Course: Advanced Network Computing

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Introduction

This course will introduce recent advances in network computing. Specifically, it contains four sections: SDN/NFV, Edge Computing, IoT, and Network Big Data. In SDN/NFV, we mainly talk about two topics: Consistent update, traffic engineering and VNF embedding. In Edge Computing, we mainly talk about the topics of deployment and task offloading. In Internet-of-Things, we mainly talk about the topics of low-power protocols, long-range IoT and IoT applications/systems. In Network Big Data, we mainly talk about the topics of wireless sensing and various applications based on smartphone big data.

Reference books:

Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach, 2014
Network Function Virtualization: Ken Gray, Thomas D. Nadeau, 2016
Big Data and The Internet of Things, 2015
Edge Computing: From Hype to Reality, 2019

Requirements (2020)

Final score = 40% x class presentation+ 60% x exam.

Class presentation

The class score comes from the class presentations.

Paper selection

Each student is required to participate in a presentation (15-20min) of a research paper selected from the top conferences/journals in network computing. Each presentation allows up to three presenters. The third presenter will have 10 points fewer than the first two members.

Conference/journal rankings:

Class A: SigComm/INFOCOM/MobiCom/ToN/TMC/TPDS/JSAC/TC/NSDI/
Class B: MobiHoc/MobiSys/SenSys/ICDCS/IPSN/ICNP/IWQoS/other IEEEACM Transactions
Class C: SECON/MASS/DCOSS/Posters from Class-A conferences

If you have no idea after gone through the above list, you may select papers from the list.

Time slots

We have in total 32 time slots for presentations. Please send a mail to "anc_course@mobinets.org" and apply for a specific slot. The format of the mail is shown as below.

Title: 时间序列申请 (Time slot application)
Mail: 
论文 (Paper info)：XXXXX, Conference/Journal name, Year
申请序列 (Preferred slots)：14,21,1
演讲成员 (Members)：
吴亦凡 (Name1)；201901233210
鹿晗 (Name2)； 201801233211
赵本山 (Name3)； 201701233212

Please refer to the following time table before applying for a specific time slot. Green blocks are available slots.

Time\Date	10/12		10/19		10/26		11/02
19:30-20:00	1	2	9	10	17	18	25	26
20:05-20:35	3	4	11	12	19	20	27	28
20:40-21:10	5	6	13	14	21	22	29	30
21:15-21:45	7	8	15	16	23	24	31	32

Presentations:

王子言, 胡诗琪, 许桐, Delay-Optimal Distributed Edge Computing in Wireless Edge Networks, INFOCOM 2020
邵安, 周家豪, Probabilistic Verification of Network Configurations, SIGCOMM 2020
谢雨岑, 周莉, A Structured Bidirectional LSTM Deep Learning Method For 3D Terahertz Indoor Localization, INFOCOM 2020
陈程, 杨森, Camel: Smart, Adaptive Energy Optimization for Mobile Web Interactions, INFOCOM 2020
唐歆宇, 王雨翰, Shifter: A Consistent Multicast Routing Update Scheme in Software-Defined Networks, ICNP 2018
李鑫, 罗宇豪, MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation, SigComm 2018
王俊, 朱道冰, Millions of Tiny Databases, NSDI 2020
何腾洋, 董广县, Deep Learning based Wireless Localization for Indoor Navigation, MobiCom 2020
许凯, 张志轩, 邓昭泳, Secure Short-Packet Communications for IoT, TWC/2019
曾耀海, 王景宽, Predictive Scheduling for Virtual Reality, INFOCOM 2020
喻杰林, 彭冲, HPCC: high precision congestion control, SIGCOMM, 2019
刘崇梽, 刘佳玺, Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications, NSDI 2020
张艺乐, (How Much) Does a Private WAN Improve Cloud Performance?, INFOCOM 2020

Exam

The exam will contain two types of questions: Concept understanding (7 questions) and problem-solving (2 questions). Don't worry if you do not major in computer networks because all questions will be selected from class tests (answers will be discussed in class).

Bonus system

You have chance to get bonus points before the presentations and the final exam. Here are the ways how you get bonus:

Select papers from top venues.

We encourage all students to select papers from the Class-A conferences and journals.

A Class-A paper gets 4 bonus points for presentation.
A Class-B paper gets 2 bonus points for presentation.

Select earlier time slots

As most of you have no experience of public presentations, I believe pioneers will take more pressure. As a result, the earlier you do the presentation, more bonus you get. Specifically,

time slots 1-6 get 3 bonus points
time slots 9-14 get 2 bonus points
time slots 7,8, 17-22 get 1 bonus points

Raise questions to presenters

To encourage the discussion of the presentation, each raised question will be given a 2 points bonus. Each student can gain 6 bonus (three questions) points at most.

Slides

The slides will be sent to all students in class. Note: the questions and answers will not be shared.