Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (Summer 2013)
Details
| Workload/ECTS Credits: | 180h, 6 ECTS, 5 (ITIS) |
| Module: | M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II -or 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS) |
| Lecturer: | Xiaoming Fu |
| 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 mobile communication. Each week we will select several fancy papers from some top tier conferences/journals. Students are supposed to read the papers ahead of time and give your review of each paper. The aim of the course is to help the early stage MS/PhD students to develop the required skills of research as well as to get your hand wet on the cut-edge work on mobile communications.
- 12.04.2013 [Session 1]
- Papers to read and review
- 1-1 Fengyuan Xu et.al V-edge: Fast Self-constructive Power Modeling of Smartphones Based on Battery Voltage Dynamics. NSDI 2013
- Papers to read and review
Grading Policy
The grad consists of four parts
- Homework
- Attendance, participation, and enthusiasm
- Final presentation
- Final report
Final Presentation
- Paper list will be provided before 1st Jun
- Select a paper in the list before 8th Jun
- Deadline of submitting slides: 26th Jun
- Duration: 25-30 minute presentation + 10 minute discussion Tips for preparing slides
- 15-20 pages, BSc/MSc. thesis format
- Correct citation of others’ work (figure, sentence, argument, idea, ...)
- Get your audiences to quickly understand the idea of the paper
- Animations, figures and tables are better than wordy sentences
- Use example to explain complicated algorithms
- Short sentences
- Avoid complicated equations
- Summary of the paper: thinking/justification of the paper in your own words (Bonus)
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]