OmniStore: A system for ubiquitous personal storage management

Abstract

As personal area networking becomes a reality, the collective management of storage in portable devices such as mobile phones, cameras and music players will grow in importance. The increasing wireless communication capability of such devices makes it possible for them to interact with each other and implement more advanced storage functionality. This paper introduces OmniStore, a system which employs a unified data management approach that integrates portable and backend storage, but also exhibits self-organizing behavior through spontaneous device collaboration. © 2006 IEEE.