Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (Summer 2011)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Mayutan Arumaithurai, Tianyin Xu, Jiachen Chen
Time:	Fridays, 10.15 - 11.45 (Note: First meeting on 15.04.2011, see #Schedule below)
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced concepts in computer networking. This course is a research seminar (6 ECTS, 2 SWS), held on a weekly base and comprising the following components:

• Weekly paper reading and discussion + Weekly Presentation
• Final Presentation
• Final report

The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature from top tier journal/conference, like ToN, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, IMC, WWW, CoNEXT. The seminar topics include the following:

• Clean slate architectures and future internet
• Online Social Networking (Architecture, User Behavior, Data Collection, Data Analysis)
• xxx

Schedule

• 15.04.2011 [Session 0]
  • File:Introduction ATCN WS1011.pdf
  • Course Introduction (how to read, write....)‏
  • xxx
• 22.04.2011 [Easter Friday, No session]
• Friday, 29.04.2011 [Session 1, Jiachen]
  • Dona: [[2]]
  • Triad: [[3]], [[4]]
  • I3: [[5]]
• Wednesday, 04.05.2011
  • Send reviews by 23:59 for all three papers
  • The review form is available at [6]
  • Send the slide set too
• Friday, 06.05.2011 [Session 2, Mayutan]
  • Each team presents for 15 minutes
• 13.05.2011 [Session 3, Tianyin]
• 20.05.2011 [Session 4, Mayutan]
• 27.05.2011 [Session 5, Tianyin]

Requirements

• Each participant is required to read the selected paper before the seminar and prepare the review of the paper, which should include the following parts (50% weightage):
  • Summary of the paper
  • pros and cons of the paper (your conclusion)
  • NOTE!! Every participant should provide the paper review BEFORE the seminar (23:59 Wednesday). => the review form is available at [7]
• During the seminar, one is chosen for giving the overview of the paper. And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participant.
• At the end of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic (about 4 papers) and prepare:
  • presentation (each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes discussions) (15% weightage for presentation, 15% weightage for asking questions)
    • The participants should send in their presentation slides at least a week before the final presentation
  • report (12~15 pages) Template:[8] (20% weightage)