Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (ATCN) 2019

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations) -or- 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS); M.Inf.1223 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Prof. Xiaoming Fu; Dr. Yali Yuan
Teaching assistant:	[]
Time:	Thu. 14:00-16:00
Place:	IfI 0.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced topics in computer networks. This course is a theory-oriented research seminar (5 ECTS, 2 SWS), held on a weekly base and comprising the following components:

• Weekly Presentation + Weekly Paper Reading and Discussion
• Final Presentation
• Final Report

The material in the seminar is mainly drawn from the research literature in top journals/conferences, like ToN,TMC, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, INFOCOM, MOBICOM, MOBIHOC, WWW, CoNEXT.

Requirements

• Each participant is required to read the assigned 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 each weekly seminar, one participant is assigned for presenting the paper (each presentation for ~30 minutes). And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participants.
• In the middle of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic and prepare:
  • Final report: prepare an essay (8~9 pages, single column) for your chosen research topic, which contains a comprehensive literature survey + a detailed discussion of some key enabling technologies
  • Final presentation: each presentation for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

Presentation Schedule

TBD

Schedule

• 18 October 2018
  • Informational Meeting

• 25 October 2018
  • Tracking and localization
    • Zhiyuan Lin, Tim Althoff and Jure Leskovec, I’ll Be Back: On the Multiple Lives of Users of a Mobile Activity Tracking Application, ACM WWW 2018. (Presented by Cong Li)

• 1 November 2018
  • Tracking and localization
    • Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin, Yurong Jiang and Kyu-Han Kim, Locating and Tracking BLE Beacons with Smartphones, ACM CoNEXT 2018. (Presented by Robert Tasik)

• 8 November 2018
  • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
    • Krishna, Kundan and Jain, Deepali and Mehta, Sanket V and Choudhary, Sunav, An LSTM Based System for Prediction of Human Activities with Durations, ACM UbiComp 2018. (Presented by Yuhan Wang)

• 15 November 2018
  • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
    • Fang, Biyi and Zeng, Xiao and Zhang, Mi, NestDNN: Resource-Aware Multi-Tenant On-Device Deep Learning for Continuous Mobile Vision, ACM MOBICOM 2018. (Presented by Fangxi Deng)

• 22 November 2018
  • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
    • He, Ying and Yu, F Richard and Zhao, Nan and Leung, Victor CM and Yin, Hongxi, Software-Defined Networks with Mobile Edge Computing and Caching for Smart Cities: A Big Data Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Communications Magazine 2017. (Presented by Tasnia Ashrafi Heya)

• 29 November 2018
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
    • Petrangeli, Stefano and Swaminathan, Viswanathan and Hosseini, Mohammad and De Turck, Filip, An HTTP/2-Based Adaptive Streaming Framework for 360° Virtual Reality Videos, ACM MM 2017. (Presented by Jiaquan Zhang)

• 6 December 2018
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
    • Xie, Lan and Xu, Zhimin and Ban, Yixuan and Zhang, Xinggong and Guo, Zongming, 360ProbDASH: Improving QoE of 360 Video Streaming Using Tile-based HTTP Adaptive Streaming, ACM MM 2017. (Presented by Gulzaib Amjad)

• 13 December 2018
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
    • Abdelhak Bentaleb, Alic. Begen, Saad Harous and Roger Zimmermann, A Distributed Approach for Bitrate Selection in HTTP Adaptive Streaming, ACM MM 2018. (Presented by Jiaquan Zhang) (This paper is only for Jiaquan Zhang. Other students do not need to submit review report.)
    • Wijnants, Maarten and Marx, Robin and Quax, Peter and Lamotte, Wim, HTTP/2 Prioritization and its Impact on Web Performance, ACM WWW 2018. (Presented by Jonas Hügel)

