Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2011/2012)
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Workload/ECTS Credits: | 180h, 6 ECTS |
Module: | M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III -or- M.Inf.224: Seminar Computernetzewerke II |
Lecturer: | {{{lecturer}}} |
Teaching assistant: | Jiachen Chen |
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
The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature from top tier journal/conference, like ToN, TPDS, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, IMC, WWW, CoNEXT. The seminar topics include the following:
- Peer-to-Peer Networking (Infrastructure, Systems, Applications)
- Online Social Networking (Architecture, User Behavior, Data Collection, Data Analysis)
Schedule
- 28.10.2011 [Session 0]
- Introduction_ATCN_WS1112.pdf
- Course Introduction (how to read, write....)
- Social Networks basis
- Two papers of general reading
- 0-1. What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?, WWW 2010
- 0-2. Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands, Middleware 2011
- Two papers of general reading
- 11.11.2011 [Session 1]
- Social network structure
- 18.11.2011 [Session 2]
- Strong and weak ties
- 02.12.2011 [Session 3]
- OSN sampling
- 09.12.2011 [Session 4]
- Recommendation systems
- 06.01.2012 [Session 5]
- Virtualization
- 13.01.2012 [Session 6]
- Data center network
- 20.01.2012 [Session 7]
- Energy issues in cloud computing
- 27.01.2012 [Session 8]
- Mobile cloud computing
- 03.02.2012 [Final presentation I]
- Each presentation is limited to up to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes Q/A and discussion
- Please send your slides to Jiachen
- 10.02.2012 [Final presentation II]
- 31.03.2012 [Final report deadline]
Session Reading Assignments
Feedback lists some papers related to the discussion in the class, could act as references for reviewing the sessions
Reading Assignments for Final Presentation
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]