Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2010/2011)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Yang Chen, Tianyin Xu
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

The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature from top tier journal/conference, like ToN, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, IMC, WWW, CoNEXT. The seminar topics include the following:

• Peer-to-Peer Networking (Infrastructure, Systems, Applications)
• Online Social Networking (Architecture, User Behavior, Data Collection, Data Analysis)

Schedule

• 05.11.2010 [Session 0]
  • File:Introduction ATCN WS1011.pdf
  • Course Introduction (how to read, write....)‏
  • Introduction of Peer-to-Peer Networking
• 12.11.2010 [Session 1]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Paper reading: GNP (landmark-based network coordinate system)
• 19.11.2010 [Session 2]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Paper reading: Vivaldi (decentralized network coordinate system)
• 26.11.2010 [Session 3]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Paper reading: IDES (matrix factorization model based network coordinate system)
• 03.12.2010 [Session 4]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Paper reading: Chord (scalable Peer-to-peer lookup service)
• 10.12.2010 [Session 5]: No class
  • Decisions on assigning papers for the final presentation!
• 17.12.2010 [Session 6]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
  • Paper reading: High Availability, Scalable Storage, Dynamic Peer Networks: Pick Two
  • Introduction of online social networking
• 07.01.2011 [Session 7]: Online Social Networking
  • Paper reading: Understanding Latent Interactions in Online Social Networks
• 14.01.2011 [Session 8]: Online Social Networking
  • Paper reading: Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
• 21.01.2011 [Session 9]: Online Social Networking
  • Paper reading
• 28.01.2011 [Final presentation]

Session Reading Assignments

• For Section 1: [2](Presenter: Lei Jiao)
  • Feedback: [3]
• For Section 2: [4] (Presenter: Cong Ding)
  • Additional Reading (optional): [5]
  • Feedback: [6][7]
• For Section 3: [8] (Presenter: Shining Wu)
  • Additional Reading (optional): [9][10]
  • Feedback: (TBA)
• For Section 4: [11]
• For Section 6: [12][13]
• For Section 7: [14] (Presenter: Dominic Simm)
• For Section 8: [15] (Presenter: Jiachen Chen)
• For Section 9:

Feedback lists some papers related to the discussion in the class, could act as references for reviewing the sessions

Reading Assignments for Final Presentation

• User Behavior in OSN
  • Alan Mislove, Massilmiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2007.
  • Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, and Krishna P. Gummadi. A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09), Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
  • Christo Wilson, Bryce Boe, Alessandra Sala, Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy and Ben Y. Zhao. User Interactions in Social Networks and their Implications. In Proc. of ACM EuroSys, 2009.
  • Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue Moon. What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?. In Proc. of WWW, 2010.
• Social Graph Analysis (Cong Ding)
  • J. Leskovec, Christos Faloutsos. Sampling from Large Graphs. In Proc. of ACM SIGKDD, 2006.
  • Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert Zablit, Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao. Measurement-calibrated Graph Models for Social Network Experiments. In Proc. of WWW, 2010.
  • Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou. Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs. In Proc. of IEEE Infocom, 2010.
  • Bruno Ribeiro and Don Towsley, Estimating and Sampling Graphs with Multidimensional Random Walks, ACM IMC, 2010.
• Security of Network Coordinate Systems
  • M.A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat. K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, and W. Dabbous. Securing Internet Coordinate Embedding Systems. In Proc of ACM SIGCOMM, 2007.
  • D. J. Zage, C. Nita-Rotaru. On the Accuracy of Decentralized Virtual Coordinate Systems in Adversarial Networks. In Proc. of ACM CCS, 2007
  • Guohui Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng. Distributed Algorithms for Stable and Secure Network Coordinates. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2008.
  • Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Boon Thau Loo. Veracity: Practical Secure Network Coordinates via Vote-based Agreements. In Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2009.
• Mobile Social Networking (Lei Jiao)
  • Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, and Eiko Yoneki. BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Justin Manweiler, Ryan Scudellari, Landon P. Cox. SMILE: encounter-based trust for mobile social services. In Proc. of ACM CCS, 2009.
  • Shravan Gaonkar, Jack Li, Romit Roy Choudhury, Landon Cox, Al Schmidt. Micro-Blog: sharing and querying content through mobile phones and social participation. In Proc. of ACM MobiSys, 2008.
• Security and Privacy of OSN (Jiachen Chen)
  • Randolph Baden, Adam Bender, Daniel Starin, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2009.
  • Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, and Ben Y. Zhao. StarClique: Guaranteeing User Privacy in Social Networks Against Intersection Attacks. In Proc. of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2009.
  • Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove. An Analysis of Social Network-Based Sybil Defenses. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2010.
  • Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen and Ben Y. Zhao. Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2010.
• P2P VoD System (Shining Wu)
  • W. P. K. Yiu, X, Jin, and S. H. G. Chan. VMesh: Distributed Segment Storage for Peer-to-Peer Interactive Video Streaming. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(9):1717-1731, Dec. 2007.
  • B. Cheng, H. Jin, X. Liao. Supporting VCR Functions in P2P VoD Services Using Ring-Assisted Overlays. In Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007.
  • D. Wang and J. Liu. A Dynamic Skip List-based Overlay for On-Demand Media Streaming with VCR Interactions. In IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 19(4):503-514, Apr. 2008.
  • Y. Huang, T. Z. J. Fu, D. M. Chiu, J. C. S. Liu, and C. Huang. Challenges, Design and Analysis of a Large-scale P2P-VoD System. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
• Gossip/Epidemic Dissemination
  • A. J. Ganesh, A. -M. Kermarrec, and L. Massoulie. Peer-to-Peer Membership Management for Gossip-Based Protocols. IEEE Transactions on Computer, 52(2):1-11, Feb. 2003.
  • P. T. Eugster, R. Guerrauoi, A. -M. Kermarrec, and L. Massoulie. From Epidemics to Distributed Computing. IEEE Computer, 37:60-67, 2004.
  • A. J. Demers, D. H. Greene, C. Hauser, W. Irish, and J. Larson, S. Shenker, H. Sturgis, D. Swinehart, and D. Terry. Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database Maintenance. In Proc. of ACM PODC1987.
  • D. Kempe, J. Kleinberg, and A. Demers. Spatial Gossip and Resource Location Protocols. In Proc. of 33rd ACM STOC 2001.

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 [16]
• 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)