Cloud Computing and Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks
When and Where: Mon/Wed/Fri, 2:30PM-4:30PM, 三教104
(First week:
理科1号楼1131)
Professors:
Ben Zhao, ravenben at cs.ucsb.edu
Haitao Zheng, htzheng at cs.ucsb.edu
Office
Hours: Fridays 2:30PM, 理科1号楼1807)
Introduction
The field of computer networking is changing at a rapid pace.
Recent trends in computer hardware has changed the way we think about
both wired and wireless networking. This is a short class being
offered by two visiting professors from University of California at
Santa Barbara, USA. The class will consist of 2 lectures each
week (Monday/Wednesday), followed by a discussion or office hour on
research projects on Friday.
The class will cover two key topics: cloud computing and advanced
wireless networking. First, advances in server hardware and
virtual machine monitors have allowed large companies to build
extremely large data clusters of tens or hundreds of thousands of
servers, and to build a flexible computing model that not only
leverages the law of large numbers in resource management, but also
scales resource usage dynamically to meet the needs of its
clients. The result is a seismic shift towards data center and
cloud computing by large and small companies alike. The first
half of this course will examine the algorithms and software designs
that make cloud computing possible, along with research issues facing
the design and operation of large data centers. Next, the advent
of reconfigurable wireless devices such as cognitive radios and
software-defined radios has opened up significant new spaces in
wireless networking research. In the second half of this course,
we study several hot topics in wireless networking, including dynamic
spectrum access, interference mitigation and market-based
spectrum
distribution.
For both topics, we will examine recent
research published at top conferences, examine each paper to learn
about techniques in research and technical writing, and consider
current and future open research challenges. Each student will be
expected to read all assigned papers before
lecture each day, and will participate in a group project for the four
weeks of the class. Each group will present their results at the
end of the course.
Grading
(not finalized...)
Class Participation 10%
Paper Reviews 20%
Final Exam (take-home) 30%
Projects 40%