We consider the problem of information retrieval in a peerto-peer file sharing system. We assume that peers are unreliable, metadata are sparse, and queries are short. In light o...
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
The scale of today's storage systems has made it increasingly difficult to find and manage files. To address this, we have developed Spyglass, a file metadata search system t...
Andrew W. Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Sh...
Web proxy caching servers play a key role in today's Web infrastructure. Previous studies have shown that disk I/O is one of the major performance bottlenecks of proxy server...
Finding relevant files in a personal file system continues to be a challenge. It is still easier to find stuff on the Web with its exponential growth than in one’s personal ...