CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2017

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3515

Organizer: Kobus Van der Merwe


Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/13 Kobus Van der Merwe
How to read a paper
2 1/20 Guru Annasamy X-FEDERATE: A Policy Engineering Framework for Federated Access Management
3 1/27 Anmol Vatsa VC3: Trustworthy Data Analytics in the Cloud Using SGX
4 2/3 Zirak Zaheer Paxos Made Switch-y
5 2/10 Hyun-wook Baek Lurking Malice in the Cloud: Understanding and Detecting Cloud Repository as a Malicious Service
6 2/17 Ren Quinn Early application identification
7 2/24 Grad visit - No Meeting
8 3/3 Binh Nguyen FlexRAN: A Flexible and Programmable Platform for Software-Defined Radio Access Networks
9 3/10 Kirk Webb QuickC: practical sub-millisecond transport for small cells
3/17 Spring Break - No meeting
10 3/31 Elliot Hatch Beyond Counting: New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space
11 4/7 David Hancock (Meet with CSL seminar in 3485 MEB) Evaluating the Power of Flexible Packet Processing for Network Resource Allocation
12 4/14 Anand Tripathi Disclosure: detecting botnet command and control servers through large-scale NetFlow analysis
13 4/21 Junguk Cho Understanding On-device Bufferbloat for Cellular Upload


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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