CSE 824: Advanced Computer Networking and Communications (Fall 2012)

 

 

Course Schedule | Reading List | Project | Homework

 

Course Information

Class:  Tu, Th: 3:00pm-4:20pm, 1257 Anthony Hall

Instructor: Guoliang Xing, 

Email: glxing AT msu.edu (all emails concerning this course should have a subject “CSE824….”) 

Office: 3224 Engineering Building

Office hours:  Thur 1pm-2pm or by appointment

 

Use mailing list msu-cse824@ googlegroups.com to post questions/comments of the course, and look for group collaboration.

 

Textbook: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, by Kurose and Ross, 5th ed. Addison Wesley.

 

Reading list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grading

 

  1. Class Participation (5%)
  2. Paper Presentation (10%)
  3. Exam (20%)
  4. Homework and Paper Summaries (20%)
  5. Project (45%)

 

Class Participation: All students are expected to attend every class and actively engage in the discussion. The grade on Class Participation will be given based on the attendance and engagement.

 

Homework: Homework assignments include handout questions and paper reading summaries. Students will write a reading summary for each required paper on the reading list. A reading summary should be no less than 400 words and contain the following:

  1. Discussing briefly the main contribution of the paper;
  2. Identifying open research problems, holes/limitations of the paper;
  3. Discussing whether the assumptions/models used in the paper are reasonable and realistic. Are there any problems in implementation and experimentation? Are the claims supported by the experimental results?
  4. Discussing any ways that may improve the solutions described in the paper.  

 

Final Project: Students will work as groups for course projects. The project takes 45% of the final grade of the course. Students will have chance to use real smpartphones and wireless sensor hardware platforms in their projects. More details are on the Project link.

Paper Presentation:

  1. Each student will pick one or two papers to present at class. See "Course Schedule" for the schedule of presentations.
  2. Each presentation lasts for 50 minutes plus 20 minutes for question answering. The presentation should not only cover the in-depth discussion of the paper, but also all necessary background and related work for the class to fully understand the technical approach described in the paper.
  3. In addition to answering any questions raised by the class, the presenter will be asked questions by challengers (assigned by instructor). A challenger should ask critical questions about the paper and his/her performance will be counted in the ‘class participation’.
  4. The evaluation criteria of presentation include clarity, organization, technical content, and question answering. Each student (excluding the presenter) will score the presentation, and the average of all scores will be the score of the presentation. The scoring sheet is here. The instructor will score the presentation accordingly.

Exam: A take-home exam will be given. It covers both lectures and the papers in reading list.