• 20 December 2018
  • Wireless Content Caching
    • Guo, Peizhen and Hu, Bo and Li, Rui and Hu, Wenjun, FoggyCache: Cross-Device Approximate Computation Reuse, ACM MOBICOM 2018. (Presented by Yachao Shao)

• 22 December 2018 & 06 January 2019[Holiday]
  • No Lecture, Paper pre-reading by students

• 10 January 2019
  • Wireless Content Caching
    • Xu, Jie and Chen, Lixing and Zhou, Pan, Joint Service Caching and Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing in Dense Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2018. (Presented by Shichang Ding)

• 11 January 2019~ 31 January 2019
  • Final presentation and report preparation

Final Presentations & Report

• Final Registration in FlexNow: 15th January 2019.

• Topics:
  • Wireless Content Caching
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
  • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
  • Tracking and localization

• Pre-Presentation (Rehearsal):
• 17 January 2019 (All students are required to come this time except the special case. Otherwise, you can not attend the final presentation.)
  • • All students are divided into three group. Group 1: Jonas Hügel, Cong Li and Yachao Shao. Group 2: Tasnia Ashrafi Heya, Shichang Ding and Yuhan Wang. Group 3: Gulzaib Amjad, Robert Tasik and Fangxi Deng. From 14:00pm to 14:30pm, students within the group will help each other to check presentations. After that, we will discuss together for all students. Please take your laptop or your print version PPT to this course.

• Final Presentation:
  • Each for ~20 minutes, plus ~5 minutes Q&A (Please make sure that your presentation time is within 20 minutes)

• Final Presentation Slots:
• 24 January 2019 (The course time is from 13:50pm to 16:00pm)
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
    • Chao Wu, Wenwu Zhu, Qiushi Li and Yaoxue Zhang, Rethinking HTTP Adaptive Streaming with the Mobile User Perception, ACM Multimedia 2017. (Presented by Gulzaib Amjad)
    • Erwin Adi, Zubair Baig and Philip Hingston, Stealthy Denial of Service (DoS) attack modelling and detection for HTTP/2 services, Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2018. (Presented by Yuhan Wang)
  • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
    • Liangying Peng, Ling Chen, Zhenan Ye and Yi Zhang, AROMA: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Based Simple and Complex Human Activity Recognition Method Using Wearable Sensors, ACM UbiComp 2018. (Presented by Yachao Shao)
    • Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Huajie Shao, Chao Zhang, Aston Zhang, Shaohan Hu, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Liu, Lu su and Tarek Abdelzaher, SenseGAN: Enabling Deep Learning for Internet of Things with a Semi-Supervised Framework, ACM UbiComp 2018. (Presented by Tasnia Ashrafi Heya)
    • Abhinav Mehrotra and Mirco Musolesi, Using Autoencoders to Automatically Extract Mobility Features for Predicting Depressive States, ACM UbiComp 2018. (Presented by Shichang Ding)

• 31 January 2019
  • Wireless Content Caching
    • Soumya Basu, Aditya Sundarrajan, Javad Ghaderi, Sanjay Shakkottai and Ramesh Sitaraman, Adaptive TTL-Based Caching for Content Delivery, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2018. (Presented by Jonas Hügel)
    • Jie Xu, Lixing Chen and Pan Zhou, Joint Service Caching and Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing in Dense Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2018. (Presented by Cong Li)
  • Tracking and localization
    • Andreas Pfrunder, Paulo V. K. Borges, Adrian R. Romero, Gavin Catt and Alberto Elfes, Real-time autonomous ground vehicle navigation in heterogeneous environments using a 3D LiDAR, IEEE IROS 2017. (Presented by Robert Tasik)
    • Yunting Zhang, Jiliang Wang, Weiyi Wang, Zhao Wang and Yunhao Liu, Vernier: Accurate and Fast Acoustic Motion Tracking Using Mobile Devices, IEEE INFOCOM 2018. (Presented by Fangxi Deng)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (5~6 pages, double columns, IEEE format)
  • Due by 23:59pm 28 Feb. 2019