Advanced topics in mobile and social computing (AToMSC) (Summer 2021)

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS
Module:	M.Inf.1222.Mp: Specialization Computer Networks Module Description -or- 3.10: Advanced Topics in Internet Research (II)(ITIS); M.Inf.1223 (new Regulations)
Lecturer:	Prof. Xiaoming Fu; Dr. Tingting Yuan
Teaching assistant:	[NA]
Time:	Thu. 14:00-16:00
Place:	IfI 0.101
UniVZ	[1]

Announcements

Due to the recent recommendations in the context of Covid-19, this course is scheduled to be held online. We plan to use some tools and platforms, e.g., zoom or DFNconf. Please register into studIP in advance. The registration deadline is at 23:59 pm on 11th April 2021. I will announce which tool will be used before our lectures start. Please contact me by email:adhatarao@cs.uni-goettingen.de if you have any questions.

Course Overview

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss some advanced topics in computer networks. This course is a theory-oriented research seminar (5 ECTS, 2 SWS), held on a weekly base and comprises 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 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, one participant is assigned for presenting the paper (each presentation lasts for ~30 minutes) and the list of pros and cons are discussed by all the participants.
• In the middle of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic and prepare:
  • Final report: Essay (5~6 pages, double columns, IEEE format) for your chosen research topic, which contains a comprehensive literature survey + a detailed discussion of some key enabling technologies
  • Final presentation: each presentation lasts for ~20 minutes, plus ~5 minutes Q&A

List of Papers

• 1. Network for Distributed Learning
  • (1) Domain-specific Communication Optimization for Distributed DNN Training [2]
  • (2) PipeDream: generalized pipeline parallelism for DNN training[3]
  • (3) Is Network the Bottleneck of Distributed Training? [4]

• 2. Network for Reinforcement Learning
  • (1) Event-Triggered Communication Network with Limited-Bandwidth Constraint for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [5]
  • (2)

• 3. AI for Network
  • (1) Neural Packet Routing [6]
  • (2) SmartEntry: Mitigating Routing Update Overhead with Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Engineering [7]

• 4. Digital twin for network
  • (1) A Graph Neural Network-based Digital Twin for Network Slicing Management [8]
  • (2)

Schedule

• 15 April 2021
  • Informational Meeting

• 22 April 2021
  • No Lecture

• 29 April 2021
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• 06 May 2021
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• 13 May 2021
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• 20 May 2021
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• 27 May 2021
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• 03 June 2021 (Final topics release)
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• 10 June 2021
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• 17 June 2021
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• 24 June 2021
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• 01 July 2021 (Final slides submission)
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Final Presentations & Report

• Final Registration in FlexNow: July 1st 2021.

• Final Presentation:
  • Each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

• Final Presentation Slots:
  • To Be Announced (TBA)

• Final Report:
  • Essay (~6 pages, double column, IEEE format: https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-journal-article/authoring-tools-and-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/)
  • Due by 23:59pm 20 August 2021