Content Espresso: A System for Large File Sharing Using Globally Dispersed Storage

Abstract

Sharing files over the world with higher access throughput and with lower storage cost is a growing demand for the applications that use large files. However, the existing file sharing systems do not realize these two conflicted requests and no research has been found. This paper clarifies the requirements of a global large file sharing system and defines the design goal consisting of three users perspectives: fast retrieving, user defined file availability, and owner-based file management, and one system operators perspective: flexibility in bytes placement. Content Espresso satisfies this goal by approaching with four techniques: three sections model, distributed chunk storage, forward error correction, and UDP retrieving. Content Espresso delivers large files to a client utilizing as much bandwidth as the client access link even servers are located far away from the client.