Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration

Haiyang Wang; Xiaoqiang Ma; Feng Wang; Jiangchuan Liu; Bharath Kumar Bommana; Xin Liu

doi:10.1109/IWQoS.2016.7590396

Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration

Haiyang Wang, Xiaoqiang Ma, Feng Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, Bharath Kumar Bommana, Xin Liu

Computer Science (Duluth)

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In this paper, we take a close look to understand the cloud-based file synchronization and collaboration systems. Using the popular Dropbox as a case study, our measurement reveals its cascaded computation and communication operations that are far more complicated than those in conventional file hosting. We show that this serial design is necessary for the cloud deployment, which effectively avoids the possible task interference inside the computation cloud; yet it also leads to higher service variance across users. Even worse, in a collaborative file editing session, users' updates would be discarded without any warning. The drop rate is unfortunately related to the slowest collaborator, which severely hinders the system scalability and user satisfaction. We further investigate the root causes of this phenomenon as well as other performance bottlenecks and offer hints for practical improvement.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509026340
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWQoS.2016.7590396
State	Published - Oct 13 2016
Event	24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016 - Beijing, China Duration: Jun 20 2016 → Jun 21 2016

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Name	2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016

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Other	24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	6/20/16 → 6/21/16

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Wang, H., Ma, X., Wang, F., Liu, J., Bommana, B. K., & Liu, X. (2016). Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration. In 2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016 Article 7590396 (2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWQoS.2016.7590396

Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration. / Wang, Haiyang; Ma, Xiaoqiang; Wang, Feng et al.
2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. 7590396 (2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016).

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Wang, H, Ma, X, Wang, F, Liu, J, Bommana, BK & Liu, X 2016, Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration. in 2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016., 7590396, 2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016, Beijing, China, 6/20/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWQoS.2016.7590396

Wang H, Ma X, Wang F, Liu J, Bommana BK, Liu X. Diving into cloud-based file synchronization with user collaboration. In 2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. 7590396. (2016 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2016). doi: 10.1109/IWQoS.2016.7590396

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