Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Wells, Patrick R. Eaton, Ben Y. Zhao and John D. Kubiatowicz
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-01-1139
March 2001
http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/CSD-01-1139.pdf
The rise of ubiquitous computing has created a need for wide-area durable storage. We propose a model and interface for such an archival system, that stores data in a durable, verifiable, available, and self-maintainable manner. We argue that such a system can be created by using novel techniques of erasure codes, secure hashing, and decentralized wide-area location infrastructures to distribute fragments across the wide-area on an arbitrary set of servers. This model allows files to remain available even as servers fail. Finally, we implement Silverback, a prototype archival system using the model that we developed, and measure its performance.
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Weatherspoon:CSD-01-1139, Author = {Weatherspoon, Hakim and Wells, Chris and Eaton, Patrick R. and Zhao, Ben Y. and Kubiatowicz, John D.}, Title = {Silverback: A Global-Scale Archival System}, Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley}, Year = {2001}, Month = {Mar}, URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/5212.html}, Number = {UCB/CSD-01-1139}, Abstract = {The rise of ubiquitous computing has created a need for wide-area durable storage. We propose a model and interface for such an archival system, that stores data in a durable, verifiable, available, and self-maintainable manner. We argue that such a system can be created by using novel techniques of erasure codes, secure hashing, and decentralized wide-area location infrastructures to distribute fragments across the wide-area on an arbitrary set of servers. This model allows files to remain available even as servers fail. Finally, we implement Silverback, a prototype archival system using the model that we developed, and measure its performance.} }
EndNote citation:
%0 Report %A Weatherspoon, Hakim %A Wells, Chris %A Eaton, Patrick R. %A Zhao, Ben Y. %A Kubiatowicz, John D. %T Silverback: A Global-Scale Archival System %I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley %D 2001 %@ UCB/CSD-01-1139 %U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/5212.html %F Weatherspoon:CSD-01-1139