Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people communicate and
interact. They have enabled the establishment of, and participation in, digital communities as …

Nowadays, the growing necessity for secure and private off-site storage motivates the
appearance of novel storage infrastructures. In this sense, it is increasingly common to find …

The sensitive data stored in the public cloud by privileged users, such as corporate
companies and government agencies are highly vulnerable in the hands of cloud providers …

Today's public cloud services suffer from fundamental privacy issues, eg, as demonstrated
by the global surveillance disclosures. The lack of privacy in cloud computing stems from its …

Personal Clouds, such as DropBox and Box, provide open REST APIs for developers to
create clever applications that make their service even more attractive. These APIs are a …

In the last few years, we have seen a rapid expansion of social networking. Digital
relationships between individuals are becoming capital for turning to one another for …

Consumers continue to produce and spend a huge amount of data using consumer
electronic devices. To store consumers' data, a huge volume of storage is needed. A cloud …

Personal storage is a mainstream service used by millions of users. Among the existing
alternatives, Friend-to-Friend (F2F) systems are aimed to leverage a secure and private off …

Increases in the size of research data and the move towards citizen science, in which
everyday users contribute data and analyses, have resulted in a research data deluge …

Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems aggregate spare storage resources from end
users to build a large collaborative online storage solution. In these systems, however, the …