Advanced topics in mobile and social computing (AToMSC) (Winter 2021/2022)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.1222.Mp: Specialization Computer Networks Module Description -or- 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS); M.Inf.1223 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Prof. Xiaoming Fu; Dr. Tingting Yuan
Teaching assistant:	[NA]
Time:	Thu. 14:00-16:00
Place:	IfI 0.101

Announcements

Please contact me by email: tingting.yuan@cs.uni-goettingen.de if you have any questions. Choose your topic and email Tingting.

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 comprises the following components:

• Weekly Presentation + Weekly Paper Reading and Discussion 40%
• Final Presentation 25%
• Final Report 35%

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, two participants are assigned for presenting the paper (each presentation lasts for ~20 minutes) and the list of pros and cons are 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 lasts for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

List of Papers

• 1. Video streaming in NN-based system (Occupied)
  • (1) Neural Adaptive Content-aware Internet Video Delivery [1] OSDI'18
  • (2) Neural-Enhanced Live Streaming: Improving Live Video Ingest via Online Learning [2] Sigcomm'20
  • (3) NEMO: Enabling Neural-enhanced Video Streaming on Commodity Mobile Devices [3] Mobicom'20

• 2. Network for Distributed Learning (Occupied)
  • (1) Is Network the Bottleneck of Distributed Training? [4] Sigcomm workshop 20
  • (2) Domain-specific Communication Optimization for Distributed DNN Training [5] arxiv
  • (3) PipeDream: generalized pipeline parallelism for DNN training[6] SOSP ’19

• 3. Network Control
  • (1) Neural Packet Routing [7] Sigcomm workshop 20
  • (2) OmniMon: Re-architecting Network Telemetry with Resource Efficiency and Full Accuracy [8] Sigcomm 20
  • (3) Swift: Delay is Simple and Effective for Congestion Control in the Datacenter[9] Sigcomm 20

• 4. AI for Network I
  • (1) SmartEntry: Mitigating Routing Update Overhead with Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering [10] Sigcomm workshop 20
  • (2) Event-Triggered Communication Network with Limited-Bandwidth Constraint for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [11] AAAI 21
  • (3) Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters [12] Sigcomm 19

• 5. AI for Network II (Occupied)
  • (1) Challenges in Using ML for Networking Research: How to Label If You Must [13] Sigcomm workshop 20
  • (2) Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems [14]Sigcomm 20
  • (3) PCF: Provably Resilient Flexible Routing [15] Sigcomm 20

Schedule

• 15 April 2021
  • Informational Meeting

• 22 April 2021
  • No lecture (Girls Day)

• 29 April 2021
  • Paper Title: Neural Adaptive Content-aware Internet Video Delivery [16] OSDI'18

• 06 May 2021
  • Paper Title: Is Network the Bottleneck of Distributed Training? [17] Sigcomm workshop 20

• 13 May 2021
  • No lecture (Ascension Day)

• 20 May 2021
  • Paper Title: Challenges in Using ML for Networking Research: How to Label If You Must [18] Sigcomm workshop 20

• 27 May 2021
  • Paper Title: Neural-Enhanced Live Streaming: Improving Live Video Ingest via Online Learning [19] Sigcomm'20

• 03 June 2021
  • Paper Title: Domain-specific Communication Optimization for Distributed DNN Training [20] arxiv

• 10 June 2021
  • Paper Title: Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems [21]Sigcomm 20

• 17 June 2021
  • Paper Title: PipeDream: generalized pipeline parallelism for DNN training[22] SOSP ’19

• 24 June 2021
  • Paper Title: PCF: Provably Resilient Flexible Routing [23] Sigcomm 20

• 01 July 2021
  • Paper Title: NEMO: Enabling Neural-enhanced Video Streaming on Commodity Mobile Devices [24] Mobicom'20

• 08 July 2021
  • No lecture

• 15 July 2021 (Final Presentation)
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Final Presentations & Report

• Final Registration in FlexNow: before 09th July 2021.

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

• Final Presentation Slots:
  • To Be Announced (TBA)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (~6 pages, double 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 20 August 2021