Practical Course Advanced Networking (Winter 2010/2011)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.805.6C: Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum Computernetzwerke
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Yang Chen
Time:	please see #Schedule
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course description

We offer a couple of practical topics related to advanced computer networking.

Prerequisites

This course requires fair overall knowledge of computer networking. It is recommended to have attended the following courses prior to taking this one:

• Telematik

Organization and Examination

Informational meeting

At the beginning of a semester there will be an organizational meeting. Please see the schedule of the corresponding semester for the exact date. At the organizational meeting we will give an introduction to the lab course including a tour of the actual lab and form the lab teams.

Lab teams

The students will conduct the practical course in small teams. A team consist of 2 students. Teams will be formed at the informational meeting at the beginning of the course.

Passing requirements

• Prepare a written report on the selected topic (12-15 pages). (50%)
• Present the selected topic and demonstrate your results in the seminar (30 min. presentation + 10 min. discussion). (50%)

Schedule

Friday, 5 November 2010, 16.15 - 17.15: First general meeting. Introduction to the course and open questions.

Topics

The following list of topics is constantly being expanded. If there is no topic that you like at the moment, please check back regularly for the most recent updates. You can also get in touch with us directly and we will try to find a topic that interests you.

Topic	Topic advisor	Initial readings	Description
Mobile social application platform development(1)	Konglin Zhu	[2] [3] [4]
Mobile social application platform development(2)	Konglin Zhu	[5]
Construct Your Own Large-Scale Distributed Applications	Tianyin Xu	[6] [7] [8]
Writing Your Own Internet Application Simulator	Tianyin Xu	[9]
Development and Data Collection using Facebook API	Yang Chen	[10]	[Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010. In this course, you can build your own facebook application using the facebook API. Although the detailed topic is quite open (we can brainstorm about that), but there are the following three basic milestones: (1)Build an application on facebook, like a online game, quiz, etc. As interesting as possible. (2)Attract more than 40 people to use it. (3) Collected the data (such as user behavior, corrsponding social graph, etc), and do the analysis. ]