›› General Information

This is a weekly seminar for discussing recent, interesting papers in the systems and networking area, covering topics in networking, operating systems, distributed systems, architecture and databases.  Each week,  we will discuss two papers selected from recent/upcoming conferences.  Each presenter will prepare a 30 minute presentation to cover an overview of the paper, followed by a group discussion on the merits of the paper and a short brainstorming.

In this Fall quarter, our seminar will focus on papers from OSDI, Mobicom, Sigcomm 2006.  We will meet every Wed.  1-2pm at CTL.

Students can sign up for 2 credits. Only requirement for course credit is to present two papers and regular attendance. Of course, everyone is welcome to just sit in and attend sessions selectively.

Required reading: How to Read, Write and Present Papers by Nitin Vaidya

›› Presentation schedule

Date Presenter 1 Presenter 2
October 4 Kickoff meeting and schedule assignment
October 11 Sudipto Das: Designing DCCP: Congestion
Control Without Reliability, SIGCOMM'06		 Lei Yang: Distributed Channel Management in Uncoordinated Wireless Environments, Mobicom'06
October 18 No class, please attend Engineering Insights event (Corwin Pavilion)
October 25 N/A
 N/A
November 1 Prashanth A. K. Acharya: XORs in The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding, SIGCOMM'06 Tierui Chen: Planet Scale Software Updates, SIGCOMM'06
November 8 Aydin Buluc: Improving spatial reuse through tuning transmit power, carrier sense threshold, and data rate in multihop wireless networks, Mobicom'06
Shuo Wu:  The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems, OSDI'06
November 15 Muath A. Alkhalaf: Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers, SIGCOMM'06. Krishna Puttaswamy: TCP Offload through Connection Handoff, EuroSys'06.
November 22 Fenglin Liao: Rethink the Sync, OSDI'06 Lili Cao: Systematic Topology Analysis and Generation Using Degree Correlations, SIGCOMM'06
November 29 Ashwin Sampath : A Coordinate-Based Approach for Exploiting Temporal-Spatial Diversity in Wireless Mesh Networks Vinod Kone: Source Selectable Path Diversity via Routing Deflections, SIGCOMM'06
December 6