Cloud Computing and Big Data (Spring 2020)

• Syllabus

Lectures

• 10-03-2014 Week01: Introduction to Cloud Computing

• 17-03-2014 Week02: Introduction to Big Data

• 27-03-2014 Week03: Virtualization

• 31-03-2014 Week04: Scalable Web Applications in Cloud

• 07-04-2014 Week05: Computer Networking -  A Primer 

• 09-04-2014 Week05: Datacenter Networking

• 14-04-2014 Week06: MapReduce

• 21-04-2014 Week07: Mobile Cloud Computing

• 28-04-2014 Week08: Performance Measurement of Cloud-hosted Applications 

• 30-05-2014 Week08: Introduction to NoSQL

• 06-05-2014 Week 09: Revision 

• 13-05-2014 Week 10: Midterm

• 19-05-2014 Week 11: Distributed Hash Table

• 26-05-2014 Week 12: Internet of Things

• 02-06-2014 Week 13: Introduction to Data Mining 

• 04-06-2014 Week 13: Web Application Deployment Models

• 09-06-2014 Week 14: Student Presentations

• 16-06-2014 Week 15: Student Presentations 

• 23-06-2014 Week 16: Security Issues in Cloud Computing

• 30-06-2014 Week 17: Revision and Thesis Topics

Project Deliverables

• Deliverable 01: Know your project (Report Submission Template)

• Deliverable 02: Main use case of the application (Report Submission Template)

• Deliverable 03: Performance analysis of the application on EC2 (Report Submission Template)

• Deliverable 04: NoSQL implementation and tier separation (Report Submission Template)

• Deliverable 05: Auto Scaling Web Server Tier (Report Submission Template)

Presentation Schedule 

Fall

Research Papers

Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems:

1. SPORC: Group Collaboration using Untrusted Cloud Resources (OSDI 2010)

2. Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage (OSDI, 2010)

3. Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent when Necessary (OSDI 2012)

4. SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store (SOSP 2011)

5. CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing (SOSP 2011)

6. Hails: Protecting Data Privacy in Untrusted Web Applications (OSDI 2012)

7. Resilient Distributed Datasets: A fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing (NSDI 2012)

8. DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language (OSDI 2008)

9. Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud  (VLDB 2014)

10. When the Network Crumbles: An Empirical Study of Cloud Network Failures and their Impact on Services (SoCC 13)

11. Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink? (SoCC 13)

12. An analysis of Facebook photo caching (SOSP 2013)

13. Diglossia: Detecting Code Injection Attacks with Precision and Efficiency (ACM CCS2013)

14. Tolerating Business Failures in Hosted Applications (SoCC 2013)

15. Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage (SOSP 2013)

16. Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases (SOSP 2013)

17. Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service (SoCC 2013)

18. Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database (OSDI 2012)

19. Cloud-enabled wireless body area networks for pervasive healthcare

Networks:

1. BCube: A High Performance, Server-centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers

2. Deadline-Aware Datacenter TCP (D2TCP)

3. A survey on TCP Incast in data center network

4. Data Center TCP (DCTCP)

5. On Mitigating TCP Incast in Data Center Networks

6. Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP

7.  PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric

8. VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network