Below follows a day-by-day calendar for the class, including reading assignments, one-pager questions, and the schedule for student presentations (filled in once students have selected papers to present). Lecture notes will be posted immediately after each lecture.
Class meetings consist largely of discussions of research papers. They are designed under the assumption that students have already read the assigned papers (which also will have been necessary to answer the one-pager assigned with each paper). If you do not read the papers that appear on a day of the calendar before that day's lecture, you are likely to have difficulty following the lecture and discussion.
Each day on the calendar includes a link to a question about a reading assigned for that day. Students must write a short 200- to 500-word answer to the question, and must turn in this one-pager at the start of the lecture on the day the question appears on the calendar.
| Monday | Tuesday | Friday |
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9th Jan |
10th Jan Introduction (KJ) Lecture slides (pdf) |
13th Jan Mesh Networks (BK) Pre-Reading: Roofnet Lecture slides (pdf) |
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16th Jan |
17th Jan Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK) Pre-Reading: GPSR Lecture slides (pdf) |
20th Jan Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK) Pre-Reading: CLDP Lecture slides (pdf) |
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23rd Jan |
24th Jan Consistent Hashing: DHTs (BK) Pre-Reading: Chord Lecture slides (pdf) |
27th Jan Cloud Storage: Dynamo (BK) Pre-Reading:
Dynamo Lecture notes (from Matei Ripeanu, UBC): (ppt) |
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30th Jan, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 1 |
31st Jan Parallelism in the Cloud: MapReduce (KJ) |
3rd Feb Adapting to the Wireless Channel I (KJ) Pre-Reading: SampleRate |
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6th Feb |
7th Feb Adapting to the Wireless Channel II (KJ) Pre-Reading: SampleWidth Lecture slides (pdf) Location: Foster Court 132 |
10th Feb Wireless Diversity (KJ) Pre-Reading: MRD Lecture slides (pdf) |
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13th Feb Reading week |
14th Feb Reading week |
17th Feb Reading week |
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20th Feb |
21st Feb Sensor Hints for Wireless (BK) Pre-Reading: Sensor Hints Lecture notes (txt) Location: Foster Court 132 |
24th Feb Overcoming Interference (KJ) Pre-Reading: Taking
the Sting out of Carrier Sense Lecture slides (pdf) One-pager assignment (pdf) |
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27th Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 2 |
28th Feb Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Applications (BK) Pre-Reading: MAUI Lecture slides (pdf) Location: MPEB 1.13 |
2nd Mar Vehicle Tracking with the Viterbi Algorithm (KJ) Pre-Reading: The
Viterbi Algorithm (Sections I-III incl.) Lecture slides (pdf) |
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5th Mar |
6th Mar Rateless Codes (KJ) Pre-Reading: Spinal
Codes Lecture slides (pdf), lecture notes (pdf) Location: MPEB 1.13 |
9th Mar Class canceled |
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12th Mar |
13th Mar Location: Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT 4 - 5 PM Wei Zeng, Jianlei Zhang, Yongzhi Zhuang Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Presentation Slides 5 - 6 PM Christos Mantas, Angelos Sakellaropoulos Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage Presentation Slides Presentation slides due for all groups: 4 PM One-pager assignment (pdf) |
16th Mar Location: Roberts 309 9:30 - 10:30 AM Adam Adamou, Tommaso Catuogno Darwin Phones: the Evolution of Sensing and Inference on Mobile Phones Presentation Slides One-pager assignment (pdf) |
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19th Mar Location: Drayton B03 Ricardo LT 11 AM - 12 PM Ioannis Gyftakis, Michail-Georgios Leivadas Fast Crash Recovery in RAMCloud Presentation Slides 12 - 1 PM Ilias Marinos, Peter Tsonchev An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores Presentation Slides One-pager assignment (pdf) |
20th Mar Location: Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry LT 5 - 6 PM Arvind Jadoo, Christian Petrescu Fine-grained Channel Access in Wireless LAN One-pager assignment (pdf) Presentation Slides |
23rd Mar Location: Roberts 309 9 - 11 AM Midterm exam 3 Please note that the exam will start at 9 o'clock sharp as we need to vacate the room by 11 |