Advanced topics in mobile and social computing (AToMSC) (Winter 2020/2021)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.1123.Mp: Specialization Computer Networks Module Description -or- 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS); M.Inf.1123 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Prof. Xiaoming Fu; Sripriya Srikant Adhatarao
Teaching assistant:	N/A
Time:	Thu. 14:00-16:00
Place:	Online via Skype, Link:https://join.skype.com/huhhseKIHE2w
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Announcements

Due to the recent recommendations in the context of Covid-19, we have to schedule this course in a purely online basis. We plan to use some tools and platforms, e.g., zoom or DFNconf. Please register into studIP in advance. The registration deadline is at 23:59 pm on 04 Nov 2020. We will announce which tool will be used before our lectures start. Please contact me by email:adhatarao@cs.uni-goettingen.de if you have any questions.

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced topics in computer networks. This course is 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.doc]
• During each weekly seminar, one participant is assigned for presenting the paper (each presentation is 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: Essay (5~6 pages, double columns, IEEE format) 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 ~5 minutes Q&A

Schedule

• 05 Nov. 2020
  • Informational Meeting

• 12 Nov. 2020
  • Paper Title: Understanding Operational 5G: A First Measurement Study on Its Coverage, Performance and Energy Consumption (Presented by: Amawi, Abdullah )
    • Authors: Dongzhu Xu, Anfu Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Xinyu Zhang (University of California San Diego); Guixian Wang, Xi Liu, Congkai An, Yiming Shi, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

• 19 Nov. 2020
  • Paper Title: Beyond-5G Reliable Extreme Mobility Management (Presented by: Tucholski, Tim )
    • Authors: Yuanjie Li (Hewlett Packard Labs); Qianru Li, Zhehui Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles); Ghufran Baig, Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin); Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles)

• 26 Nov. 2020
  • Paper Title: ABR Streaming with Separate Audio and Video Tracks: Measurements and Best Practices (Presented by: Schneider, Jan)
    • Authors: Yanyuan Qin (University of Connecticut); Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs Research); Bing Wang (University of Connecticut)

• 03 Dec. 2020
  • Paper Title: Server-Driven Video Streaming for Deep Learning Inference (Presented by: AlAjeh Ghannam, Ihab)
    • Authors: Kuntai Du, Ahsan Pervaiz, Xin Yuan (University of Chicago); Aakanksha Chowdhery (Google); Qizheng Zhang, Henry Hoffmann, Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago)

• 10 Dec. 2020
  • No lecture

• 17 Dec. 2020
  • Paper Title: Reducto: On-Camera Filtering for Resource-Efficient Real-Time Video Analytics (Presented by: Amawi, Abdullah)
    • Authors: Yuanqi Li, Arthi Padmanabhan, Pengzhan Zhao, Yufei Wang, Guoqing Harry Xu, Ravi Netravali (UCLA)

• 24 Dec. 2020
  • No lecture

• 31 Dec. 2020
  • No lecture

• 7 Jan. 2021
  • No lecture

• 14 Jan. 2021
  • Paper Title: Neural-Enhanced Live Streaming: Improving Live Video Ingest via Online Learning (Presented by: AlAjeh Ghannam, Ihab)
    • Authors: Jaehong Kim, Youngmok Jung, Hyunho Yeo, Juncheol Ye, Dongsu Han (KAIST)

• 21 Jan. 2021
  • Paper Title: Edge Assisted Real-time Object Detection for Mobile Augmented Reality (Presented by: Tucholski, Tim)
    • Authors: Luyang Liu, Hongyu Li, Marco Gruteser (WINLAB, Rutgers University)

• 28 Jan. 2021
  • Paper Title: Concurrent Entanglement Routing for Quantum Networks: Model and Designs (Presented by: Schneider, Jan)
    • Authors: Shouqian Shi, Chen Qian (University of California, Santa Cruz)

List of Papers for Final Presentations & Report

• • Paper Title: DIRECT: Distributed Cross-Domain Resource Orchestration in Cellular Edge Computing (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Qiang Liu, Tao Han (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
  • Paper Title: Classic Meets Modern: a Pragmatic Learning-Based Congestion Control for the Internet (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Soheil Abbasloo, Chen-Yu Yen, H. Jonathan Chao (NYU)
  • Paper Title: Optimal Strategies for Live Video Streaming in the Low-latency Regime (Short paper) (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Liyang Sun, Tongyu Zong, Yong Liu, Yao Wang (New York University); Haihong Zhu (Futurewei Technologies)
  • Paper Title: AMP up your mobile web experience: Characterizing the impact of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Project (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Byungjin Jun, Fabián E. Bustamante, Sung Yoon Whang (Northwestern University); Zachary S. Bischof (IIJ Research)
  • Paper Title: Jigsaw: Robust Live 4K Video Streaming (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Ghufran Baig, Jian He, Mubashir Adnan Qureshi, Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin); Peng Chen, Yinliang Hu (Huawei)
  • Paper Title: Routing on Multiple Optimality Criteria (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: João Luís Sobrinho, Miguel Alves Ferreira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
  • Paper Title: EasyPass: Combating IoT Delay with Multiple Access Wireless Side Channels (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Haoyang Lu, Ruirong Chen, Wei Gao (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Paper Title: Learning to Coordinate Video Codec with Transport Protocol for Mobile Video Telephony (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Anfu Zhou, Huanhuan Zhang, Guangyuan Su, Leilei Wu, Ruoxuan Ma, Zhen Meng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Xinyu Zhang (University of California San Diego); Xiufeng Xie (Hewlett Packard Labs); Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Xiaojiang Chen (Alibaba Inc.)
  • Paper Title: Perceiving QUIC: Do Users Notice or Even Care? (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Jan Rüth, Konrad Wolsing, Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University); Oliver Hohlfeld (Brandenburg University of Technology)
  • Paper Title: AViC: A Cache for Adaptive Bitrate Video (Presented by: XXX )
    • Authors: Zahaib Akhtar, Yaguang Li, Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California); Emir Halepovic, Shuai Hao (AT&T Labs Research); Yan Liu (University of Southern California); Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Labs Research)

Final Presentations & Report

• Final Registration in FlexNow: Jan 28th 2021.

• Final Presentation:
  • Each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

• Final Presentation Slots:

• 04 Feb. 2021
  • (Place Holder) Ngiam, Jiquan, et al, StarNet: Targeted Computation for Object Detection in Point Clouds, 2019. (Presented by XXXX)

• 11 Feb. 2021
  • (Place Holder) Ngiam, Jiquan, et al, StarNet: Targeted Computation for Object Detection in Point Clouds, 2019. (Presented by XXX)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (~8 pages, single column, IEEE format: https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-journal-article/authoring-tools-and-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/)
  • Due by 23:59pm 31 March 2021