Advanced Topics in AI for Networking (Summer 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:	Wednesday 14:00-16:00
Place:	IfI 0.101
UniVZ	[1]

Announcements

Please contact me by email:tingting.yuan@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 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 50%
• Final Presentation 25%
• Final Report 25%

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 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 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. Lightweight and Robust Representation of Economic Scales from Satellite Imagery [2] [L]

2. AutoML for Video Analytics with Edge Computing [3][A]

3. Source Compression with Bounded DNN Perception Loss for IoT Edge Computer Vision [4][A]

4. NN-Meter: Towards Accurate Latency Prediction of Deep-Learning Model Inference on Diverse Edge Devices [5] [B]

5. Reducto: On-Camera Filtering for Resource-Efficient Real-Time Video Analytics [6] [B]

6. Deep Interest Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction [7] [L]

7. Energy-Efficient 3D Vehicular Crowdsourcing For Disaster Response by Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning [8] [B]

8. Reducing the Service Function Chain Backup Cost over the Edge and Cloud by a Self-Adapting Scheme [9]

9. Routing on Multiple Optimality Criteria[10]

10. Understanding, Detecting and Localizing Partial Failures in Large System Software [11]

11. Understanding Lifecycle Management Complexity of Datacenter Topologies [12] [L]

12. ACC: Automatic ECN Tuning for High-Speed Datacenter Networks [13][A]

13. Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants’ Off-Nets [14]

14. ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning [15]

15. Segcache: a memory-efficient and scalable in-memory key-value cache for small objects[16]

16. MAGE: Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation [17]

Schedule

W1: Open Talk

W2: Assignment Topics and demo paper reading (Pollux: Co-adaptive Cluster Scheduling for Goodput-Optimized Deep Learning [18])

W3: Paper ID: 1

W4: Paper ID: 4

W5: Paper ID: 2

W6: Paper ID: 6

W7: Paper ID: 5

W8: Paper ID: 3

W9: Paper ID: read the paper for the final presentation

W10: Paper ID: prepare a slide for the final presentation

W11: Rehearsal

Final Presentation

• Paper Title: 11
• Paper Title: 7
• Paper Title:

Final Presentations & Report

• Final Registration in FlexNow: To Be Announced (TBA).

• 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