Advanced Topics in Computer Networking (Winter 2010/2011)

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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 + Weekly Presentation
  • Final 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]
  • 12.11.2010 [Session 1]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Paper reading: GNP (landmark-based network coordinate system)
  • 19.11.2010 [Session 2]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Paper reading: Vivaldi (decentralized network coordinate system)
  • 26.11.2010 [Session 3]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Paper reading: IDES (matrix factorization model based network coordinate system)
  • 03.12.2010 [Session 4]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Paper reading: Chord (scalable Peer-to-peer lookup service)
  • 10.12.2010 [Session 5]: No class
    • Decisions on assigning papers for the final presentation!
  • 17.12.2010 [Session 6]: Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Paper reading: High Availability, Scalable Storage, Dynamic Peer Networks: Pick Two
    • Introduction of online social networking
  • 07.01.2011 [Session 7]: Online Social Networking
    • Paper reading: Understanding Latent Interactions in Online Social Networks
  • 14.01.2011 [Session 8]: Online Social Networking
    • Paper reading: Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
  • 21.01.2011 [Session 9]: Online Social Networking
    • Paper reading
  • 11.02.2011 [Final presentation]
    • Time: 9:00AM-12:00AM
    • Each presentation is limited to up to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes Q/A and discussion

Session Reading Assignments

  • For Section 1: [2](Presenter: Lei Jiao)
  • For Section 2: [4] (Presenter: Cong Ding)
    • Additional Reading (optional): [5]
    • Feedback: [6][7]
  • For Section 3: [8] (Presenter: Shining Wu)
    • Additional Reading (optional): [9][10]
    • Feedback: (TBA)
  • For Section 4: [11]
  • For Section 6: [12][13]
  • For Section 7: [14] (Presenter: Dominic Simm)
  • For Section 8: [15] (Presenter: Jiachen Chen)
  • For Section 9: [16] (Presenter: Malte Hübner)

Feedback lists some papers related to the discussion in the class, could act as references for reviewing the sessions

Reading Assignments for Final Presentation

  • User Behavior in OSN
    • Alan Mislove, Massilmiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2007.
    • Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, and Krishna P. Gummadi. A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09), Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
    • Christo Wilson, Bryce Boe, Alessandra Sala, Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy and Ben Y. Zhao. User Interactions in Social Networks and their Implications. In Proc. of ACM EuroSys, 2009.
    • Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue Moon. What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?. In Proc. of WWW, 2010.
  • Social Graph Analysis (Cong Ding)
    • J. Leskovec, Christos Faloutsos. Sampling from Large Graphs. In Proc. of ACM SIGKDD, 2006.
    • Alessandra Sala, Lili Cao, Christo Wilson, Robert Zablit, Haitao Zheng and Ben Y. Zhao. Measurement-calibrated Graph Models for Social Network Experiments. In Proc. of WWW, 2010.
    • Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou. Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs. In Proc. of IEEE Infocom, 2010.
    • Bruno Ribeiro and Don Towsley, Estimating and Sampling Graphs with Multidimensional Random Walks, ACM IMC, 2010.
  • Security of Network Coordinate Systems
    • M.A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, C. Barakat. K. Salamatian, T. Turletti, and W. Dabbous. Securing Internet Coordinate Embedding Systems. In Proc of ACM SIGCOMM, 2007.
    • D. J. Zage, C. Nita-Rotaru. On the Accuracy of Decentralized Virtual Coordinate Systems in Adversarial Networks. In Proc. of ACM CCS, 2007
    • Guohui Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng. Distributed Algorithms for Stable and Secure Network Coordinates. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2008.
    • Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Boon Thau Loo. Veracity: Practical Secure Network Coordinates via Vote-based Agreements. In Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2009.
  • Mobile Social Networking (Lei Jiao)
    • Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, and Eiko Yoneki. BUBBLE Rap: Social-based Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
    • Justin Manweiler, Ryan Scudellari, Landon P. Cox. SMILE: encounter-based trust for mobile social services. In Proc. of ACM CCS, 2009.
    • Shravan Gaonkar, Jack Li, Romit Roy Choudhury, Landon Cox, Al Schmidt. Micro-Blog: sharing and querying content through mobile phones and social participation. In Proc. of ACM MobiSys, 2008.
  • Security and Privacy of OSN (Jiachen Chen)
    • Randolph Baden, Adam Bender, Daniel Starin, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee. Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2009.
    • Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Alessandra Sala, and Ben Y. Zhao. StarClique: Guaranteeing User Privacy in Social Networks Against Intersection Attacks. In Proc. of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2009.
    • Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, Alan Mislove. An Analysis of Social Network-Based Sybil Defenses. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2010.
    • Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen and Ben Y. Zhao. Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2010.
  • P2P VoD System (Shining Wu)
    • W. P. K. Yiu, X, Jin, and S. H. G. Chan. VMesh: Distributed Segment Storage for Peer-to-Peer Interactive Video Streaming. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(9):1717-1731, Dec. 2007.
    • B. Cheng, H. Jin, X. Liao. Supporting VCR Functions in P2P VoD Services Using Ring-Assisted Overlays. In Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007.
    • D. Wang and J. Liu. A Dynamic Skip List-based Overlay for On-Demand Media Streaming with VCR Interactions. In IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 19(4):503-514, Apr. 2008.
    • Y. Huang, T. Z. J. Fu, D. M. Chiu, J. C. S. Liu, and C. Huang. Challenges, Design and Analysis of a Large-scale P2P-VoD System. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
  • Gossip/Epidemic Dissemination
    • A. J. Ganesh, A. -M. Kermarrec, and L. Massoulie. Peer-to-Peer Membership Management for Gossip-Based Protocols. IEEE Transactions on Computer, 52(2):1-11, Feb. 2003.
    • P. T. Eugster, R. Guerrauoi, A. -M. Kermarrec, and L. Massoulie. From Epidemics to Distributed Computing. IEEE Computer, 37:60-67, 2004.
    • A. J. Demers, D. H. Greene, C. Hauser, W. Irish, and J. Larson, S. Shenker, H. Sturgis, D. Swinehart, and D. Terry. Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database Maintenance. In Proc. of ACM PODC1987.
    • D. Kempe, J. Kleinberg, and A. Demers. Spatial Gossip and Resource Location Protocols. In Proc. of 33rd ACM STOC 2001.

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 [17]
  • 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)