CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2016

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3105

Organizers: Kobus Van der Merwe and Sneha Kasera


Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/15 Kobus Van der Merwe and Sneha Kasera
How to read a paper
2 1/22 Josh Kunz TxMiner: Identifying transmitters in real-world spectrum measurements
3 1/29 Christopher Becker RFDump: an architecture for monitoring the wireless ether
4 2/5 Binh Nguyen piStream: Physical Layer Informed Adaptive Video Streaming over LTE
5 2/12 David Johnson Participatory networking: an API for application control of SDNs
6 2/19 No meeting - please attend SoC poster session
7 2/26 Aashish Ghimire TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control
8 3/4 Jon Duerig An internet census taken by an illegal botnet: a qualitative assessment of published measurements
9 3/11 Dan Rolfe The Parrot Is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications
10 3/18 Spring Break - No meeting
11 3/25 Kirk Webb Beyond the Radio: Illuminating the Higher Layers of Mobile Networks
12 4/1 Praveen Thiraviyarathinam Socially Aware Networking: A Survey
13 4/8 Hyun-wook Baek Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures
14 4/15 Gurupragaash Annasamymani Kinetic: Verifiable Dynamic Network Control
15 4/22 David Hancock Scenario-based Programming for SDN Policies


About the Class

The Networking Seminar (CS 7943) is offered with two primary goals.

First, to increase participants' familiarity with recent and important results in the area of networking research. Attendees will read and discuss papers from recent and imminent top-tier networking conferences: e.g., NSDI, SIGCOMM, NDSS, MobiCom, MobiSys etc. Attendees will typically discuss one paper each week.

Second, to be a venue for student presentations. Students will take turns to lead the discussion of the research paper chosen for the meeting.


Assignments and Grading

For each class meeting (except the first week), each student should submit a summary of the paper to be discussed. (I.e., no summary is required for the "How to read a paper" paper.) Paper summaries are due before the start of the next meeting. Summaries are to be submitted via the course Canvas page. Paper summaries will constitute 80% of the final grade.

Students will also receive a grade for taking their turn to lead the discussion during the meeting. This grade will constitute 20% of the final grade.


Course communication

Course communication will be done via Canvas.


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