CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2020

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3515

Organizer: Kobus Van der Merwe

Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/10 Kobus Van der Merwe
How to read a paper
2 1/17 JC Zhu vrAIn: A Deep Learning Approach Tailoring Computing and Radio Resources in Virtualized RANs
3 1/24 Yingjing Wu An Energy-Efficient Sleep Scheduling With QoS Consideration in 3GPP LTE-Advanced Networks for Internet of Things
4 1/31 Kirk Webb On-Off Noise Power Communication
5 2/7 Harry Jiang OpenNF: enabling innovation in network function control
6 3/6 Natalie Cottrill Effective Topology Tampering Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks
10 3/13 No meeting - Spring Break

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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