Some Sample Project Titles from Previous Years
Efficient Graph Repartitioning in Distributed Graph Processing
Minimizing Commit Latency in Geo-replicated Transactions
A Distributed Web-Crawler to Download and Analyze Craigslist Housing Data
Building Forensics Enabled Cloud Through Secure Logging-as-a-Service
Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Placement in Heterogeneous Cloud Data Center
Benchmarking VM startup Time in the cloud
A Distributed Approach for Determining the Most Influential Spreader in a Social Network
Spark for Mobile Cloud Computing
Energy Efficient VM Placement in Cloud Data Centers
Optimization of MapReduce on Hadoop by Automating the Setting of Job Configuration Parameters
Design a Dynamic Searchable Encryption Scheme by Cloud Server Operation Reserving Multi-keyword Ranked Search
Analysis of connection discovery in yelp review networks using k-core decomposition.
Development of An Intelligent Knowledge Base for Acquiring Raw Data
Efficiently from Multiple Coordinated Distributed File Systems
Multi-Site Computation Offloading Using Map Reduce Framework in Mobile Cloud Computing
Controlling of Multiple Account Management for IoT devices Using Cloud Server
Defence Against the Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
ShardClusterChain: A Hybrid Approach of Sharding and Clustering for Low-Latency Private Blockchain Systems
Deep learning (CNN and GNN ) on distributed cloud clusters
Predicting Tail Latency in Serverless Functions For Automatic DNN Model Partitioning
DEPART: Replica Decoupling for Distributed Key-Value Storage
Resilient Load Balancing Infrastructure: Active-Passive HAProxy with Keepalived and Grafana Monitoring
Distributed Online Deep Isolation Forest
Distributed Approach for Determining the Most Influential Spreader in a Social Network
Botnet Attack Detection Using Federated Deep Learning in the Internet of Things Networks
Faster Analytics in Distributed Database
Intelligent adaptive Load Balancing for Web Servers using request weight.
Secured and efficient cloud documents indexing for NoSQL in a distributed system
Geo-replicated Data Stores
Big Data in Online Social Networks
Clock Synchronization in Distributed Systems
Distributed File System
Transactions on Distributed Data
Distributed Graph Processing
Mobile Cloud Computing
Green Cloud Computing
Security and Privacy for Distributed Computing
Few links for possible sources of the papers/ project ideas:
VLDB, SIGMOD, PODS, PODC 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
SoCC, IEEE Cloud 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Usenix NSDI, OSDI, SOSP, ATC 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
IEEE ICDCS, ICDE, TPDS 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source of other good conferences [Focus ONLY on the Rank 1 conferences]
You need to do a research work (worth of doing within a semester). There will be four checkpoints for this work -
Project proposal [5-10 minutes ppt presentation]: Due within 5th week [Deadline: December 09, 2025]
Progress report [5-10 minutes ppt presentation]: Due just after mid-term
Final presentation [15-20 minutes ppt presentation]: Due within penultimate week
Project report [A paper-style report (10-12 pages) on the project work in Latex following IEEE/ACM paper format]
Evaluation will be made based on the above deliverable.
Target Conferences for Paper submission:
You should submit your work to one of the following conferences:
IEEE Big Data 2026 IEEE International Conference on Big Data [Deadline: ]
CIDR 2026: International Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research [Deadline: ]
WSDM 2026: The 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining [Deadline:]
AAAI 2026: Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [Deadline: ]
ICDE 2026: IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) [Deadline:]
IC2E 2026: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering [Deadline: ]
NSDI 2026: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation [Deadline:]
SIGMOD 2026: ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference [Deadline: ]
EUROSYS 2026: ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) [Deadline: ]
SAC 2026: ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing [Deadline: ]