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QuickSync: Improving synchronization efficiency for mobile cloud storage services

  • Yong Cui
  • , Zeqi Lai
  • , Xin Wang
  • , Ningwei Dai
  • , Congcong Miao
  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Mobile cloud storage services have gained phenomenal success in recent few years. In this paper, we identify, analyze and address the synchronization (sync) inefficiency problem of modern mobile cloud storage services. Our measurement results demonstrate that existing commercial sync services fail to make full use of available band width, and generate a large amount of unnecessary sync traffic in certain circumstance even though the incremental sync is implemented. These issues are caused by the inherent limitations of the sync protocol and the distributed architecture. Based on our findings, we propose QuickSync, a system with three novel techniques to improve the sync efficiency for mobile cloud storage services, and build the system on two commercial sync services. Our experimental results using representative workloads show that QuickSync is able to reduce up to 52.9% sync time in our experiment settings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobiCom 2015 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages592-603
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781450336192
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 7 2015
Event21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2015 - Paris, France
Duration: Sep 7 2015Sep 11 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM
Volume2015-September

Conference

Conference21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period09/7/1509/11/15

Keywords

  • Measurement
  • Mobile cloud storage
  • Performance

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