Challenges of Distributed Storage Systems in Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of things presents a general concept of the strength of different network devices to sense and collect important information from the world around it, and then it share this information across the internet where it accessed, processed and utilized for various other interesting purposes. This concept of internet of things will be an integrated part of the future internet. But in order to gain more benefits, it is essential to store heterogeneous data captured by various devices for further analysis. But it requires vast amount of storage space which cannot be handled using traditional centralized storage system. So it is achieved using the concept of distributed storage systems and the growth of these storage devices impose many challenges related to topologies and interconnection protocols, data consistency, error handling, security and privacy, etc. Ensuring security and privacy to the users is a major challenge considering the sensitive, personal or confidential nature of the data stored in the system. This chapter, discusses various issues related to fusion, privacy, security and trust in distributed storage systems.