Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (Summer 2012)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
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.

Selected Topics

We are primarily going to cover the following topics in our seminar:

• Smart phones, mobile cloud computing
• Energy issues with mobile computing
• Use cases, applications (location tracking, wireless network planning, crowd-sourcing)
• DTN, opportunity networking and mobile social networks

Grading Policy

The grad consists of four parts

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

Schedule

• 20.4.2012 [Session 0]
  • Course Introduction (how to read, write....)‏
    • General reading
      • 0-1. Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones, Mobisys 2010
• 27.4.2012 [Session 1]
  • Smartphones
    • • 0-1. Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones, Mobisys 2010
• 4.5.2012 [Session 2]
  • Mobile cloud
    • • 0-1. Odessa: Enabling Interactive Perception Applications on Mobile Devices, Mobisys 2011
      • 0-2. Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User ContextFast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context, Mobisys 2012
• 11.5.2012 [Session 3]
  • Smartphones, mobile cloud
    • • 0-1. Identifying Diverse Usage Behaviors of Smartphone Apps, IMC 2011
      • 0-2. AmbiStream: A Middleware for Multimedia Streaming on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices, Middleware 2011
• 18.5.2012 [Session 4]
  • Energy issue
    • • 0-1. E-MiLi: energy-Minimizing Idle Listening in Wireless Networks, MobiHoc 2011
      • 0-2. Utility Optimal Scheduling in Energy Harvesting Networks, Mobicom 2011
• 25.5.2012 [Session 5]
  • Applications
    • • 0-1. WalkSafe: A Pedestrian Safety App for Mobile Phone Users Who Walk and Talk While Crossing Roads, HotMobile 2012
      • 0-2. EyeGuardian: A Framework of Eye Tracking and Blink Detection for Mobile Device Users, Mobisys 2012

Please also send the review to yuan.zhang@informatik.uni-goettingen.de

• 8.6.2012 [Session 6]
  • Applications II
    • • 0-1. Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do: Identifying Influential Mobile Users Through Random Walks, MobiHoc 2012
      • 0-2. SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones, Mobisys 2012
• 15.6.2012 [Session 7]
  • Positioning
    • • 0-1. Satellites in Our Pockets: An Object Positioning System using Smartphones, Mobisys 2012
• 29.6.2012 [Session 8]
  • Final Presentation
    • • 0-1. Periodic Transfers in Mobile Applications: Network-wide Origin, Impact, and Optimization, WWW 2012
      • 0-2. Android Permissions Demystified, CCS 2011, taken by Arne Bochem
      • 0-3. ExerLink: Enabling Pervasive Social Exergames with Heterogeneous Exercise Devices, Mobisys 2012
      • 0-4. Human Wayfinding in Information Networks, WWW 2012, taken by Narisu Tao

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]