Collaboration-Oriented Data Recovery for Mobile Disk Arrays

Mobile disk arrays, disk arrays located in mobile data centers, are crucial for mobile applications such as disaster recovery. Due to their unusual application domains, mobile disk arrays face several new challenges including harsh operating environments, very limited power supply, and extremely small number of spare disks. Consequently, data reconstruction schemes for mobile disk arrays must be performance-driven, reliability-aware, and energy-efficient. In this paper, we develop a flash assisted data reconstruction strategy called CORE (collaboration-oriented reconstruction) on top of a hybrid disk array architecture, where hard disks and flash disks collaborate to shorten data reconstruction time, alleviate performance degradation during disk recovery. Experimental results demonstrate that CORE noticeably improves the performance and energy-efficiency over existing schemes.