Disconnected operation in the Coda file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Managing update conflicts in Bayou, a weakly connected replicated storage system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Leader election algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks
DIALM '00 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications
Replication requirements in mobile environments
Mobile Networks and Applications - Dial m for mobility: discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communication
ICDE '96 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering
The LOCUS distributed operating system
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The Ficus Replicated File System
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Managing trust and reputation in the XenoServer open platform
iTrust'03 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Trust management
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File replication for uninterrupted availability is affected by the localised nature of network failures, particularly in ubiquitous, mobile environments; nearby nodes often get disconnected together, as a result of switching equipment faults, or of local wireless network unavailability – for instance, failure of a base station, or loss of network connectivity when a train enters a tunnel. In this paper we propose replic8, a substrate for location-aware file replication, mitigating the effect of localised network failures by storing replicas at network locations selected for being far away. We demonstrate that, compared to storage of replicas at random network locations, replic8 achieves high data availability, and requires lower numbers of replicas to maintain that.