Fault-Tolerance and Load-Balance Tradeoff in a Distributed Storage System

Abstract

Abstract. In recent years distributed storage systems have been the object of increasing interest by the research community. They promise improvements on information availability, security and integrity. Nevertheless, at this point in time, there is no a predominant approach, but a wide spectrum of proposals in the literature. In this paper we report our findings with a combination of redundancy techniques intended to simultaneously provide fault tolerance and load balance in a small-scale distributed storage system. Based on our analysis, we provide general guidelines for system designers and developers under similar conditions.