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Packet Juggling - Floating Data Storage

Posted by Hemos on from the utility-computing dept.

Filthmaster writes "I just saw an interesting paper that has been posted to bugtraq, full-disclosure and vulnwatch. It deals with the principles of stealthily using network infrastructure as either short-term or long-term storage. Not sure if I'm ready to implement it, but it makes interesting food for thought." There's also a mirror up.

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  1. Provisioned storage within the Internet by FastDownload · · Score: 5, Informative

    While the authors try to use existing protocols to simulate temporary storage in the Internet, we are working on a scalable, shared storage resource that is open to the community.

    We currently have over 20 TB of storage around the world available in the public Logistical Networking Testbed and other groups have another 10-20 TB provisioned in private use testbeds.

    In additon to storage, we are also working on providing simple computational services at the storage nodes (work on the data in place while it is stored rather than moving it to computation centers).

    For more info, visit the LoCI Lab at http://loci.cs.utk.edu.

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  2. Main problem with this is... by zen+parse · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not everyone can benefit, because of side effects of it's parasitic nature.

    The amount of storage this system gives in the text would be total available for ALL users of the system. More users, less avaiable storage.

    Parasites can do better when there little competition from other parasites, but if the system get's infested, the host it lives of may die. Or someone may develop a cure.

    Either way, after a certain threshold, the more popular any system using this gets, the less useful it would be.

    Just some random thoughts I had when I was talking about a similar idea with someone.