Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2012/2013)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations); M.Inf.1222 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	{{{lecturer}}}
Teaching assistant:	Yuan Zhang
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

16.11.2012 [Session 1]
- Mobile
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Feng Qian et.al Web Caching on Smartphones: Ideal vs. Reality. Mobisys 2012
    - 1-2 Zengbin Zhang et. al SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones. Mobisys 2012
23.11.2012 [Session 2]
- Mobile
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Xuan Bao et al Helping Mobile Apps Bootstrap with Fewer Users. UbiComp 2012
    - 1-2 Jue Wang et al Efﬁcient and Reliable Low-Power Backscatter Networks. Sigcomm 2012
30.11.2012 [Session 3]
- Mobile
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Zengbin Zhang et. al SwordFight: Enabling a New Class of Phone-to-Phone Action Games on Commodity Phones. Mobisys 2012
7.12.2012 [Session 3]
- Middleware
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Ali Ghodsit et. al Multi-Resource Fair Queueing for Packet Processing. Sigcomm 2012
    - 1-2 Ali Ghodsit et. al HyperDex: A Distributed, Searchable Key-Value Store. Sigcomm 2012
14.12.2012 [Session 4]
- Offload
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Mark S. Gordon et. al COMET: Code Offload by Migrating Execution Transparently. OSDI 2012
    - 1-2 Joel Sommers et. al Cell vs. WiFi: On the Performance of Metro Area Mobile Connections. IMC 2012
[Session 5]
- Big Data
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Edmund B. Nightingale et. al Flat Datacenter Storage. OSDI 2012
    - 1-2 Joseph E. Gonzalez et. al PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs. OSDI 2012
[Session 6]
- Privacy
  - Papers to read and review
    - 1-1 Franziska Roesner et. al Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web. NSDI 2012

IMPORTANT

- - - The deadline for registration on FlexNow is 18.1.2013. Anyone who wants to get credits for this course should be registered before that.

[Final Presentation Topic]

- OSN Evolution
  - - Neil Zhenqiang Gong et. al Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks:Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+. IMC 2012
    - Xiaohan Zhao et. al Multi-scale Dynamics in a Massive Online Social Network. IMC 2012

- Data Centers: Resources Management
  - - Peter Xiang Gao et. al It’s Not Easy Being Green. Sigcomm 2012
    - Lucian Popa et. al FairCloud: Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing. Sigcomm 2012

- Security
  - - Nigel Edwards et. al An historical examination of open source releases and their vulnerabilities. CCS 2012
    - Shakeel Butt et. al Self-service Cloud Computing. CCS 2012

- OSN Sampling
  - - Atish Das Sarma et.al Near-Optimal Random Walk Sampling in Distributed Networks. Infocom 2012
    - M Kurant et.al Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling. WOSN 2012

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 [Paper_Review_Form_ATCN_WS201112.doc]
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) Template:[2]