Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (Summer 2010)

Overview

Workload/ECTS Credits:	6 ECTS
Teaching assistant:	{{{ta}}}
Time:	Fri 10:00-12:00
Place:	IfI 3.101

Details

Instructor: Prof. Xiaoming Fu. Contact fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de if you have any questions.

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

• Presentation

• Final report

The seminar topics include the following:

• Social Network Analysis Techniques

• Mobile Social Overlay/Middleware

• Delay Tolerant and Opportunistic Networks (DTN)

• Internet of Things

• Security and Privacy

Further details are given in the introduction slides.

The paper review form is available [here]. Jon Crowcroft's tutorial slides here.

2 Papers to read on 23.04.2010 (please send me your review forms before/by 21.04.2010, 23:59!)

1. Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks

2. The Structure of Information Pathways in a Social Communication Network

Further reading:

• Introduction to Social Network Methods

• The Small World of the University: A Classroom Exercise in the Study of Networks