Advanced Networked Systems Reading Group (ants)

Format and schedule

The ants reading group meets each Thursday at 5:00pm in AKW 400. A participant will lead the discussion of one paper (and related papers) of his/her choice. To participate in the reading group, please subscribe to the mailing list: ants@cs.yale.edu. It is recommended that you read the papers ahead of time. We will try to announce the paper well ahead of time.

Fall 2002 Schedule

Date Presenter Topic Paper Slides
10/03/02 Zhengming Fu Wireless Transport

TCP/IP Performance over 3G Wireless Links with Rate and Delay Variation by Mun Choon Chan, Ramachandran Ramjee. In Mobicom 2002. [ref1, ref2]

ppt, pdf
10/10/02 Haiyong Xie Sensor Networks

Impact of Network Density on Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, and John Heidemann. In ICDCS-22. [ref1, ref2]

ppt, pdf
10/17/02 Zheng Ma Overlay Networks

Scalable Application Layer Multicast by Suman Banerjee, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Christopher Kommareddy. In SIGCOMM 2002.

ppt, pdf
10/24/02 Richard Yang Selfish Routing

How Bad is Selfish Routing? by T. Roughgarden and É. Tardos. In Journal of the ACM, 49(2):236--259, March 2002.

ppt, pdf
10/31/02 Tim Shih Peer-to-peer
 Database

An Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Network for Distributed Caching ofOLAP Results, by Panos Kalnis, Wee Siong Ng, Beng Chin ool, Dimitris Papadias, and Kian-Lee Tan. In SIGMOD 2002.

ppt, pdf
11/07/02 Kevin Hofstra Hybrid Network Architecture

Performance Comparison of Cellular and Multi-hop Wireless Networks: A Quantitative Study, by Hung-Yun Hsieh and Raghupathy Sivakumar of The GNAN Research Group. In SIGMETRICS 2001.

ppt, pdf
11/14/02 Francis Browne Misbehaving Network Nodes

Detecting Disruptive Routers: A Detecting Disruptive Routers: A Distributed Network Monitoring Network Monitoring Approach, by Kirk Bradley, Steven Chung, Nick Kirk Bradley, Steven Chung, Nick Puketza, Biswanth Biswanth Mukherjee Mukherjee and Ronald and Ronald Olsson. In IEEE Security and Privacy 1998.

ppt, pdf
11/21/02 Henry Lien Mobile-Agent Security

Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting  Mobile Agents from Malicious Hosts, by Fritz Hohl. In Mobile Agents and Security, ed. G. Vigna, 1998.

ppt, pdf

Aim

The objective of the group is to read and discuss some of the newest papers from major conferences related with operating systems and computer networks.

Topics

The focus of the reading group will be computer networks, operating systems, and security. The focus of Fall 2002 will be four conferences (you can of course choose papers from other conferences):

A list of related conferences

Current topics

ants mailing list


Last update: 01/09/2003