T-07S-05

Distributed Filesystem for Wireless Mesh Networks

Assigned to: Felix Bechstein

Advisor: Anatolij Zubow

Expected Submission: December 2007

Problem Statement

• Which problem do you want to solve?
• To which domain of Computer Science does this problem relate to?
• Why is the problem interesting? Why is it difficult?

Deliverables

• At the end of the project, what will you have delivered?
  • A basic distributed (high-performance) filesystem, using only the DHT.
  • An interface to that filesystem in fuse or nfs, to mount it.
• What does it mean that the project was successful?
  • The filesystem's performance is sufficient for class- or upgrade-distribution.

Prior Art

• Who are your competitors? What are they doing?
• How is your work different?
• List of publications related to your topic.

Key Ideas / Project Execution Plan

• How will you approach the problem?
• On which contributions of others do you depend on?

Project Log

• What you have done so far? What You plan to do next?