Seminar "Advanced Internet Technology"
Block seminar on current advanced in Internet technology, e.g. new network architectures, wireless networks, mobile and wireless systems in general.
Organizational Information
- Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle
- Teaching Assistants: Monica Lora, Raimondas Sasnauskas
- 2 SWS
- ETCS Credits: 4
- Registration: during official registration process in January 2011
Important Dates
- Kick-off Meeting: beginning of April, date is announced to the participants after closing of the registration process
- Introductory lectures on how to write a seminar paper and how to give a presentation: announced / determined at the kick-off meeting
- Submission of papers and presentations: announced during the kick-off meeting
- Seminar Talks: block seminar, end of the semester or beginning of the lecture-free time
Topics
Each member of the ComSys team will assign one or two topics from his/her current research area. Thus, the topics will be current reserach topics from areas of
- Network architectures: Peer-to-Peer systems, Delay-Tolerant Networks
- Wireless networks: Algorithms for sensor networks / ad-hoc networks
- Mobility and security in Inteternet protocols and applications
- Cross-Layer protocols
- Simulation and Evaluation of protocols and large distributed systems
Seminar Details
The seminar provides a broad overview on existing distributed system and current research topics in advanced areas of Internet technology. It is our paramount interest to see that you gain a thorough understanding of your seminar topic and that you are able to convey this understanding to the other participants. For you to benefit from the presented knowledge, we encourage active participation and interaction between students. You will both synchronize with each other while preparing your talk as some topics overlap and discuss the contents after the talks themselves.
Your contribution to the seminar is twofold: you present your topic concisely in a 30-minute talk to the other seminarists and you supply a paper providing more detail on the topic than the talk. Furthermore, you are expected to engage in discussions about each talk. Plagiarism of any form is unacceptable and will lead to your immediate suspension from the seminar. The recommendations at http://www.i4.de/ -> Teaching -> Seminar are a good starting point for designing and writing your slides and your paper. Please adhere to them to avoid disappointment when discussing your work with your supervisor.
In production od the seminar paper, we follow a "conferece organization style". That means: after the assignment of topics at the kick-off meeting, you have some weeks (5 - 6 weeks) to do a literature survey and to prepare a paper about the topic. You are submitting your paper like for a conference: it will be reviewed and you get back comments for improvement of your paper. The reviewing process will also be done by the seminar participants, i.e. you have to write a reveiw to two or three other seminar papers (and you also get feedback from two or three other students). Baisng on the comments, you have to prepare the final version of your seminar paper and afterwards a presentation, too.
Talks
The goal of the talk is to give the audience a good understanding of the whole topic and to dive into a few interesting details of the subject matter. The ratio of one to the other depends on the topic and needs to be determined with your supervisor. Each talk is scheduled to be 30 minutes, with 25 and 35 minutes being hard lower and upper bounds, respectively. Ten minutes of discussion follow each talk.
Papers
While the talk focuses on the overview and details of interest, the paper allows you to discuss your topic in its full breadth and depth. It covers all aspects of the talk and provides additional insights to related work and specifics. For example, source code snippets or interface descriptions would not go into your talk but may well show up in your paper where applicable.
The papers are based on the official ACM conference style and are expected to be between eight and ten pages in length (hard limits). ACM provides official templates for a number of formats but we encourage you to use LaTeX for writing your paper.
Prerequisites
To paticipate in the seminar, you should have some preknowledge in Internet technology. That ist, you should have attended a lecture on data communications (or, in case of Bachelor students, "Sichere Verteilte Systeme") and/or one of the lectures "Advanced Internet Technology" / "Mobile Communication and Sensor Networks". In case you have not attended one of these lectures but nevertheless some knowledge about Internet technology from other sources, participation also is possible.