIZATION; PERSONAL SERVICES; UNIKERNEL;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 85039842927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3132211.3134447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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