Lecture 15: Disconnected and Weak-Connected Operations

Preparation:

Lecture Notes:

• Vivek's Presentation on hoarding [access limited to UT hosts]
• Manyam's Presentation on low-bandwidth file system [access limited to UT hosts]

Homework

• Read the required papers.

Papers (Required)

1. L. Mummert, M. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, " Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access," ACM SOSP 1995.
2. G. Kuenning and G. Popek, " Automated hoarding for mobile computers," ACM SOSP 1997.
3. A. Muthitacharoen, B. Chen, and D. Mazieres, " A low-bandwidth network file system," ACM SOSP 2001.

Other References (Recommended)

1. J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan, " Disconnected operation in the Coda File System," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992.
2. C. Tait, Hui Lei, S. Acharya, and H. Chang, " Intelligent file hoarding for mobile computers," Proceedings of ACM MobiCom'95, pp. 119-125.