| We have developed a prototype of a distributed filesystem where the
remote storage function is performed by computers on the Internet that
are not willingly providing storage service. Parasitic storage exploits
the sloppy accounting of resources that is prevalent in Internet
protocols. Compliance with RFCs essentially implies participation in
our parasitic storage system.
Participants: Dan Guido
Kurt Rosenfeld
Nasir Memon
Taha Sencar
Resources:Volleystore: A Parasitic Storage Framework
Abstract:
We present Volleystore, a filesystem that stores data on network
equipment and servers without any authorization, yet without
compromising the systems that are used. This is achieved by exploiting
the echo functionality present in most standard Internet protocols.
Various issues concerning the design of a parasitic storage system
are addressed and a practical system based on Internet Control
Message Protocol (ICMP) echo messages is demonstrated. We present
an analysis of storage capacity and latency limits for various
configurations of the system. We also describe a proof-of-concept
implementation of the system and show that one can indeed store
data using Volleystore for a reasonable lengths of time. We further
address the necessary modifications to be made in order to avoid
parasitic storage systems.
BibTeX:
@INPROCEEDINGS{4267544,
title={Volleystore: A Parasitic Storage Framework},
author={Rosenfeld, K. and Sencar, H.T. and Memon, N.},
journal={Information Assurance and Security Workshop, 2007. IAW '07. IEEE SMC},
year={2007},
month={June},
volume={},
number={},
pages={67-75},
keywords={Internet, protocols, storage area networks,
Internet Control Message Protocol, Volleystore, echo functionality,
echo messages, fllesystem, latency limits, network equipment,
network servers, parasitic storage framework, storage capacity},
doi={10.1109/IAW.2007.381916},
ISSN={}, }
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