Contextual trust aided enhancement of data availability in peer-to-peer backup storage systems

• Main Authors: Liu, Xin, Datta, Anwitaman
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100246; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17749
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Peer-to-peer storage services are a cost-effective alternative for data backup. A basic question that arises in the design of such systems is: In which peers do we store redundant data? Choosing appropmailriate peers for data backup is important at a microscopic level, from an end-user’s perspective...