Computer Networking (CN) Course, Fall 2009

Assignment 2

In this assignment, each of you is assigned five related and recent research papers (see below for the paper assignment). Note that the set of papers you are specifically assigned depends on the setyou fall in. Your goal is two-fold: (1) write a review for each of the papers assigned to you (no more than an A4 page for each paper) following the guidance on writing a good referee report in [1]; (2) write a 1-2 page survey on the topic of the five papers you are asked to read and any additional related papers you chose to read on your own.

  1. A. J. Smith, The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1990.

Submission and Assessment

The deadline for this assignment is 4pm on Monday, 30 November 2009.No late submissions are allowed, except under extenuating circumstances.You must submit a printed version of your complete report (including all five reviews and the survey) to the ITO by the deadline.

You are expected to work on this coursework on your own. Any kind of copying will result in punitive action.

This assignment is worth 12.5% of the overall course mark (or half the coursework mark). Your report is judged by the quality of your reviews and the survey – each review is worth 2% and the survey is worth 2.5%. The quality of a paper review is determined by your ability to clearly and succinctly summarize the papercontributions, evaluate the importance and difficulty of the problem tackled in a larger context, identify strengths and weaknesses of the proposed approach, seeing relationships with other work/problems you encountered before and identifying possibilities for future work. The quality of the survey depends on your ability to describe different pieces of related work in a single coherent document focusing on how each of them addresses the broader technical problem and how they relate to each other, thereby indicating the state-of-the-art on the topic in question and opportunities for further work; necessarily, the quality of your review indirectly depends on the quality of your reviews.

Paper Assignment

Set 1

Papers:

  1. J. Robinson, R. Swaminathan, and E. Knightly, “Assessment of Urban-Scale Wireless Networks with a Small Number of Measurements,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2008.
  2. J. Camp, V. Mancuso, O. Gurewitz, and E. Knightly, “A Measurement Study of Multiplicative Overhead Effects in Wireless Networks,”Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2008.
  3. J. Robinson and E. Knightly, “A Performance Study of Deployment Factors in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2007.
  4. J. Camp, J. Robinson, C. Steger, and E. Knightly, “Measurement Driven Deployment of a Two-Tier Urban Mesh Access Network,” Proc. MobiSys, 2006.
  5. J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, S. Biswas, R. Morris, “Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2005.

Students:Athanasios Kapelonis, Anastasia Melnikova, Yi Qin, Andrei Spataru, Jakub Gaszczak, Karol Kalna, Franklin Wahl

Set 2

Papers:

  1. Domenico Giustiniano et al., “An Explanation for Unexpected 802.11 Outdoor Link-Level Measurement Results,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2008.
  2. D. Gokhale, S. Sen, K. Chebrolu, and B. Raman, “On the Feasibility of the Link Abstraction in (Rural) Mesh Networks,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2008.
  3. A. Sheth et al., “Packet Loss Characterization in WiFi-based Long Distance Networks,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2007.
  4. K. Chebrolu, B. Raman and S. Sen, “Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and Experience,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2006.
  5. D. Aguayo et al., “Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network,” Proc. ACM Sigcomm, 2004.

Students:Stuart Beard,Xiao Feng,Harrison Gilmore,Harry Gordon,Qi Li,Andrew Mcpherson,Efstathia Mouzeli,Hao Wang

Set 3

Papers:

  1. J. Eriksson, H. Balakrishnan and S. Madden, “Cabernet: Vehicular Content Delivery Using WiFi,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2008.
  2. A. Balasubramanian et al, “Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles,” Proc. ACM Sigcomm, 2008.
  3. V. Navda et al., “MobiSteer: Using Steerable Beam Directional Antenna for Vehicular Network Access,” Proc. Mobisys, 2007.
  4. D. Hadaller, S. Keshav, T. Brecht and S. Agarwal, “Vehicular Opportunistic Communication Under the Microscope,” Proc. MobiSys, 2007.
  5. V. Bychkovsky et al., “A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2006.

Students:StephenHenry, Yue Ma,Alexandros Ouzounis,Chris Berry,Brian Maclellan,Alex Price,Peter Sandilands,Wenduan Xu

Set 4

Papers:

  1. G. Judd, X. Wang and P. Steenkiste, “Efficient Channel-Aware Rate Adaptation in Dynamic Environments,” Proc. MobiSys, 2008.
  2. Q. Xia and M. Hamdi, “Smart Sender: A Practical Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multirate IEEE 802.11 WLANs,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 2008.
  3. J. Zhang et al., “A Practical SNR-Guided Rate Adaptation,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2008.
  4. S. Rayanchu et al., “Diagnosing Wireless Packet Losses in 802.11: Separating Collision from Weak Signal,” Proc. IEEE Infocom, 2008.
  5. P. Acharya et al., “Congestion-Aware Rate Adaptation in Wireless Networks: A Measurement-Driven Approach,” Proc. IEEE SECON, 2008.

Students: Vassil Hristov, Afraz Mamoon,Luis Pineda Morales,Iulia Vasii,Alexandre Goudoux,David Kordac,Simon Vansintjan

Set 5

Papers:

  1. S. Choi, K. Park and C. Kim, “Performance Impact of Interlayer Dependence in Infrastructure WLANs,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 7, Jul 2006.
  2. M. Lu, P. Steenkiste and T. Chen, “A Time-based Adaptive Retry Strategy for Video Streaming in 802.11 WLANs,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, Feb 2007.
  3. M. Li, M. Claypool and R. Kinicki, “Playout Buffer and Rate Optimization for Streaming over IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Vol. 5, No. 3, Aug 2009.
  4. W. Tan, F. Lam and W. Lau, “An Empirical Study on the Capacity and Performance of 3G Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 6, Jun 2008.
  5. X. Liu et al., “Experiences in a 3G Network: Interplay between the Wireless Channel and Applications,” Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2008.

Students:Marinos Argyrou, Maciej Baranski, Theodoros Koletsos, Greg Matthews,Gary Mcgilvary, Andrew Mcmanus, Louis Morgan, Andrea Sassanelli