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 |
11th Jan |
13th Jan Class Introduction Lecture slides (pdf) |
15th Jan Mesh Networks Pre-Reading: Roofnet Lecture slides (pdf) |
18th Jan |
20th Jan Geographic Routing (in Simulation) Pre-Reading: GPSR Lecture slides (pdf) |
22nd Jan Geographic Routing (in Practice) Pre-Reading: CLDP Lecture slides (pdf) |
25th Jan |
27th Jan Adapting to the Wireless Channel Pre-Reading: SampleRate Lecture slides (pdf) |
29th Jan Sensor Hints for Wireless Pre-Reading: Sensor Hints Lecture notes (txt) |
1st Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 1 |
3rd Feb Partial Packet Recovery Pre-Reading: Maranello Lecture slides (pdf) |
5th Feb No lecture today! |
8th Feb |
10th Feb Partial Packet Recovery (cont'd) |
12th Feb Consistent Hashing: DHTs Pre-Reading: Chord Lecture slides (pdf) |
15th Feb Reading week |
17th Feb Reading week |
19th Feb Reading week |
22nd Feb, 5 - 6:30 PM Cloud Storage: Dynamo Pre-Reading:
Dynamo Lecture slides: (pdf) GZ06 Paper Presentation Guidelines (pdf) |
24th Feb No lecture today! |
26th Feb No lecture today! |
29th Feb, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Midterm exam 2 |
2nd Mar Hybrid Mobile-Cloud Applications Pre-Reading: MAUI Lecture slides (pdf) |
4th Mar Parallelism in the Cloud: MapReduce Pre-Reading: MapReduce Lecture slides (pdf) |
7th Mar |
9th Mar Main-Memory Parallel Computing on Clusters Pre-Reading: Spark Lecture slides (pdf) |
11th Mar Student Presentations Chaiphet, Cheng: |
14th Mar |
16th Mar Student Presentations Ataullah, Syamasundar: Johnson: |
18th Mar Student Presentations Doyle, Robinson: Jiang, Wang: |
21st Mar |
23rd Mar, 11 AM - 1 PM Student Presentations Awad, Gakos: Chen, Dan: 23rd Mar, 5 PM - 7 PM Midterm exam 3 |
25th Mar Easter break |