The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...
Commodity file systems trust disks to either work or fail completely, yet modern disks exhibit more complex failure modes. We suggest a new fail-partial failure model for disks, ...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, N...
We investigate in this paper the performance of a file sharing principle similar to the one implemented by eMule. For this purpose, we consider a system composed of N peers becomi...
Florian Simatos, Philippe Robert, Fabrice Guillemi...
We describe Eureka, a file system search engine that takes into account the inherent relationships among files in order to improve the rankings of search results. The key idea b...
We examine issues in the design of fully dynamic information retrieval systems with support for instantaneous document insertions and deletions. We present one such system and dis...