Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2015/2016)

Details

Prerequisite knowledge for this course：Mobile Communication and Networking, Optimization Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Applied Probability.

Students (with the satisfied prerequisite knowledge) that would like to to register the course should send an email to Dr. Xu Chen by 31 Oct. 2015..

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)
Lecturer:	Dr. Xu Chen
Teaching assistant:	[--]
Time:	Friday 10:15-11:45
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Course Overview

The purpose of this course is to discuss some advanced topics in wireless and mobile communication and networking. This course is an intensive theory-oriented and modeling-driven research seminar, and the students are expected to possess the prerequisite knowledge of Mobile Communication and Networking, Optimization Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Applied Probability. This course is 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 course is mainly drawn from the research literature in top tier journals/conferences, like ToN,TMC, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, INFOCOM, MOBICOM, MOBIHOC, WWW, CoNEXT.

The examination and grading is mostly based on the extent to which a student understands the problem formulation, model building, and mathematical/technical solution in a paper/presentation.

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]
  • Device-to-Device Communication
    • Navid Abedini Swetha Sampath Rajarshi Bhattacharyya Suman Paul and Srinivas Shakkotta, Realtime Streaming with Guaranteed QoS over Wireless D2D Networks, ACM MOBIHOC 2013.
    • 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.
    • Yang Cao, Xu Chen, Tao Jiang, and Junshan Zhang, SoCast: Social Ties Based Cooperative Video Multicast, 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.
    • Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, and Eiko Yoneki, BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks, IEEE TMC 2011.
    • Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang, Hypercube-Based Multipath Social Feature Routing in Human Contact Networks, IEEE TOC 2014.

• [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.
    • Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, and Xiaoming Fu, Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP 2012.
    • Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Dominant Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types, NDSI 2011.

• [Session 6]
  • Wireless Content Caching
    • 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.

• [Session 7]
  • Wireless Data Center
    • 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.

• [Session 8]
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
    • Li Chen, Yuan Feng, Baochun Li, and Bo Li, Ready, Set, Go: Coalesced Offloading from Mobile Devices to the Cloud, IEEE INFOCOM 2014.
    • 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.

Final Presentations & Report

• 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