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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.

•Spring 2009 Format: Each session devoted to one of:

I.Practice Runs of Interview Talks by graduating students
II.Practice Runs of Upcoming conference presentations
III.Presentations of Top non-UIUC Papers from Top Conferences.
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:

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.
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:

Use examples - the more and the earlier, the better. It improves clarity.
Use pictures - the more, the better. It improves clarity.
Use text only where absolutely necessary - it puts folks to sleep and makes them ask more nasty questions.
Jump into the "meat" of the paper as quickly as possible - within the first 3 slides is best.
Anticipate questions that you're likely to get - better still, prepare slides that have answers (or non-answers) to these questions.
If the paper being presented is not yours, try to do justice to the authors' contribution, but also make sure you state alongside what your personal/research opinion is about each of the authors' design decisions (this can pre-empt questions, esp. if the design decision is questionable).
Remember - if you didn't write the paper, you can question everything in it. But at the same time, there is a reason why it got into a top conference.
Finally, keep track of time, because it is the only thing guaranteed to increase monotonically.
Also finally, don't be discouraged or feel bad if lots of nasty questions were asked in your presentation. The original paper was probably not so good, and/or your presentation exposed the shortcomings of the paper (which is a good thing anyway).

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 23	-	-	-	No Meeting.
Jan 30	-	-	-	No Meeting.
Feb 6	Xiaolan Zhang *Amir Houmansadr*	Steven S. Lumetta	ONDM 2009 practice talk NDSS 2009 practice talk	Resource Provisioning for Dynamic Multi-domain WDM Networks: Effectiveness and Fairness, Xiaolan J. Zhang, Sun-il Kim, Steven S. Lumetta. RAINBOW: A Robust And Invisible Non-Blind Watermark for Network Flows, Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, Nikita Borisov
Feb 13	No seminar (Yahoo! Day-Long Tutorial on the Cirrus Cloud)
Feb 20	Lin Tan	Yuanyuan Zhou	Practice Interview Talk	Leveraging Code Comments to Improve Software Reliability
Feb 27	P. Brighten Godfrey	Matthew Caesar	Intel Research/New CS UIUC Faculty (joining Fall 09)	Pathlet Routing [abstract]
Mar 6	*Steve Ko*	Indranil Gupta	Practice Interview Talk	Towards Responsive Data Centers Handling Massive Data [abstract]
Mar 13	NO SEMINAR
Mar 20
Mar 27	NO MEETING - Spring Vacation.
Apr 3	Riccardo Crepaldi Sam Nelson	Robin Kravets	INFOCOM 2009 practice talk	Using failure models for controlling data availability in wireless sensor networks, Riccardo Crepaldi, Mirko Montanari, Indranil Gupta, Robin H. Kravets Encounter-Based Routing in DTNs, Samuel Nelson, Mehedi Bakht, Robin Kravets
Apr 10	William Conner *Shuyi Chen*	Klara Nahrstedt	WWW 2009 practice talk Infocom 2009 practice talk	A Trust Management Framework for Service-Oriented Environments, William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas Mikalsen, Isabelle Rouvellou, and Klara Nahrstedt ??
Apr 17	Qiyan Wang *Saman Aliari Zonouz*	Matt Caesar/Klara Nahrstedt	Infocom 2009 practice talk DSN 2009 practice talk	Time Valid One-Time Signature for Time Critical Multicast Data Authentication, Qiyan Wang, Himanshu Khurana, Ying Huang, Klara Nahrstedt RRE: A Game-Theoretic Intrusion Response and Recovery Engine
Apr 24	Changhoon Kim	Matt Caesar	Visitor from Princeton University	Scalable and Efficient Self-Configuring Networks
May 1	Steve Ko	Indranil Gupta	Usenix HotOS 2009 practice talk Wrapup	On Availability of Intermediate Data in Cloud Computations, Steve Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, Indranil Gupta

News and Announcements:

1/27: First Meeting on Feb 6 at 1105 SC 4 pm - 4.50 pm. Location 1105 SC. It is mandatory for students to show up, especially if they're taking the course for credit.

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