Enhancing Cloud Storage with Shareable Instances for Social Computing
Ying Mao, Peizhao Hu

TL;DR
This paper introduces Skyfiles, a cloud storage management system that enhances mobile device capabilities by using cloud instances for advanced file operations and sharing idle instances securely.
Contribution
It presents a novel system that extends cloud storage functionalities on smartphones through cloud-assisted file operations and secure sharing of idle instances.
Findings
Supports downloading, compressing, encrypting, and converting files
Enables file transfer between users' cloud storage
Provides a secure protocol for sharing idle cloud instances
Abstract
Cloud storage plays an important role in social computing. This paper aims to develop a cloud storage management system for mobile devices to support an extended set of file operations. Because of the limit of storage, bandwidth, power consumption, and other resource restrictions, most existing cloud storage apps for smartphones do not keep local copies of files. This efficient design, however, limits the application capacities. In this paper, we attempt to extend the available file operations for cloud storage service to better serve smartphone users. We develop an efficient and secure file management system, Skyfiles, to support more advanced file operations. The basic idea of our design is to utilize cloud instances to assist file operations. Particularly, Skyfiles supports downloading, compressing, encrypting, and converting operations, as well as file transfer between two…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCloud Data Security Solutions · Caching and Content Delivery · IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
