My PhD thesis is entitled ``Cooperative Data Backup for Mobile Devices''. The topic itself stems from the MoSAIC project (which has nothing to do with an ancient web browser). The thesis started on October 1^st, 2004, and was defended on November 23^rd, 2007. You can download it in from here:

• dissertation in English: PDF, OpenPGP detached signature;
• extended summary in French: PDF, OpenPGP detached signature;
• concatenation of both: PDF, OpenPGP detached signature;
• slides of the talk: PDF, OpenPGP detached signature.
• permanent link at TEL
• permanent link at INP Toulouse (with slightly modified PDF meta-data)

Comments are welcome!

Below is a sorted bibliography of papers related to the project's topic with personal comments and summaries. Featured bibliography themes are:

• Peer-to-Peer Distributed Storage
• Peer-to-Peer Economic Models
• Peer-to-Peer Transport Layers
• Peer-to-Peer Data Placement and Lookup
• Miscellaneous Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Backup and Archival Systems
• Versioning
• File Systems
• Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks and Their Applications
• Fault-tolerance in Mobile Systems
• Coding Theory, Erasure Codes
• Delay-Tolerant Networks
• Cryptographic Tools
• Modeling and Evaluation
• Operating Systems and Programming Languages

Each paper has a link to an automatically generated BibTeX entry which might be somewhat broken (please, tell me if this is the case). Lout users may use the rtr bibliography converter while Skribilo and Skribe users may of course use skribebibtex.

The following image shows the evolution of the number of bibliography entries since November 18^th, 2004: