An auxiliary storage subsystem of storage space hidden for user data to distributed computing systems

Abstract

The handheld computing device demonstrates its mobility nowadays, being furnished by distributed computing resources in a form similar to the thin client. The distributed computing systems such as Cloud supports user data with their storages implying that the users let their data be under control of the Cloud system. However it is not an acceptable premise to many users. For these users, an auxiliary storage subsystem is proposed in a new model of remote storage to mobilize the user data of external storages in this work. The iSCSI devices could be connected to the distributed computing system through the storage subsystem as needed. iSCSI is a recent, standard, and widely deployed protocol for storage networking, and the subsystem is able to accommodate many types of storages outside of the distributed computing system. The proposed subsystem could supply the user data at places near the distributed computing systems and showed an improved transmission of user data in the experimentation. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.