Large-scale analysis of docker images and performance implications for container storage systems

N Zhao, V Tarasov, H Albahar, A Anwar… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Docker containers have become a prominent solution for supporting modern enterprise
applications due to the highly desirable features of isolation, low overhead, and efficient …

Efficient container assignment and layer sequencing in edge computing

J Lou, H Luo, Z Tang, W Jia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Containers are becoming a popular way of running applications in edge computing. Before
running the application, the edge node must download the application's container image …

The dilemma between deduplication and locality: Can both be achieved?

X Zou, J Yuan, P Shilane, W Xia, H Zhang… - … USENIX conference on …, 2021 - usenix.org
Data deduplication is widely used to reduce the size of backup workloads, but it has the
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …

Building a high-performance fine-grained deduplication framework for backup storage with high deduplication ratio

X Zou, W Xia, P Shilane, H Zhang, X Wang - 2022 USENIX Annual …, 2022 - usenix.org
Fine-grained deduplication, which first removes identical chunks and then eliminates
redundancies between similar but non-identical chunks (ie, delta compression), could …

LOFS: A lightweight online file storage strategy for effective data deduplication at network edge

G Cheng, D Guo, L Luo, J Xia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing responds to users' requests with low latency by storing the relevant files at
the network edge. Various data deduplication technologies are currently employed at edge …

When deduplication meets migration: An efficient and adaptive strategy in distributed storage systems

G Cheng, L Luo, J Xia, D Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional migration methods are confronted with formidable challenges when data
deduplication technologies are incorporated. First, the deduplication creates data-sharing …

From hyper-dimensional structures to linear structures: Maintaining deduplicated data's locality

X Zou, J Yuan, P Shilane, W Xia, H Zhang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data deduplication is widely used to reduce the size of backup workloads, but it has the
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …

Exploring the unchartered space of container registry typosquatting

G Liu, X Gao, H Wang, K Sun - 31st USENIX Security Symposium …, 2022 - usenix.org
With the increasing popularity of containerized applications, container registries have hosted
millions of repositories that allow developers to store, manage, and share their software …

Inde: An inline data deduplication approach via adaptive detection of valid container utilization

L Lin, Y Deng, Y Zhou, Y Zhu - ACM Transactions on Storage, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Inline deduplication removes redundant data in real-time as data is being sent to the storage
system. However, it causes data fragmentation: logically consecutive chunks are physically …

Secure and efficient data deduplication in jointcloud storage

D Zhang, J Le, N Mu, J Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data deduplication can efficiently eliminate data redundancies in cloud storage and reduce
the bandwidth requirement of users. However, most previous schemes depending on the …