Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Distributed File System for an Edge-Based Environment   Recent developments in the industry of personal computing led to a greater
number of the so-called edge devices. Such devices typically do not collaborate
or foresee the possibility of collaboration to offer aggregated storage and
computing capabilities. The concept of distributed file system (DFS) is not new
to the field of distributed systems, in fact, it is widely used in dedicated
infrastructures, for example, in cloud computing applications.
  In this work, we discuss reasonable assumptions for an environment composed
of edge devices, the main design issues and implementation challenges of a DFS
in the given environment and how they would impact this application. Thereafter
we define a system model for an environment composed of edge devices while
taking into consideration their high mobility and common cases of network
partitioning. Next, we describe an architecture for a DFS that withstands the
proposed system model while offering most capabilities that a DFS at a
dedicated infrastructure would.
  We conclude that the development of a distributed file system is a very
complex task and, given the broad assumptions of the system model, also hard to
verify. Some important aspects of the development lie as future work, but we
believe that the developed DFS can be used not only as a tool on it's own, but
also as a reference for further development of distributed file systems and,
specially, of systems for infrastructures composed of edge devices.

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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph