Project

Project slides from lecture (pdf)

Project submission deadlines

Topic and contact person: Sept 27, Thursday
List of papers, with one-one sentence motivation: Oct 1, Monday
Outline, max one page, paper structure, content of sections: Oct 4, Thursday
Final report, max 5 pages: Oct 9, Tuesday
Presentation day: Oct 11, Thursday

How does the project work?

You have to work in groups – three or four students per group. The groups are defined by the instructor.
Select subject from the list or any subject you like. I would like to know which subject you have selected. If you suggest your own subject, you have to get my agreement.
You will have to overview 3-4 papers. The papers should discuss/use mathematical models for performance evaluations. Send me the paper references (authors, title, where it was published) once you have them.
You have to prepare a written report of ca. 5 pages, comparing the selected papers (not just discussing them one after the other!). Send me the outline of the report before you write a detailed version.
Each project will be presented on the scheduled exam in a talk of about 20 minutes.

Which sources to look at?

The following journals and conferences are good sources of high quality papers. Check some papers form the last years, read the related work chapters and look for often referenced early publications. Often they are the ones with basic results in an area.

You can find the full papers through www.lib.kth.se, if you are in the campus.

IEEE Communication Magazine – publishes mainly overview papers
IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICC – the major networking conference
IEEE Transaction on Networking – heavy research results, often hard to read…..
ACM Sigcomm – very selective networking conference, basic Internet research, the mathematical models are usually possible to follow.

Submission intructions:

Topic: please submit the topic you have selected as follows:

subject: EP2210 topic {group #}
in the body: motivation why the sopic was selected. Also, please give the contact person from the group. I will answer to him/her.

List of papers: please submit the list of selected papers as follows:

subject: EP2210 list of papers {group #}
in the body: please write simple text, no attachments. For each selected paper: give the exact reference and a max 10 lines motivation on why the paper was selected.
how to give full reference: list of authors, title of the paper, place and year of publication. For example: L. Massoulie, J. Roberts, “Bandwidth sharing: objectives and algorithms,” IEEE Infocom 2000.
Note, do not send me the papers themselves, I can find them on the web.

Outline: please submit the outline of your report as follows:

subject: EP2210 outline {group #}
in the body: please write simple text, no attachments. Follow the structure of scientific papers. Compulsory parts are Abstract, Introduction and Conclusion. Between Introduction and Conclusion structure the paper according to your needs. For each section write max 10 lines or a couple of bullets on what the section will contain.

Final report: please submit your report as follows:

subject: EP2210 final report {group #}
attached: the paper, in pdf format, if possible. Follow the structure of scientific papers. Compulsory parts are Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion, References. Between Introduction and Conclusion structure the paper according to your needs. The paper can not be longer than 5 pages.

Presentation:

Thursday Okt 11, E35

20 minutes presentation per group. All group members should be there. Make sure that your presentation is not longer than 20 minutes.

Two time-slots of ca. 2 hours. You have to be present in the entire time-slot where your group gives the presentation.