M038/GZ06: Calendar

Detailed Class Calendar

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 Wednesday Friday

7th Jan

9th Jan

Class Introduction (KJ)

Lecture slides (pdf)

11th Jan

Mesh Networks (BK)

Pre-Reading: Roofnet
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

14th Jan

16th Jan

Adapting to the Wireless Channel (KJ)

Pre-Reading: SampleRate
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf); lecture notes (txt)

18th Jan

Indoor WiFi Localization (KJ)

Pre-Reading: Zee
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf); lecture notes (pdf)

21st Jan

23rd Jan

Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK)

Pre-Reading: GPSR
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

25th Jan

Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK)

Pre-Reading: CLDP
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

28th Jan, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 1
Location: Wilkins Old Refectory

30th Jan

Wireless Diversity (KJ)

Pre-Reading: MRD
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

1st Feb

Parallelism in the Cloud: MapReduce (KJ)

Pre-Reading: MapReduce
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf); lecture notes (pdf)

4th Feb

6th Feb

Consistent Hashing: DHTs (BK)

Pre-Reading: Chord
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

8th Feb

Cloud Storage: Dynamo (BK)

Pre-Reading: Dynamo
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides: (pdf)

11th Feb

Reading week

13th Feb

Reading week

15th Feb

Reading week

18th Feb

20th Feb

Sensor Hints for Wireless (BK)

Pre-Reading: Sensor Hints
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture notes (txt)

22nd Feb

Overcoming Interference I: Interference Cancellation (KJ)

Pre-Reading: Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense

Lecture slides (pdf)

One-pager assignment (pdf)

25th Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 2
Location: Bentham B01 Main Lecture Theatre

27th Feb

Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Applications (BK)

Pre-Reading: MAUI
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

1st Mar

Overcoming Interference II: Multi-Antenna Interference Nulling and Alignment (KJ)

Pre-Reading: MIMO for Dummies
Pre-Reading: Interference Alignment and Cancellation
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf)

4th Mar

6th Mar

Rateless Codes (KJ)

Pre-Reading: Spinal Codes
One-pager assignment (pdf)

Lecture slides (pdf), lecture notes (pdf)

8th Mar, 9 AM - 11 AM

Student Presentations

Barlow-Bignell, Gjengset:
Large-Scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications pdf
Slides

Fraguela:
Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

11th Mar

13th Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM

Student Presentations

Silva, Vasani:
SPORC: Group Collaboration Using Untrusted Cloud Resources pdf
Slides

Yerbolat, Mizutani:
Cells: A Virtual Mobile Smartphone Architecture pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

15th Mar, 9 AM - 11 AM

Student Presentations

T. Huang, Xu:
Breadcrumbs: Forecasting Mobile Connectivity pdf
Slides

Nie, X. Huang:
JMB: Scaling Wireless Capacity with User Demands pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

18th Mar

20th Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM

Student Presentations

Tazhkenov, Vaghela:
Transactional Storage for Geo-Replicated Systems pdf
Slides

Oliha, Zheng:
FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

22nd Mar

Midterm exam 3
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 AM
Location: MPEB 1.20