Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2014/2015)

Details

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:	Mr. Lingjun Pu
Time:	start:24 October 2014 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 (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

List of Participants

TBD

Schedule

• 24 October 2014
  • Informational Meeting

• 31 October & 7 November 2014
  • No lectures
  • Paper pre-reading by all participants

• 14 November 2014 [Session 1]
  • 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.
    • Li Chen, Yuan Feng, Baochun Li, and Bo Li, Ready, Set, Go: Coalesced Offloading from Mobile Devices to the Cloud, IEEE INFOCOM 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.

• 21 November 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.

• 28 November 2014 [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.

• 5 December 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.

• 12 December 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.

• 19 December 2014 [Session 6]
  • Social Network Analytics
    • Catherine A. Bliss, Isabel M. Kloumann, Kameron Decker Harris, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Twitter Reciprocal Reply Networks Exhibit Assortativity with Respect to Happiness, Journal of Computational Science, 2012.
    • R. West, H. S. Paskov, J. Leskovec, and C. Potts, Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis, TACL 2014.
    • J. Cheng, L. Adamic, A. Dow, J. Kleinberg, and J. Leskovec, Can Cascades Be Predicted? WWW 2014.

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
  • 27 February 2015 (Might Change)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (12~15 pages) for a comprehensive literature survey of the chosen topic (Template:[2])
  • Due by 28 February 2015