Hot Topics in Networking and Systems

   

Ben Y. Zhao
Fall 2005

Overview

This seminar brings together participants to read and discuss papers of interest from this year's top conferences on networking and systems.  Every year, roughly 20-30 papers are presented at each of these conferences. This forum allows interested parties together to discuss and share ideas about these papers.  At each session, one or two students will present up to 3 papers from any number of conferences collected around a central topic (e.g. network coordination systems or interdomain routing).  The goal is to cover the majority of the relevant / interesting papers from SIGCOMM and SOSP (for the fall), and Mobicom/MobiHoc and NSDI (for the spring).

Presentations should give sufficient background on the topic (to get the audience up to speed), cover the relevant points of the papers, and provide additional insights / commentary / questions where appropriate.

Relevant conferences

These conferences have already posted their tentative programs online. The SIGCOMM papers are available on the website. Papers from SOSP and Mobicom should be available on authors' homepages via Google.  Please email me if you have trouble obtaining the papers you want to present.

Papers can be chosen from a variety of topics on systems and networking. The following is a short list of suggestions, but students are free to choose papers on their own preferred topics.

Operating Systems
 Mobile Networking
 General Networking
Isolation
 Multi-radio / Multi-channel
 Peer-to-Peer Networking
Bug detection
 Geographic and Wireless Routing
 Throughput and Congestion Control
File Systems
 Sensornets
 Network Security

General Info

Time: Thursdays, 1PM-2:30PM
Place: Engineering I, 2114 (CS Conference Room)
Enrollment Code: 71266
Units: 2
Grading: S/U

Presentation schedule: