Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2012/2013)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations); M.Inf.1222 (new Regulations)
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 computer networking. This course is a research seminar (6 ECTS, 2 SWS), held on a weekly base and comprising the following components:

• Weekly paper reading and discussion + Weekly Presentation
• Final Presentation
• Final report

• 16.11.2012 [Session 1]
  • Mobile
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Feng Qian et.al Web Caching on Smartphones: Ideal vs. Reality. Mobisys 2012
      • 1-2 Zengbin Zhang et. al SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones. Mobisys 2012
• 23.11.2012 [Session 2]
  • Mobile
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Xuan Bao et al Helping Mobile Apps Bootstrap with Fewer Users. UbiComp 2012
      • 1-2 Jue Wang et al Efficient and Reliable Low-Power Backscatter Networks. Sigcomm 2012
• 30.11.2012 [Session 3]
  • Mobile
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Zengbin Zhang et. al SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones. Mobisys 2012
• 7.12.2012 [Session 3]
  • Middleware
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Ali Ghodsit et. al Multi-Resource Fair Queueing for Packet Processing. Sigcomm 2012
      • 1-2 Ali Ghodsit et. al HyperDex: A Distributed, Searchable Key-Value Store. Sigcomm 2012
• 14.12.2012 [Session 4]
  • Offload
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Mark S. Gordon et. al COMET: Code Offload by Migrating Execution Transparently. OSDI 2012
      • 1-2 Joel Sommers et. al Cell vs. WiFi: On the Performance of Metro Area Mobile Connections. IMC 2012
• [Session 5]
  • Big Data
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Edmund B. Nightingale et. al Flat Datacenter Storage. OSDI 2012
      • 1-2 Joseph E. Gonzalez et. al PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs. OSDI 2012
• [Session 6]
  • Privacy
    • Papers to read and review
      • 1-1 Franziska Roesner et. al Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web. NSDI 2012

• [Session 7] (25.1.2013)
  • Review of open papers
    • Papers to read and review
      • Xiaoming will send through private emails

IMPORTANT

• • • • The deadline for registration on FlexNow is 18.1.2013. Anyone who wants to get credits for this course should be registered before that.

• [Final Presentation Topic]

• • OSN Evolution (Subhash on 1.2.2013)
    • • Neil Zhenqiang Gong et. al Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks:Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+. IMC 2012
      • Xiaohan Zhao et. al Multi-scale Dynamics in a Massive Online Social Network. IMC 2012

• • Data Centers: Resources Management (Sebastian on 1.2.2013)
    • • Peter Xiang Gao et. al It’s Not Easy Being Green. Sigcomm 2012
      • Lucian Popa et. al FairCloud: Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing. Sigcomm 2012

• • Security (Thach on 8.2.2013)
    • • Nigel Edwards et. al An historical examination of open source releases and their vulnerabilities. CCS 2012
      • Shakeel Butt et. al Self-service Cloud Computing. CCS 2012

• • OSN Sampling (Hong on 8.2.2013)
    • • Atish Das Sarma et.al Near-Optimal Random Walk Sampling in Distributed Networks. Infocom 2012
      • M Kurant et.al Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling. WOSN 2012

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]