I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Measurement and analysis of online social networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Poking facebook: characterization of osn applications
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
Passive analysis of TCP anomalies
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
What's inside the Cloud? An architectural map of the Cloud landscape
CLOUD '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing
An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The impact of virtualization on network performance of amazon EC2 data center
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
The good, the bad and the ugly of consumer cloud storage
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
CloudCmp: comparing public cloud providers
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An experimental study of home gateway characteristics
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing: A Survey
SKG '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids
Side Channels in Cloud Services: Deduplication in Cloud Storage
IEEE Security and Privacy
Dark clouds on the horizon: using cloud storage as attack vector and online slack space
SEC'11 Proceedings of the 20th USENIX conference on Security
Proofs of ownership in remote storage systems
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
YouTube everywhere: impact of device and infrastructure synergies on user experience
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
DNS to the rescue: discerning content and services in a tangled web
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Cloud storage pricing: a comparison of current practices
Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Hot topics in cloud services
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Measurement and understanding of cyberlocker URL-sharing sites: focus on movie files
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Next stop, the cloud: understanding modern web service deployment in EC2 and azure
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Benchmarking personal cloud storage
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
*-Box: towards reliability and consistency in dropbox-like file synchronization services
HotStorage'13 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems
T-CloudDisk: a tunable cloud storage service for flexible batched synchronization
Proceedings Demo & Poster Track of ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
ViewBox: integrating local file systems with cloud storage services
FAST'14 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
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Personal cloud storage services are gaining popularity. With a rush of providers to enter the market and an increasing offer of cheap storage space, it is to be expected that cloud storage will soon generate a high amount of Internet traffic. Very little is known about the architecture and the performance of such systems, and the workload they have to face. This understanding is essential for designing efficient cloud storage systems and predicting their impact on the network. This paper presents a characterization of Dropbox, the leading solution in personal cloud storage in our datasets. By means of passive measurements, we analyze data from four vantage points in Europe, collected during 42 consecutive days. Our contributions are threefold: Firstly, we are the first to study Dropbox, which we show to be the most widely-used cloud storage system, already accounting for a volume equivalent to around one third of the YouTube traffic at campus networks on some days. Secondly, we characterize the workload users in different environments generate to the system, highlighting how this reflects on network traffic. Lastly, our results show possible performance bottlenecks caused by both the current system architecture and the storage protocol. This is exacerbated for users connected far from storage data-centers. All measurements used in our analyses are publicly available in anonymized form at the SimpleWeb trace repository: http://traces.simpleweb.org/dropbox/