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

13th Jan

15th Jan

Class Introduction (BK)

Lecture slides (pdf)

17th Jan

Mesh Networks (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

20th Jan

22nd Jan

Geographic Routing (in Simulation) (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

24th Jan

Geographic Routing (in Practice) (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

27th Jan

29th Jan

Adapting to the Wireless Channel (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

31st Jan

Sensor Hints for Wireless (BK)

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

Lecture notes (txt)

3rd Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 1
Location: 14-16 Taviton Street, Room 347

5th Feb

Rateless Codes (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

7th Feb

Wireless Diversity (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

10th Feb

12th Feb

Consistent Hashing: DHTs (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

14th Feb

Cloud Storage: Dynamo (BK)

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

Lecture slides: (pdf)

17th Feb

Reading week

19th Feb

Reading week

21st Feb

Reading week

24th Feb

26th Feb

Indoor WiFi Localization (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf); lecture notes (pdf)

28th Feb

Partial Packet Recovery (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

3rd Mar, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Midterm exam 2
Location: Bentham House, B11 Seminar Room 4

5th Mar

Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Applications (BK)

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

Lecture slides (pdf)

7th Mar

Parallelism in the Cloud: MapReduce (KJ)

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

Lecture slides (pdf); lecture notes (pdf)

10th Mar

12th Mar

TBA (KJ)

Pre-Reading: TBA

14th Mar, 3 PM - 5 PM

Student Presentations

Koupparis, Mursalzade:
CrowdSearch: Exploiting Crowds for Accurate Real-time Image Search on Mobile Phones pdf
Slides

Lyras, Mifsud:
Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

17th Mar

19th Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM

Student Presentations

T. Liang, T. Liu:
Building Web Applications on Top of Encrypted Data Using Mylar pdf
Slides

Cocora, Lee:
The Horus WLAN Location Determination System pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

21st Mar, 3 PM - 5 PM

Student Presentations

Y. Liu, W. Wang:
xShare: Supporting Impromptu Sharing of Mobile Phones pdf
Slides

Y. Liang, Y. Wang:
An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching pdf
Slides

One-pager assignment (pdf)

24th Mar

26th Mar, 11 AM - noon

Student Presentations

Yi, Zhang:
RADAR: An In-Building RF-Based User Location and Tracking Systems pdf

One-pager assignment (pdf)

28th Mar

Midterm exam 3
Time: 3 - 4:30 PM
Location: Chandler House, Room G10