Peer-To-Peer Backup for Personal Area Networks

FlashBack is a peer-to-peer backup algorithm designed for power-constrained devices running in a personal area network (PAN). Backups are performed transparently as local updates initiate the spread of backup data among a subset of the currently available peers. Flashback limits power usage by avoiding flooding and keeping small neighbor sets. Flashback has also been designed to utilize powered infrastructure when possible to further extend device lifetime. We propose our architecture and algorithms, and present initial experimental results that illustrate FlashBack’s performance characteristics Comments DISCLAIMER: THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. INTEL AND THE AUTHORS OF THIS DOCUMENT DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, RELATING TO USE OR IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. THE PROVISION OF THIS DOCUMENT TO YOU DOES NOT PROVIDE YOU WITH ANY LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS NOTE: At the time of publication, author Boon Thau Loo was affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley. Currently (April 2007), he is a faculty member in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/cis_papers/334 Copyright 2002, Intel Corporation, All rights reserved. Peer-To-Peer Backup for Personal Area Networks Boon Thau Loo, University of California, Berkeley Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriello, Intel Research Seattle