The literature survey discusses two papers that propose methods to improve MapReduce performance in Hadoop clusters. The first paper designs a data placement approach that initially distributes data files to nodes based on their computing capacity. It also includes algorithms to redistribute data to address skew caused by dynamic changes. The second paper presents an adaptive slot allocation mechanism called TuMM that dynamically tunes the map and reduce slot ratios based on prior job characteristics to minimize job completion times. Both papers aim to improve resource utilization and reduce job completion times in Hadoop clusters.