Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2014/2015)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS (MSc 2014)
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations); M.Inf.1222 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Dr. Xu Chen
Teaching assistant:	Mr. Lingjun Pu
Time:	start:24 October 2014 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/mobile networking. This course is a 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 tier 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, three participants are assigned for presenting the papers (each presentation for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes discussions). And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participants.
• In the end of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic and prepare:
  • Final report: essay (12~15 pages) for a comprehensive literature survey of the chosen topic
  • Final presentation: each presentation for ~30 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

List of Participants

TBD

Schedule

• 24 October 2014
  • Informational Meeting

• 31 October & 7 November 2014
  • No lectures
  • Paper pre-reading by all participants

• 14 November 2014 [Session 1]
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
    • Cong Shi, Karim Habak, Pranesh Pandurangan, Mostafa Ammar, Mayur Naik, and Ellen Zegura, COSMOS: Computation Offloading as a Service for Mobile Devices, ACM Mobihoc 2014. (Presented by Eeran Maiti)
    • Marco V. Barbera, Sokol Kosta, Alessandro Mei, and Julinda Stefa, To Offload or Not to Offload? The Bandwidth and Energy Costs of Mobile Cloud Computing, IEEE INFOCOM 2013. (Presented by Pouya Saeedfar)
    • Li Chen, Yuan Feng, Baochun Li, and Bo Li, Ready, Set, Go: Coalesced Offloading from Mobile Devices to the Cloud, IEEE INFOCOM 2014. (Reviewed by Jie Li)

• 21 November 2014 [Session 2]
  • Mobile Data Offloading
    • Wenjie Hu and Guohong Cao, Quality-Aware Traffic Offloading in Wireless Networks, ACM Mobihoc 2014. (Presented by Pouya Saeedfar)
    • Kyunghan Lee, Joohyun Lee, Yung Yi, Injong Rhee, and Song Chong, Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?, IEEE/ACM TON 2013. (Presented by Jie Li)
    • George Iosifidis, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang, and Leandros Tassiulas, An Iterative Double Auction Mechanism for Mobile Data Offloading, IEEE Wiopt 2013. (Reviewed by Eeran Maiti)

• 28 November 2014 [Session 3]
  • Mobile Crowd-sensing
    • Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, and Jian Tang, Crowdsourcing to Smartphones: Incentive Mechanism Design for Mobile Phone Sensing, ACM Mobicom 2012. (Presented by Jie Li)
    • Ruipeng Gao, Mingmin Zhao, Tao Ye, Fan Ye, Yizhou Wang, Kaigui Bian, Tao Wang, Xiaoming Li, Jigsaw: Indoor Floor Plan Reconstruction via Mobile Crowdsensing, ACM Mobicom 2014. (Presented by Eeran Maiti)
    • Z. Feng, Y. Zhu, Q. Zhang, H. Zhu, J. Yu, J. Cao and L. Ni, Towards Truthful Mechanisms for Mobile Crowdsourcing with Dynamic Smartphones, IEEE ICDCS 2014. (Reviewed by Pouya Saeedfar)

• 5 December 2014 [Session 4]
  • Mobile Social Networking
    • Wei Gao, Qinghua Li, Bo Zhao, and Guohong Cao, Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Social Network Perspective, ACM Mobihoc 2009. (Presented by Eeran Maiti)
    • Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, and Eiko Yoneki, BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks, IEEE TMC 2011. (Presented by Pouya Saeedfar)
    • Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang, Hypercube-Based Multipath Social Feature Routing in Human Contact Networks, IEEE TOC 2014. (Reviewed by Jie Li)

• 12 December 2014 [Session 5]
  • Datacenter Networking
    • Yibo Zhu, Xia Zhou, Zengbin Zhang, Lin Zhou, Amin Vahdat, Ben Y. Zhao, and Haitao Zheng, Cutting the Cord: A Robust Wireless Facilities Network for Data Centers, ACM MOBICOM 2014. (Presented by Pouya Saeedfar)
    • Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, and Xiaoming Fu, Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP 2012. (Presented by Jie Li)
    • Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types, NDSI 2011. (Reviewed by Eeran Maiti)

• 19 December 2014 [Session 6]
  • Social Network Analytics
    • Catherine A. Bliss, Isabel M. Kloumann, Kameron Decker Harris, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Twitter Reciprocal Reply Networks Exhibit Assortativity with Respect to Happiness, Journal of Computational Science, 2012.(Presented by Jie Li)
    • R. West, H. S. Paskov, J. Leskovec, and C. Potts, Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis, TACL 2014. (Presented by Eeran Maiti)
    • J. Cheng, L. Adamic, A. Dow, J. Kleinberg, and J. Leskovec, Can Cascades Be Predicted? WWW 2014. (Reviewed by Pouya Saeedfar)

Final Presentations & Report

• Topics:
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Data Offloading
  • Mobile Crowd-sensing
  • Mobile Social Networking
  • Datacenter Networking
  • Social Network Analytics

• Final Presentation:
  • Each for ~30 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A
  • 27 February 2015 (Might Change)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (12~15 pages) for a comprehensive literature survey of the chosen topic (Template:[2])
  • Due by 28 February 2015