CS 7943: Networking Seminar — Spring 2021
Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm Online via Zoom
Schedule (subject to change)
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.
College of Engineering Academic Guidelines
You can read about the College of Engineering's policies on appeals,
withdrawing from courses, and repeating courses here.