CPSC 601.08: Computer Systems Performance Evaluation

Professor Carey Williamson

Winter 2010

Paper Presentations

Each student in CPSC 601.08 must do an in-class presentation of a selected paper from the recent research literature. We will probably need 6 lectures for these, with 2 students on each day. These presentations will take place in late March and early April. The schedule is available now.

You should plan to make a presentation of 20-30 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 (or if) it relates to other material that we covered during the semester. You will also play the lead role in a brief (5-10 minute) question and answer discussion session following your presentation.

I will be evaluating each of you on the quality of your presentation (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 relate the material in understandable terms to your classmates, and your ability to identify and apply the performance evaluation methodologies that we have discussed during the semester.

Class participants are highly encouraged to ask questions and be involved in the discussions of the papers. Assuming a couple minutes for changeover time between speakers, we can easily complete 2 presentations in our 75-minute time slot each day.

Possible Topics and Papers

The list below contains a list of research topics and papers that are highly suitable for in-class presentation and discussion. The papers are organized by topic area. Where possible, papers are also classified as Analytical (A), Simulation (S), or Experimental (E), with either upper case or lower case letters.

Papers for presentations will be allocated on a First Come First Serve basis. If there is a paper here that really interests you, let me know. If there are other really good papers that you would like to see added here, then please let me know that as well.

BitTorrent File Sharing Systems BitTorrent Streaming Systems Game Theory Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing Systems Queueing Network Models Scheduling and Fairness Storage Systems Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Modeling Web Server Performance Wireless Network Traffic Measurements Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless Sensor Network Security Workload Characterization