Growing Distributed Systems From a Spore
In International Conference on Distributed Systems, June 2012.
Yunus Basagalar, Vassilios Lekakis and Pete Keleher
Abstract:
This paper describes the design and evaluation of Spore, a secure
cloud-based file system that minimizes trust and functionality
assumptions on underlying servers. Spore differs from other systems
in that system relationships are formalized only through signed data
objects, rather than in complicated protocols executed between clients
and servers. This approach allows Spore to bootstrap a file system
from a single object, providing integrity and security guarantees
while storing all data as simple, immutable objects on untrusted
servers.
We use simulation to characterize the performance of this system,
focusing primarily on the cost incurred in compensating for the
minimal server support. We show that while a naive approach is quite
inefficient, a series of simple optimizations can enable the system to
perform well in real-world scenarios.
@inProceedings{spore,
title = "Growing Distributed Systems From a Spore",
author = "Yunus Basagalar and Vassilios Lekakis and Pete Keleher",
booktitle = {International Conference on Distributed Systems},
month = {June},
year = {2012},
}
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