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Advanced Performance Modeling

Goals

• Develop performance prediction models and software framework for high-bandwidth networks
• Develop a performance prediction tool for network traffic

Accomplishments

• Developed overall performance inference and prediction framework
• Inference of edge-to-edge network traffic
• Enabling prediction, tracing and quantifying the network traffic with partial observations
• Edge-to-edge transfer throughput inference using link utilization counts
• Network traffic prediction model
• * Improved efficiency and accuracy of prediction by adaptive models
• Over the last ~3 years, 7 paper publications, 4 papers in preparation, 2 invited talks, 1 provisional patent, 2 software prototypes

Impact

• Enable scientific collaborations to utilize the resources offered by high-bandwidth network infrastructures more effectively
• Improve network usage and enable predictable data throughput
• Long-term capacity and traffic engineering planning of network infrastructures