A Method of Extending Document Collaborative Editing Function of Netdisks in Cloud Environment

Nowadays, netdisks have played an important role in our life. The main problem of those netdisks is that they generally provide functions of file storage and retrieve, but fail to support document collaborative editing. In this paper, we analyse architectures of the general netdisks and propose a method to expand the function of document collaborative editing for netdisks. Based on the extended method, we further design, implement a document collaborative editing system named DAVOffice, and combine it to a netdisks interface. Extensive experiments are conducted and the results verify that the proposed method is reasonable, easy to combine netdisks and extend collaborative editing functions for netdisks. Specifically, the proposed method can effectively expand applications of netdisks and this connection has achieved lower communication traffic compared with several similar well-known products.