Title: Implementation of a distributed file storage with replica management in Peer-to-Peer environments

Authors: Chao-Tung Yang, Hung-Yen Chen, Chih-Lin Huang, Shyh-Chang Tsaur

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan. ' Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chin-yi University of Technology, Taichung County, Taiwan

Abstract: In this work, we make utilisation of users| computers involved in this distributed storage system easily, and users share their powerful resources with this Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment. Users can download the resources from this P2P distributed storage system. To transfer more efficiently, this paper also proposes a parallel transfer algorithm for every node and replication mechanism. The experiment results have shown that it is an effective parallel transfer method, which not only uses network bandwidth more, but also reduces the download transfer time.

Keywords: file sharing; P2P; peer-to-peer; distributed storage systems; file replication; replica management; parallel transfer; network bandwidth; download transfer time.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2011.040120

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Vol.7 No.3, pp.202 - 210

Published online: 18 May 2011 *

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