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Network File Storage With Graceful Performance Degradation
A file storage scheme is proposed for networks containing heterogeneous clients. In the scheme, the
performance measured by file-retrieval delays degrades gracefully under increasingly serious faulty
circumstances. The scheme combines coding with storage for better performance. The problem
is NP-hard for general networks; and this paper focuses on tree networks with asymmetric edges
between adjacent nodes. A polynomial-time memory-allocation algorithm is presented, which
determines how much data to store on each node, with the objective of minimizing the total
amount of data stored in the network. Then a polynomial-time data-interleaving algorithm is used
to determine which data to store on each node for satisfying the quality-of-service requirements in
the scheme. By combining the memory-allocation algorithm with the data-interleaving algorithm,
an optimal solution to realize the file storage scheme in tree networks is established