CAREER: Scalable Self Managing Multimedia Storage

University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Investigators

Abstract

This project develops an incrementally scalable and self-managing platform for profuse media capture and storage using a distributed architecture. The storage is tuned to exploratory environments where video sensors and storage bricks are quickly deployed to profusely capture the environment. The goal of this work is to balance the storage robustness requirements, brick and network capacity. To this end, this work addresses three important research areas: i) self-contained lifetime abstraction that lets the sensors and storage bricks to independently prune and manage the storage without coordination with other system components ii) self-organizing overlay mechanisms to locate candidate storage bricks for storing segments such that the system can be incrementally scalable, and iii) self-management mechanisms using storage replication, migration and rejuvenation to provide the distributed storage. The impact of this research will be to leverage the easy availability of multimedia sensors and extend the relevancy of high fidelity multimedia capture in remote locations without the associated management costs.