General Information
When and Where: Tues/Thur, 3:00--4:50PM, TR-932 (digital classroom)
Professor: Ben Zhao,
ravenben at cs.ucsb.edu
TA: Shaomei Wu
Office Hours:
- Ben: Thursdays 10AM-11AM
- Shaomei: M 3-4PM
Class Email List: CS290F
Google Group
Prerequisites: Solid background in networking (CS176A+B or 276).
Introduction
This course will focus on studying the state of the art in large networked systems,
from both the networking and systems perspectives. The expectation is that everyone has
sufficient background on networking and systems. Thus classes will not focus on
"teaching" from a textbook, but rather on discussions of current publications, with the
end goal of producing real, publishable research by the end of the quarter.
There will be no homeworks or exams. The class grade will be based on reviews of each
paper discussed in class, your presentation of a research paper, and a course research
project. For the project, the class will form project groups of 3-4 members each. Each
group will design, implement and present a networking project that innovates on the
topics discussed in class. You will write a conference style paper describing the
contributions of your work, and present your findings in a presentation at
the end of the quarter.
Grading Policies
Your quarter grade will be derived from paper reviews, a class presentation, and the
class project:
- paper reviews, 20%
- class presentation, 30%
- class project, 50%