Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications (AToMIC) 2018

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:	Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu
Teaching assistant:	[Dr. Yali Yuan]
Time:	Thu. 14:00-16:00
Place:	IfI 0.101
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, four 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

• 18 October 2018
  • Informational Meeting

• 25 October 2018
  • Mobile Data Offloading & Device-to-Device Communication
    • Zhiyuan Lin, Tim Althoff and Jure Leskovec, I’ll Be Back: On the Multiple Lives of Users of a Mobile Activity Tracking Application, ACM WWW 2018. (Presented by )
    • Dongyao Chen, Kang G. Shin, Yurong Jiang and Kyu-Han Kim, Locating and Tracking BLE Beacons with Smartphones, ACM CoNEXT 2018. (Presented by )
    • Kongyang Chen and Guang Tan, BikeNet: Accurate Localization of Shared Bikes in Street Canyons via Low-Level GPS Cooperation , ACM MobiSys 2018. (Presented by )
    • Yunting Zhang, Jiliang Wang, Weiyi Wang, Zhao Wang and Yunhao Liu, Vernier: Accurate and Fast Acoustic Motion Tracking Using Mobile Devices, IEEE Infocom 2018. (Presented by )

• 1 November 2018 [Holiday]
  • No Lecture, Paper pre-reading by students

• 8 November 2018

TBD

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
  • TBD
  • Presentation Slots:

TBD

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