CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2015

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3515

Organizers: Kobus Van der Merwe and Sneha Kasera


Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/16 Kobus Van der Merwe and Sneha Kasera
How to read a paper
2 1/23 Mojgan Khaledi
Exploring human mobility with multi-source data at extremely large metropolitan scales
3 1/30 Sriraam Subramanian
Coordinating cellular background transfers using loadsense
4 2/6 Binh Nguyen
FluidNet: a flexible cloud-based radio access network for small cells
5 2/13 Junguk Cho
QoE Doctor: Diagnosing Mobile App QoE with Automated UI Control and Cross-layer Analysis
6 2/20 Prospective Grad Visit - No meeting
7 2/27 Ren Quinn
I Know What Your Packet Did Last Hop: Using Packet Histories to Troubleshoot Networks
8 3/6 Josh Kunz
Tierless Programming and Reasoning for Software-Defined Networks
9 3/13 Aisha Syed
Controlling queue delay
10 3/20 Spring Break - No meeting
11 3/27 Makito Kano
CoAST: collaborative application-aware scheduling of last-mile cellular traffic
12 4/3 Faculty Candidate Round Table - No meeting
13 4/10 Praveen Shanmugam
OpenNetMon: Network Monitoring in OpenFlow Software-Defined Networks
14 4/17 Ryan Saunders
An information-aware QoE-centric mobile video cache
18 4/24 Mohamed Jamshidy
Refactoring network infrastructure to improve manageability: a case study of home networking


About the Class

The spring 2015 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 meeting. Summaries are to be submitted via the course Canvas page.


Course communication

Course communication will be done via Canvas.


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