CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2018

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3515

Organizer: Kobus Van der Merwe


Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/12 Kobus Van der Merwe
How to read a paper
2 1/19 Simon Redman The Segment Routing Architecture
3 1/26 Hao Jiang Mobility performance and suitability of macro cell power-off in LTE dense small cell HetNets
4 2/2 Zeeshan Hakim There is more to IXPs than meets the eye
5 2/9 Junguk Cho Rethinking LTE Network Functions Virtualization
6 2/16 David Hancock U-TRI: Unlinkability Through Random Identifier for SDN Network
7 2/23 No meeting
8 3/2 Ryan Baker Undergraduate Thesis Background Presentation
9 3/9 Hyunwook Baek Retro: Targeted Resource Management in Multi-tenant Distributed Systems
10 3/16 Anand Tripathi Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings
3/23 Spring Break - No meeting
11 3/30 Aisha Syed CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations for Big Data Analytics
12 4/6 Zirak Zaheer PSI: Precise Security Instrumentation for Enterprise Networks
13 4/13 No meeting TBD
14 4/20 Meet with CSL seminar Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments


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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