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.1223 (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 topics in wireless and mobile communication and 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: prepare an essay (12~15 pages) for your chosen research topic, which contains a comprehensive literature survey + a detailed discussion of some key enabling technologies
  • Final presentation: each presentation for ~30 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

Presentation Schedule

TBD

Schedule

• 17 April 2015
  • Informational Meeting

• 24 April 2015 & 1 May 2015 [Holiday]
  • No Lecture, Paper pre-reading by students

• 8 May 2015
  • Mobile Data Offloading & Device-to-Device Communication
    • Wenjie Hu and Guohong Cao, Quality-Aware Traffic Offloading in Wireless Networks, ACM Mobihoc 2014. (Presented by Argianto Rahartomo)
    • Kyunghan Lee, Joohyun Lee, Yung Yi, Injong Rhee, and Song Chong, Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?, IEEE/ACM TON 2013. (Presented by Fitria Nilamsari)
    • George Iosifidis, Lin Gao, Jianwei Huang, and Leandros Tassiulas, An Iterative Double Auction Mechanism for Mobile Data Offloading, IEEE Wiopt 2013. (Presented by Xi Wang)
    • Wei Gao, Qinghua Li, Bo Zhao and Guohong Cao, Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Social Network Perspective, ACM MOBIHOC 2009. (Presented by Olga Smirnova)

• 15 May 2015
  • Wireless Content Caching & Device-to-Device Communication
    • 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. (Presented by Giovanna Parra)
    • 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. (Presented by Argianto Rahartomo)
    • Konstantinos Poularakis, George Iosifidis, Antonios Argyriou, and Leandros Tassiulas, Video Delivery over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: Optimizing Cost and Performance, IEEE INFOCOM 2014. (Presented by Fitria Nilamsari)
    • 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. (Presented by Xi Wang)

• 22 May 2015
  • Wireless Data Center & Device-to-Device Communication
    • Ji-Yong Shin, Emin Gün Sirer, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Darko Kirovski, On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Datacenters, ANCS 2012. (Presented by Olga Smirnova)
    • 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. (Presented by Giovanna Parra)
    • 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. (Presented by Argianto Rahartomo)
    • Navid Abedini Swetha Sampath Rajarshi Bhattacharyya Suman Paul and Srinivas Shakkotta, Realtime Streaming with Guaranteed QoS over Wireless D2D Networks, ACM MOBIHOC 2013. (Presented by Fitria Nilamsari)

• 29 May 2015
  • 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. (Presented by Xi Wang)
    • 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. (Presented by Olga Smirnova)
    • Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura, Serendipity: Enabling Remote Computing among Intermittently Connected Mobile Devices, IEEE Mobihoc 2012. (Presented by Giovanna Parra)

• 30 May 2015 ~ 16 July 2015
  • Final presentation and report preparation

Final Presentations & Report

• Topics:
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Data Offloading
  • Wireless Data-Center Networking
  • Wireless Content Caching
  • Device-to-Device Communication

• Final Presentation:
  • Each for ~30 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A
  • 17 July 2015

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