CS 591SN


New Systems and Networking Seminar

[ Spring Version ]

Spring 2007

FRIDAYS 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM. Location: 1304 Siebel Center.

(confirmed location and time)

First meeting on January 26 (second week of classes)
 

To register for the course, use CRN: 44443.
(Registration optional, but you get Credit of 1 hour)

Mailing List: cs591sn at cs dawt uiuc dot edu. To subscribe, visit here

>> NEW SPRING FORMAT THIS SPRING 07 SEMESTER! (see below)<<


Schedule of Talks

Suggestions on Doing a Good Presentation

Latest News and Announcements

One Page Information Handout: [pdf]  (alternatively: [ppt] )

Audience Feedback Form: [pdf]

Links to Previous CS591SN Seminars:

 

Organizers: Systems Faculty at the CS and ECE departments, UIUC.

 

Point of Contact: Indranil Gupta (indy at cs dawt uiuc dot edu). Other contacts: Klara Nahrstedt, Nitin Vaidya, Robin Kravets.

This seminar is devoted to a critical analysis of the new and latest papers and research in hot topics of systems and networking (includes traditional systems, wired and wireless networking, distributed systems, multimedia networked systems, and much much more). Both graduate students and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.

New Spring Version format this Spring 2007 semester! Each session devoted to one of:
  1. I.Practice Runs of Interview Talks by graduating students
  2. II.Practice Runs of Upcoming conference presentations
  3. III.Presentations of Top non-UIUC Papers from Top Conferences. 
  4. Talks by Visitors to UIUC.
I and II will be by graduating or presenting students from UIUC, and will comprise most of the seminars. For III, best papers and award-quality papers will be selected from conferences of interest (including but are limited to SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, MOBISYS, INFOCOM, SOSP, Usenix workshops, NSDI, Sensys, ICDCS, DSN, and others) and prominent journals, if necessary.

This seminar has 2 main goals:

  1. Introduce systems and networking students to a breadth of top-notch and award quality papers that everyone else in the systems&networking is talking about today.

  2. Have students give top-quality presentations, and prepare themselves for future job and conference talks.

Students will be able to obtain 1 hour credit for this seminar -- please register through the usual channels for CS 591 SN. 

Suggestions on Doing a Good CS591SN presentation

By no means comprehensive, here are some guidelines/suggestions for doing a good CS591SN presentation: 

Feel free to differ from any of the above suggestions, but only if it makes your presentation "better".

SCHEDULE

Note: If you are signed up for credit, and/or would like to present a paper, please contact the appropriate "Faculty Host" (see below) for the session in which your chosen paper belongs. If no papers are listed for that session yet, you may also send paper suggestions to the faculty host.

Date

Student Presenters and  Slides

Faculty Host

Topic

Title and Abstract/Papers (click on link)

Jan 19 -

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No Meeting.

Jan 26  Prof. King-Shan Lui

Klara Nahrstedt

Visitor from Hong Kong University (preceded by Seminar Introduction)

The Angle Coverage Problem in Visual Sensor Networks

Feb 2 Jin Liang

Indranil Gupta

Practice Interview/Job Talk
Feb 9 Prof. Sergio Servetto

 [PDF SLIDES]

Klara Nahrstedt

Visitor from Cornell University Some Network Information Theory Problems, as Understood by a CS Student
Feb 16 Cigdem Sengul

Robin Kravets

Graduate Student Talk Energy-Efficient Network Design
Feb 23

 

NO SEMINAR

 

Mar 2 Liqian Luo

Tarek Abdelzaher

Practice Interview/Job Talk

EnviroSuite: An Environmental Immersive Programming Framework for Sensor Networks

Mar 9

Praveen Jayachandran (and Raghu K. Ganti)

Ercan Ucan (and Nat Thompson)

Indranil Gupta

CS598IG (SP06) Short Project Talks

Benefits of Inter-Tree Optimizations for Content-based Pub-Sub in Sensor Networks

 

 

Scheduling of multi-stream gossip systems

Mar 16 Prof. Fabian Bustamante

Robin Kravets

Visitor from Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University

3R: Ensuring Sustainable Scalability in Globally Distributed Systems

Mar 23  

 

NO MEETING - Spring Vacation.

 

 

Mar 30 Jay Patel

 

 

Yong Yang

  Infocom 07 Practice Talks A Cross-Layer Architecture to Exploit Multi-Channel Diversity (with a Single Transceiver)  

 

Modeling the Effect of Transmit Power and Physical Carrier Sense in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

Apr 6

Anthony Cozzie

 

Long Vu

  Student Presentation

Rethink the Sync, E.B. Nightingale et al, , OSDI '06 (Best Paper)

 

Mapping the PPLive Network

Apr 13 Wenbo He   Infocom 07 Practice Talks
 
 
 
Apr 20 Prof. Andrew Campbell Nitin Vaidya Visitor, Dartmouth

Talk Cancelled (email Indy if you want to present)

Apr 27 Chen Chun-Cheng Indranil Gupta Infocom 07 Practice Talks

and

Wrap-Up and Course Evaluations

TBA

 

 

 

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News and Announcements:

1/26: First Meeting at 2.00 pm. Location 1304 SC. It is mandatory for students to show up, especially if they're taking the course for credit.



 

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