Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (Summer 2013)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS, 5 (ITIS)
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II -or 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS)
Lecturer:	Xiaoming Fu
Teaching assistant:	Yuan Zhang
Time:	Fridays, 10.15 - 11.45
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced concepts in mobile communication. Each week we will select several fancy papers from some top tier conferences/journals. Students are supposed to read the papers ahead of time and give your review of each paper. The aim of the course is to help the early stage MS/PhD students to develop the required skills of research as well as to get your hand wet on the cut-edge work on mobile communications.

• 12.04.2013 [Session 1]
  • • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Fengyuan Xu et.al V-edge: Fast Self-constructive Power Modeling of Smartphones Based on Battery Voltage Dynamics. NSDI 2013

Grading Policy

The grad consists of four parts

• Homework
• Attendance, participation, and enthusiasm
• Final presentation
• Final report

Final Presentation

• Paper list will be provided before 1st Jun
• Select a paper in the list before 8th Jun
• Deadline of submitting slides: 26th Jun
• Duration: 25-30 minute presentation + 10 minute discussion Tips for preparing slides
  • 15-20 pages, BSc/MSc. thesis format
  • Correct citation of others’ work (figure, sentence, argument, idea, ...)
  • Get your audiences to quickly understand the idea of the paper
  • Animations, figures and tables are better than wordy sentences
  • Use example to explain complicated algorithms
    • Short sentences
    • Avoid complicated equations
    • Summary of the paper: thinking/justification of the paper in your own words (Bonus)

Final Report

• Deadline: 30th Sept
• Objective
  • review the paper and investigate this research field
• Format
  • Title
  • Abstract: a broad overview of the report, end with a short statement of the major results of your investigation
  • Introduction: expands the abstract, get specific about your investigation
  • Related work: unlikely invented something completely new
  • Overview of the paper: what’s important idea of the paper? Bring your reader to the method
  • Main results of the paper
  • Discussion of the paper: give your opinion on the paper
  • Future thoughts along the direction

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:
  • 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 [Paper_Review_Form_ATCN_WS201112.doc]
• 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.
• In 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)
  • essay (12~15 pages) Template:[2]