Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2010/2011)
Details
Workload/ECTS Credits: | 180h, 6 ECTS |
Module: | M.Inf.223: Seminar Telematik III |
Lecturer: | {{{lecturer}}} |
Teaching assistant: | Yang Chen, Tianyin Xu |
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
- 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
- 05.11.2010 [Session 0]
- Course Introduction (how to read, write....)
- Introduction of Peer-to-Peer Networking
- 12.11.2010 [Session 1]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Paper reading
- 19.11.2010 [Session 2]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Paper reading
- 26.11.2010 [Session 3]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Paper reading
- 03.12.2010 [Session 4]: Online Social Networking
- Paper reading
- Decisions on assigning papers for the final presentation!
- 10.12.2010 [Session 5]: No class
- 17.12.2010 [Session 6]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Paper reading
- Introduction of online social networking
- 07.01.2011 [Session 7]: Online Social Networking
- Paper reading
- 14.01.2011 [Session 8]: Online Social Networking
- Paper reading
- 21.01.2011 [Session 9]: Online Social Networking
- Paper reading
- 28.01.2011 [Final presentation]
Session Reading List
TBA
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 Thursday). => the review form is available at Stud.IP
- 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 paper and prepare:
- presentation (each for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes discussions)
- essay (12~15 pages)