TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gupta, Vijay Shivshanker
AB - Wide-area wireless mobile computing environments present interesting challenges for the problem of file synchronization between laptop computers and servers in backbone networks. Wide-area wireless networks are bandwidth-constrained and expensive, thereby making it difficult to synchronize the files in an eager fashion. The problem of file synchronization for laptop computers has been actively studied for more than a decade, and one of the most intriguing questions has been "how little communication is sufficient for file synchronization?" Technically, this is equivalent to the question: "what is the communication complexity for file synchronization?" This article proves the undecidability of the communication complexity for update propagation in a replicated file system if one is willing to transmit operation-based updates.
TI - Communication complexity for file synchronization is undecidable
JF - ACM SIGACT News
DO - 10.1145/582475.582476
DA - 2002-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/communication-complexity-for-file-synchronization-is-undecidable-RG4qy1NwnO
SP - 110
VL - 33
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -