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.

Schedule

• 20.4.2012 [Session 0]
  • Course Introduction (how to read, write....)‏
    • General reading
      • 0-1. Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones, Mobisys 2010
• 27.4.2012 [Session 1]
  • Smartphones
    • • 0-1. Anatomizing Application Performance Differences on Smartphones, Mobisys 2010
• 4.5.2012 [Session 2]
  • Mobile cloud
    • • 0-1. Odessa: Enabling Interactive Perception Applications on Mobile Devices, Mobisys 2011
      • 0-2. Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User ContextFast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context, Mobisys 2012

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]