Title
Cegor: an adaptive distributed file system for heterogeneous network environments
Abstract
Distributed file systems have been extensively studied in the past, but they are still far from wide acceptance over heterogeneous network environments. Most traditional network file systems target the tight-couple highspeed networks only, and do not work well in the wide-area setting. Several communication optimization techniques are proposed in the context of wide-area file systems, but these approaches do not take into consideration the file characteristics and may instead introduce extra computing overhead when the network condition is good. We envision that the capability of providing adaptive, seamless file access to personal documents across diverse network connections plays an important role in the success of future distributed file systems. In this paper, we propose to build an adaptive distributed file system which provides the "close and go, open and resume" (Cegor) semantics across heterogeneous network connections, ranging from high-bandwidth local area network to low-bandwidth dial-up connection. Our approach relies on a set of new techniques for managing adaptive access to remote files, including three components: system support for secure, transparent reconnection at different places, semantic-view based caching to reduce communication frequencies in the system, and type-specific communication optimization to minimize the bandwidth requirement of synchronizations between clients and servers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICPADS.2004.1316090
ICPADS
Keywords
Field
DocType
highspeed networks,optimisation,network connections,adaptive access,wide-area file systems,distributed file system,high-bandwidth local area network,cegor,network operating systems,cache storage,computer network management,network file systems,low-bandwidth dial-up connection,semantic-view based caching,clients-and-server synchronization,high-bandwidthlocal area network,adaptive distributedfile system,transparent reconnection,communication frequencies,communication optimization techniquesare,system support,close-and-go open-and-resume semantics,file system,personal documents,secure reconnection,heterogeneous network environments,file access,futuredistributed file system,remote files,communication frequency,client-server systems,communication optimization,traditionalnetwork file system,local area networks,remote file,adaptive file system,wide-area file system,tight coupling,heterogeneous network,bandwidth,adaptive systems,mobile communication,computer networks,frequency,network file system,local area network,file servers
Distributed File System,SSH File Transfer Protocol,Global Namespace,Replication (computing),Self-certifying File System,Computer science,Everything is a file,Computer network,Shared resource,Network File System,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1521-9097
0-7695-2152-5
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weisong Shi12323163.09
Sharun Santhosh271.92
Hanping Lufei3295.08