Thrift: optimizing performance in complex mobile internet applications with network coding

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Users of complex Internet applications, such as navigation with augmented reality, have become increasingly mobile, using a wide range of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, and ultraportable notebook computers. These applications require services from public or enterprise cloud computing platforms, in order to share application data, keep application states persistent across sessions, and collaborate with other users. As users demand more complex functionality from these applications, and as the burden of storage and communication is shifted to the cloud, an integrated design of both cloud computing and Internet communication protocols is required in order to meet user expectations on performance. The objective of this research is to design new algorithms and protocols that are optimized for performance in mobile Internet applications, and that combine the malleability of new mobile Internet applications and the availability of abundant storage and computation power in data centres in cloud computing platforms.