CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2019

Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm   MEB 3515

Organizer: Kobus Van der Merwe

Schedule (subject to change)

Week Date Facilitator Paper
1 1/11 Kobus Van der Merwe
How to read a paper
2 1/18 Zeeshan Hakim Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
3 1/25 Simon Redman Expect the unexpected: Sub-second optimization for segment routing
4 2/1 Harry (Hao) Jiang NDN.p4: Programming information-centric data-planes
5 2/8 Aisha Syed Selecting the best VM across multiple public clouds: a data-driven performance modeling approach
6 2/15 JC Zhu Cellular Network Traffic Scheduling with Deep Reinforcement Learning
7 2/22 No meeting -- Please attend student posters during grad visit
8 3/1 Boston Terry Adaptive Federated Learning in Resource Constrained Edge Computing Systems
9 3/8 No Meeting
10 3/15 No meeting - Spring Break
11 3/22 Simon Redman A Practical Approach to Flow Prioritization with Segment Routing
12 3/29 Aisha Syed Orchestrating for E2E Application Performance in Uncertain FaaS Ecosystems
13 4/5 Zeeshan Hakin Service Specific Interdomain Routing
14 4/12 Hao (Harry) Jiang A Flexible and Efficient Transport Network for Network Slicing
15 4/19 Jincao (JC) Zhu Intelligent Radio Resource Management in Cellular Networks

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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