Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2015/2016)

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)
Teaching assistant:
Time:	Friday 10:15-11:45
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced topics in wireless and mobile communication and networking. This course is a theory-oriented research seminar, 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

Schedule and Topics

• [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.
    • 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.
    • Li Chen, Yuan Feng, Baochun Li, and Bo Li, Ready, Set, Go: Coalesced Offloading from Mobile Devices to the Cloud, IEEE INFOCOM 2014.

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

• [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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

• [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 Pranay Tare)
    • Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, and Eiko Yoneki, BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks, IEEE TMC 2011. (Presented by Jie Li,Reviewed by Pouya Saeedfar)
    • Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang, Hypercube-Based Multipath Social Feature Routing in Human Contact Networks, IEEE TOC 2014. (Presented by Gurjinder Singh, Reviewed by Eeran Maiti)

• [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 Eeran Maiti, Reviewed by Gurjinder Singh)
    • Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, and Xiaoming Fu, Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP 2012. (Presented by Pouya Saeedfar, Reviewed by Pranay Tare)
    • 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 Jie Li)

• [Session 6]
  • Wireless Content Caching & Device-to-Device Communication
    • Negin Golrezaei, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Andreas F. Molisch, and Giuseppe Caire, FemtoCaching: Wireless video content delivery through distributed caching helpers, IEEE INFOCOM 2012.
    • LXiaofei Wang, Min Chen, Tarik Taleb, Adlen Ksentini, and Victor C. M. Leung, Cache in the Air: Exploiting Content Caching and Delivery Techniques for 5G Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine 2014.
    • Konstantinos Poularakis, George Iosifidis, Antonios Argyriou, and Leandros Tassiulas, Video Delivery over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Optimizing Cost and Performance, IEEE INFOCOM 2014.
    • Xinzhou Wu, Saurabha Tavildar, Sanjay Shakkottai, Tom Richardson, Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Aleksandar Jovicic, FlashLinQ: A Synchronous Distributed Scheduler for Peer-to-Peer Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions Networking 2013.

• [Session 7]
  • Wireless Data Center & Device-to-Device Communication
    • Ji-Yong Shin, Emin Gün Sirer, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Darko Kirovski, On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Datacenters, ANCS 2012.
    • Xia Zhou, Zengbin Zhang, Yibo Zhu, Yubo Li, Saipriya Kumar, Amin Vahdat, Ben Y. Zhao and Haitao Zheng, Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers, ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
    • Navid Hamedazimi, Zafar Qazi, Himanshu Gupta, Vyas Sekar, Samir R. Das, Jon P. Longtin, Himanshu Shah, and Ashish Tanwer, FireFly: A Reconfigurable Wireless Data Center Fabric Using Free-Space Optics, IEEE ICDCS 2014.
    • Navid Abedini Swetha Sampath Rajarshi Bhattacharyya Suman Paul and Srinivas Shakkotta, Realtime Streaming with Guaranteed QoS over Wireless D2D Networks, ACM MOBIHOC 2013.

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
  • 19 February 2016

• Final Report:
  • Essay (12~15 pages) for a comprehensive literature survey of the chosen topic (Template:[2])
  • Due by 26 February 2016