PERSONAL MOBILE STORAGE SHARING

Abstract

In this era of Mobile devices, every user is willing to use mobile devices, which are capable of providing high performance, and which can provides more storage spaces. People are getting aware about using various cloud-based applications provided by network operator and service providers. Among those applications, there are multiple cloud-based usability’s which provide the access to the Cloud Storage. There are many cloud-based application available which provide private storage, such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Cloud, Dropbox, etc. All of them store date on cloud servers. Even though these are secured still data is exposed to service provider so there is always a risk of data being stolen by some hackers or intruders. We are living in the era of smartphones, every user is having a smart phone with different storage capabilities such as 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 GB of space and even more storage is going to be embedded in near future. We always find some user, which are not using even 50% of total available storage in their smartphone, which remains unused throughout the lifetime of Mobile device. Therefore, in this Major Project – II, we propose a new framework, which provides a system where a user can share his device's free or unused storage space with other users. Consider a family; where we have n members with n different mobile devices then the aggregated free storage space of all n number of mobile phones can be used as common private storage. The proposed system is called Personal Mobile Storage Sharing (PMS-Sharing). PMS-Sharing enables user to form a local group of users and allow them to access shared storage directory. The system removes dependencies on cloud storage service provider to store the data on servers in order to access it anywhere around the globe. User’s data is stored on the devices within the known group of family members, by this way his data is safe and reachable physically in case network is not available due to some natural hazard. PMS Sharing will be very useful application for the military, secure forces, corporate network, and for those users who do not want to upload their personal data on cloud-storage service and user does not know physical location of storage.