An InterPlanetary File System Based Picture Archiving and Communication System

Massive image processing systems, such as large scale remote sensing image storage and processing systems, require huge storage capacity as well as low latency for image interpretation. However, state-of-the-art remote sensing image processing systems face challenges including performance constraints and data security and privacy concerns. Therefore, the picture archiving and communication systems must provide the ability in aspects of transmission speed, storage capacity, security authentication and authorization. This paper proposes the Hopacs framework for imaging storage and processing based on edge computing and interplanetary file system. Hopacs outperforms the current picture archiving and communication systems in terms of wider range of full image format support. Moreover, Hopacs utilizes peer to peer file storage and transmission to achieve higher speed transmission, and the speedup of file transmission can scale well then the server numbers of the remote sensing image storage and processing systems increase.