Journal article

Networking for Big Data: A Survey

S Yu, M Liu, W Dou, X Liu, S Zhou

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials | IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC | Published : 2017

Abstract

Complementary to the fancy big data applications, networking for big data is an indispensable supporting platform for these applications in practice. This emerging research branch has gained extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years. In this new territory, researchers are facing many unprecedented theoretical and practical challenges. We are therefore motivated to solicit the latest works in this area, aiming to pave a comprehensive and solid starting ground for interested readers. We first clarify the definition of networking for big data based on the cross disciplinary nature and integrated needs of the domain. Second, we present the current understanding of big d..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China


Funding Acknowledgements

This paper is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 91318301, No. 61672276, and No. 61379041; the Key Research and Development Project of Jiangsu Province under Grant No. BE2015154 and BE2016120; and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology. (Corresponding author: Wanchun Dou.)