CPSC 538a - Term 2 2003W (January - April)

This general theme of this course is Time-Sensitive Distributed Applications. The three main topics of the course will be the following:

• Multimedia distribution
• Sensor networks
• Network games

Time

10-11:30 Mondays and Wednesdays

Location

CISR 304

Instructor

Charles 'Buck' Krasic e-mail web

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Format

This course will follow a research seminar format, where we review and discuss a selection of recent research papers from the topic areas described above.

We will be covering two papers per class. Every person in the class is responsible for reading all of the papers.

There will be an in-class presentation for each paper, followed by group discussion. Each student can expect to be assigned the lead role for one or more of the papers, depending on the total number of participants.

The person assigned lead role will:

1. Make an appointment to meet me sometime before your scheduled presentation.
   • You should bring a draft of your presentation.
   • We will review your slides, discuss any difficulties with the material, etc.
2. Do the short 15-20 minute slide presentation in class, summarizing the paper.
3. Lead the group discussion:
   • What were the main contributions of the work?
   • What were the advantages and disadvantages of the approach?
   • How does it compare to the other papers and related work?
   • What are potential avenues for further work and improvements?
4. Submit a web page (due 1 week after presentation) containing:
   • A short (one or two paragraph) summary of the paper
   • A summary of the group discussion (a couple of paragraphs, or bullet list is ok)
   • Optionally, additional references to other important papers on the subject not included in the class.
   • A copy of your slide presentation

Project

Students may choose from either:

• a programming project
• a mini-literature survey

Proposals are due by Feb. 23

Programming projects can be done by individuals or groups

Mini survey's should cover 5 papers on a topic related to the theme of this course.

Grading

Grades will be based on class participation, class presentations, and paper reports.

• Class presentations 40%
• Summaries 20%
• Project 30%
• Class participation 10%

Schedule

The first class (organizational meeting) will be on Wednesday, January 7, 2004

The set of papers, reading schedule, and student materials are here.