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. Xiaoming Fu; Dr. Yali Yuan
Teaching assistant: []
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 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 for ~30 minutes). And the list of pros and cons is discussed by all the participants.
  • In the middle of the semester, everyone is requested to pick a topic and prepare:
    • Final report: prepare an essay (8~9 pages, single column) for your chosen research topic, which contains a comprehensive literature survey + a detailed discussion of some key enabling technologies
    • Final presentation: each presentation for ~20 minutes, plus ~10 minutes Q&A

Presentation Schedule

TBD

Schedule

  • 18 October 2018
    • Informational Meeting











  • 22 December 2018 & 06 January 2019[Holiday]
    • No Lecture, Paper pre-reading by students



  • 11 January 2019~ 31 January 2019
    • Final presentation and report preparation

Final Presentations & Report

  • Final Registration in FlexNow: 15th January 2019.
  • Topics:
    • Wireless Content Caching
    • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or HTTP/2
    • Deep Learning Based Human Activity Recognition
    • Tracking and localization


  • Pre-Presentation (Rehearsal):
  • 17 January 2019 (All students are required to come this time except the special case. Otherwise, you can not attend the final presentation.)
      • All students are divided into three group. Group 1: Jonas Hügel, Cong Li and Yachao Shao. Group 2: Tasnia Ashrafi Heya, Shichang Ding and Yuhan Wang. Group 3: Gulzaib Amjad, Robert Tasik and Fangxi Deng. From 14:00pm to 14:30pm, students within the group will help each other to check presentations. After that, we will discuss together for all students. Please take your laptop or your print version PPT to this course.


  • Final Presentation:
    • Each for ~20 minutes, plus ~5 minutes Q&A (Please make sure that your presentation time is within 20 minutes)




  • Final Report:
    • Essay (5~6 pages, double columns, IEEE format)
    • Due by 23:59pm 28 Feb. 2019