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Project

Project submission deadlines

  • Topic and contact person: Sept 25
  • List of papers, with one-one sentence motivation: Oct 2
  • Outline, max one page, paper structure, content of sections:  Oct 9
  • Final report, max 5 pages:  Oct 16
  • Presentation day:  Oct 18-23,  to be defined
  • Improved report (if necessary): Oct 30

How does the project work?

  • You have to work in groups – two students per group + PhD student
  • Select topic from the list or any topic you like. I would like to know which topic you have selected. If you suggest your own topic, you have to get my agreement.
  • You will have to overview 3-4 papers. The papers should discuss/use mathematical models for performance evaluations. Send me the paper references (authors, title, where it was published) once you have them.
  • You have to prepare a written report of ca. 5 pages, comparing the selected papers (not just discussing them one after the other!). Send me the outline of the report before you write a detailed version.
  • Each project will be presented on the last seminar in a talk of about 20 minutes.

Which sources to look at?

The following journals and conferences are good sources of high quality papers. Check some papers form the last years, read the related work chapters and look for often referenced early publications. Often they are the ones with basic results in an area. Select papers from different authors / author groups to have different views on the problem.

You can find the full papers through www.lib.kth.se, if you are in the campus.

  • IEEE Communication Magazine – publishes mainly overview papers
  • IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom – major networking conferences
  • IEEE Transaction on Networking, Mobile Computing, Wireless Communications, or similar – heavy research results, often hard to read…..
  • ACM Sigcomm – very selective networking conference, basic Internet research, the mathematical models are usually possible to follow.

How should the paper look like?

You should write a paper that looks like a typical conference paper. We have read several of them during the course, look at their structure. You can find useful advice here: IEEE author guide. Specifically, look at Section 6 for paper structure.

Use latex to write the report. You can use the IEEE conference template.

Submission instructions

Topic (2 points): please submit the topic you have selected as follows:

  • subject: EP2210 topic {group #}
  • in the body: motivation why the topic was selected. Also, please give the contact person from the group. I will answer to him/her.

List of papers (5 points): please submit the list of selected papers as follows:

  • subject: EP2210 list of papers {group #}
  • in the body: please write simple text, no attachments. For each selected paper: give the exact reference and a max 10 lines motivation on why the paper was selected.
  • how to give full reference: list of authors, title of the paper, place and year of publication. For example: L. Massoulie, J. Roberts, “Bandwidth sharing: objectives and algorithms,” IEEE Infocom 2000.
  • Note, do not send me the papers themselves, I can find them on the web.

Outline (3 points): please submit the outline of your report as follows:

  • subject: EP2210 outline {group #}
  • in the body: please write simple text, no attachments. Follow the structure of scientific papers. Compulsory parts are Abstract, Introduction and Conclusion. Between Introduction and Conclusion structure the paper according to your needs. For each section write max 10 lines or a couple of bullets on what the section will contain.

Final report (5 points): please submit your report as follows:

  • subject: EP2210 final report {group #}
  • attached: the paper, in pdf format, if possible. Follow the structure of scientific papers. Compulsory parts are Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion, References. Between Introduction and Conclusion structure the paper according to your needs. The paper can not be longer than 5 pages.

Presentation:

20 minutes presentation per group. All group members should be there. Make sure that your presentation is not longer than 20 minutes. (5 points)

Topics:

  1. How to utilize the processing power of nodes that happen to forward the traffic? W Culhane, K Kogan, Ch Jayalath, and P Eugster, "Optimal Communication Structures for Big Data Aggregation". IEEE Infocom 2015.
  2. SDN: how to apply SDN for routing optimization in large networks? S. Agarwal, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, “Traffic engineering in software defined networks,” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
  3. SDN: how to migrate from a non-SDN to an SDN: S. Vissicchio et al., “On the Co-Existence of Distributed and Centralized Routing Control-Planes”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2015.
  4. How does content cashing decrease network traffic: Ch Fricker, Ph Robert, J Roberts, "A versatile and accurate approximation for LRU cache performance." International Teletraffic Congress 2012.
  5. Multimedia, how to control scalable video coded streams? J. Yang, H. Hu, H. Xi, and L. Hanzo, “Online buffer fullness estimation aided adaptive media playout for video streaming,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1141–1153, Oct 2011.
  6. Autonomous cars: Stefan Joerer, Michele Segata, Bastian Bloessl, Renato Lo Cigno, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "A Vehicular Networking Perspective on Estimating Vehicle Collision Probability at Intersections," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63 (4), pp. 1802-1812, May 2014.

Other fancy areas nowadays are: device to device communication, energy harvesting and energy transfer, edge computing, internet of things,  cloud computing networks, vehicular networks, tactile Internet, multipath TCP ... I can help you to find good papers to start with.