Decentralized Network Bandwidth Prediction and Node Search

My PhD research addresses how to exploit network bandwidth information and increase the performance of data-intensive wide-area distributed applications. The goal is to solve four specific problems: i) design a decentralized algorithm for network bandwidth prediction, ii) design a decentralized algorithm to find bandwidth-constrained clusters, iii) design a decentralized algorithm to find bandwidth-constrained centroids, and iv) develop a wide-area MapReduce system with optimized data locality as an application of the three algorithms for bandwidth prediction and node search.