Paper Presentations

Each student in CPSC 641 must do an in-class presentation of a selected paper from the current networking research literature. We will probably need 5-6 lectures for these, with 2 students on each day. These presentations will take place in mid-to-late March.

You should plan to make a conference-style presentation of 20-25 minutes time duration, highlighting the topic, methodology, results, and contributions of the paper, using about 15 slides (PowerPoint or equivalent). You do not need to present the entire contents of the paper; rather it suffices to "hit the highlights" to give the rest of the class a good feel for what the paper is about, and how it might relate to other material that we covered during the semester. You will also play the lead role in a 10-15 minute question-and-answer discussion session following your presentation.

You will be evaluated based on the quality of your presentation (e.g., slides, organization, pace, content, insights), your competence with the subject matter presented, and your question-answering capability. Particular things that I will be looking for are your ability to extract the main points from the paper, your ability to convey the material in understandable terms to your classmates, and your ability to relate the paper in the context of the many network performance issues that we have discussed during the semester.

Class participants are encouraged to ask questions and be involved in the discussions of the papers. We should be able to complete 2 presentations in our 75-minute time slot each day, with a couple minutes for changeover time between speakers.

Suggested Papers

Below is an initial list of suggested papers to choose from. More might be added here as the semester progresses. You can also propose a paper of your own choosing, if you have found a highly relevant one from the recent literature.

Please get your choice to me no later than 4:00pm on Tuesday, February 26. Requests will be honoured on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please have an alternative choice in mind in case your desired paper has already been taken.

1. "Coming of Age: A Longitudinal Study of TLS Deployment" (ACM IMC 2018)
   P. Kotzias, A. Razaghpanah, J. Amann, K. Paterson, N. Vallina-Rodriguez, J. Caballero
2. Mehdi "Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
   A. Dhamdhere, D. Clark, A. Gamero-Garrido, M. Luckie, R. Mok, G. Akiwate, K. Gogia, V. Bajpai, A. Snoeren, kc claffy
3. "B4 and After: Managing Hierarchy, Partitioning, and Asymmetry in Google's Software-Defined WAN" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
   C-Y. Hong, S. Mandal, M. Al-Fares, M. Zhu, R. Alimi, K. Naidu, C. Bhagat, S. Jain, J. Kaimal, S. Liang, K. Mendelev, S. Padgett, F. Rabe, S. Ray, M. Tewari, M. Tierney, M. Zahn, J. Zolla, J. Ong, A. Vahdat
4. Yang "A Measurement Study on Multi-path TCP with Multiple Cellular Carriers on High-speed Rails" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
   L. Li, K. Xu, T. Li, K. Zheng, C. Peng, D. Wang, X. Wang, M. Shen, R. Mijumbi
5. "Supporting Mobile VR in LTE Networks: How Close Are We?" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
   Z. Tan, Y. Li, Q. Li, Z. Zhang, Z. Li, S. Lu
6. "Practical Bounds on Optimal Caching with Variable Object Sizes" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
   D. Berger, N. Beckmann, M. Harchol-Balter
7. Craig "SOAP: One Clean Analysis of All Age-Based Scheduling Policies" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
   Z. Scully, M. Harchol-Balter, A. Scheller-Wolf
8. "Re-architecting Datacenter Networks and Stacks for Low Latency and High Performance" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
   M. Handley, C. Raiciu, A. Agache, A. Voinescu, A. Moore, G. Antichi, and M. Wojcik
9. "The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
   A. Langley, A. Riddoch, A. Wilk, A. Vicente, C. Krasic, D. Zhang, F. Yang, F. Kouranov, I. Swett, J. Iyengar, J. Bailey, J. Dorfman, J. Roskind, J. Kulik, P. Westin, R. Tenneti, R. Shade, R. Hamilton, V. Vasiliev, W. Chang, and Z. Shi
10. "Wi-Fi Goes to Town: Rapid Picocell Switching for Wireless Transit Networks" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
    Z. Song, L. Shangguan, and K. Jamieson
11. Mehdi "TCP Congestion Signatures" (ACM IMC 2017)
    S. Sundaresan, A. Dhamdhere, M. Allman, k claffy
12. Mark "Investigation of the 2016 Linux TCP Stack Vulnerability at Scale" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2017)
    A. Quach, Z. Wang, and Z. Qian
13. "Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2017)
    S. Venkatakrishnan, G. Fanti, and P. Viswanath
14. "Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks" (ACM SIGCOMM 2016)
    D. Vasisht, S. Kumar, H. Rahul, and D. Katabi
15. "Beyond Counting: New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space" (ACM IMC 2016)
    P. Richter, G. Smaragdakis, D. Plonka, and A. Berger
16. "An Empirical Analysis of a Large-scale Mobile Cloud Storage Service" (ACM IMC 2016)
    Z. Li, X. Wang, N. Huang, M. Kaafar, Z. Li, J. Zhou, G. Xie, and P. Steenkiste
17. "Reducing Latency Through Page-aware Management of Web Objects by Content Delivery Networks" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2016)
    S. Narayanan, Y. Nam, A. Sivakumar, B. Chandrasekaran, B. Maggs, and S. Rao
18. "Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2016)
    M. Gabielkov, A. Ramachandran, A. Legout, and A. Chaintreau
19. "Understanding Mobile Traffic Patterns of Large Scale Cellular Towers in Urban Environment" (ACM IMC 2015)
    H. Wang, F. Xu, Y. Li, P. Zhang, and D. Jin
20. "Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM... An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security" (ACM IMC 2015)
    Z. Durumeric, D. Adrian, A. Mirian, J. Kasten, E. Bursztein, N. Lidzborski, K. Thomas, V. Eranti, M. Bailey, and A. Halderman
21. Steffen "Peeking Beneath the Hood of Uber" (ACM IMC 2015)
    L. Chen, A. Mislove, and C. Wilson
22. "WiFi, LTE, or Both? Measuring Multi-homed Wireless Internet Performance" (ACM IMC 2014)
    S. Deng, R. Netravali, A. Sivaraman, and H. Balakrishnan