Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (AToMIC)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II (old Regulations) -or- 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS); M.Inf.1222 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Dr. Xu Chen
Teaching assistant:	Mr. Lingjun Pu
Time:	Fri 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/mobile networking. This course is a theory-oriented research seminar (5 ECTS, 2 SWS), 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

Presentation Schedule

TBD

Schedule

• 17 April 2015
  • Informational Meeting

• 24 April 2015 [No Lecture]
  • Paper pre-reading by students

• 1 May 2015 [No Lecture]
  • Holiday

• 8 May 2015 [Session 1]
  • 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.

• 15 May 2015 [Session 2]
  • 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.

• 22 May 2015 [Session 3]
  • 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.

• 29 May 2015 [Session 4]
  • 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.

• 05 June 2015 [Session 5]
  • 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.
    • Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura, Serendipity: Enabling Remote Computing among Intermittently Connected Mobile Devices, IEEE Mobihoc 2012.

• 06 June 2015 ~ 06 June 2015

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
  • 10 July 2015

• Final Report:
  • Essay (12~15 pages) for a comprehensive literature survey of the chosen topic (Template:[2])
  • Due by 1 September 2015