Virtual USB drive: A key component for smart home storage architecture

As home digital data grow rapidly and some home digital data require storage management from household members, a smart home storage design becomes a critical issue. This paper proposes key requirements for designing smart home storage and analyzes existing storage solutions. Moreover, we demonstrate that our virtual USB drive, plugged into a USB port of any home digital device to give an easy access to pre-designated home shared storage (local disks of desktops) and further to outsourced cloud storage, can be adopted as a key component for the smart home storage design.