Paper Presentations

Each student in CPSC 641 must do an in-class presentation of a selected paper from the current networking research literature. We will probably need 4-5 lectures for these, with 2 students on each day. These presentations will take place in mid-March.

You should plan to make a conference-style presentation of 20-25 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 it might relate to other material that we covered during the semester. You will also play the lead role in a 10-15 minute question-and-answer discussion session following your presentation.

You will be evaluated based on the quality of your presentation (e.g., 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 convey the material in understandable terms to your classmates, and your ability to relate the paper in the context of the many network performance issues that we have discussed during the semester.

Class participants are encouraged to ask questions and be involved in the discussions of the papers. We should be able to complete two presentations in our 75-minute time slot each day, with a couple minutes for changeover time between speakers.

Suggested Papers

Below is a list of suggested papers to present. You can also propose a paper of your own choosing, if you have found a highly relevant one from the recent literature.

Please get your choice to me no later than 4:00pm on Tuesday, March 1. Requests will be honoured on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please have an alternative choice in mind in case your desired paper has already been taken.

1. "Can You See Me Now? A Measurement Study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet" (ACM IMC 2021)
   H. Chang, M. Varvello, F. Hao, and S.Mukherjee
2. Akram "Measuring the Performance and Network Utilization of Popular Video Conferencing Applications" (ACM IMC 2021)
   K. MacMillan, T. Mangla, J. Saxon, and N. Feamster
3. "Toward Formally Verifying Congestion Control Behavior" (ACM SIGCOMM 2021)
   V. Arun, M. Arashloo, A. Saeed, M. Alizadeh, and H. Balakrishnan
4. "XLINK: QoE-Driven Multi-Path QUIC Transport in Large-Scale Video Services" (ACM SIGCOMM 2021)
   Z. Zheng, Y. Ma, Y. Liu, F. Yang, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, W. Shi, W. Chen, D. Li, Q. An, H. Hong, H. Liu, and M. Zhang
5. "A Nationwide Study on Cellular Reliability: Measurement, Analysis, and Enhancements" (ACM SIGCOMM 2021)
   Y. Li, H. Lin, Z. Li, Y. Liu, F. Qian, L. Gong, X. Xin, T. Xu
6. "Nudge: Stochastically Improving upon FCFS" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2021)
   I. Grosof, K. Yang, Z. Scully, and M. Harchol-Balter
7. "Where did my 256GB go? Large-scale Analysis of Mobile Storage Consumption" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2021)
   A. Bijlani, K. Ramachandran, R. Campbell
8. Xue Kai "A Measurement Study of Wechat Mini-Apps" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2021)
   Y. Zhang, B. Turkistani, A. Yang, C. Zuo, Z. Lin
9. "A Look Behind the Curtain: Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2021)
   I. Akbari, M. Salahuddin, L. Ven, N. Limam, R. Boutaba, B. Mathieu, S. Moteau, S. Tuffin
10. Amirhossein "The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic" (ACM IMC 2020)
    A. Feldmann, O. Gasser, F. Lichtblau, E. Pujol, I. Poese, C. Dietzel, D. Wagner, M. Wichtlhuber, J. Tapiador, and N. Vallina-Rodriguez
11. Niloofar "A Characterization of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on a Mobile Network Operator Traffic" (ACM IMC 2020)
    A. Lutu, D. Perino, M. Bagnulo, E. Frias-Martinez, and J. Khangosstar
12. "How the Internet Reacted to COVID-19: A Perspective from Facebook's Edge Network" (ACM IMC 2020)
    T. Bottger, G. Ibrahim, and B. Vallis
13. Navid "Timber: An SDN-Based Emulation Platform for Experimental Research on Video Streaming" (IEEE JSAC July 2020)
    A. Ahmad, A. Floris, and L. Atzori
14. "Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Inferring TCP Congestion Control Algorithms and Protocol Configurations" (TMA 2020)
    S. Gong, U. Naseer, and T. Benson
15. "The Great Internet TCP Congestion Control Census" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2020)
    A. Mishra, X. Sun, A. Jain, S. Pande, R. Joshi, and B. Leong
16. Sadaf "Characterizing Transnational Internet Performance and the Great Bottleneck of China" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2020)
    P. Zhu, K. Man, Z. Wang, Z. Qian, R. Ensafi, J. Halderman, and H. Duan
17. "HPCC: High Precision Congestion Control" (ACM SIGCOMM 2019)
    Y. Li, R. Miao, H. Liu, Y. Zhuang, F. Feng, L. Tang, Z, Cao, M. Zhang, F. Kelly, M. Alizadeh, M. Yu
18. Amir "Zooming in on Wide-area Latencies to a Global Cloud Provider" (ACM SIGCOMM 2019)
    Y. Jin, S. Renganathan, G. Ananthanarayanan, J. Jiang, V. Padmanabhan, M. Schroder, M. Calder, A. Krishnamurthy
19. "Information Exposure from Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach" (ACM IMC 2019)
    J. Ren, D. Dubois, D. Choffnes, A. Mandalari, R. Kolcun, and H. Haddadi
20. "What-If Analysis of Page Load Time in Web Browsers Using Causal Profiling" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2019)
    B. Pourghassemi, A. Sani, A. Chandramowlishwaran
21. Michael "Understanding the Networking Performance of Wear OS" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2019)
    X. Zhu, Y. Guo, A. Nikravesh, F. Qian, Z.Mao
22. "Load Balancing Guardrails: Keeping Your Heavy Traffic on the Road to Low Response Times" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2019)
    I. Grosof, Z. Scully, M. Harchol-Balter
23. "An Analysis of Performance Evolution of Linux's Core Operations" (ACM SOSP 2019)
    X. Ren, K. Rodrigues, L. Chen, C. Vega, M. Stumm, D. Yuan
24. "Coming of Age: A Longitudinal Study of TLS Deployment" (ACM IMC 2018)
    P. Kotzias, A. Razaghpanah, J. Amann, K. Paterson, N. Vallina-Rodriguez, J. Caballero
25. "Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
    A. Dhamdhere, D. Clark, A. Gamero-Garrido, M. Luckie, R. Mok, G. Akiwate, K. Gogia, V. Bajpai, A. Snoeren, kc claffy
26. "B4 and After: Managing Hierarchy, Partitioning, and Asymmetry in Google's Software-Defined WAN" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
    C-Y. Hong, S. Mandal, M. Al-Fares, M. Zhu, R. Alimi, K. Naidu, C. Bhagat, S. Jain, J. Kaimal, S. Liang, K. Mendelev, S. Padgett, F. Rabe, S. Ray, M. Tewari, M. Tierney, M. Zahn, J. Zolla, J. Ong, A. Vahdat
27. "A Measurement Study on Multi-path TCP with Multiple Cellular Carriers on High-speed Rails" (ACM SIGCOMM 2018)
    L. Li, K. Xu, T. Li, K. Zheng, C. Peng, D. Wang, X. Wang, M. Shen, R. Mijumbi
28. "Supporting Mobile VR in LTE Networks: How Close Are We?" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
    Z. Tan, Y. Li, Q. Li, Z. Zhang, Z. Li, S. Lu
29. "Practical Bounds on Optimal Caching with Variable Object Sizes" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
    D. Berger, N. Beckmann, M. Harchol-Balter
30. "SOAP: One Clean Analysis of All Age-Based Scheduling Policies" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2018)
    Z. Scully, M. Harchol-Balter, A. Scheller-Wolf
31. Quinn "On Ride Sharing Competition and Accessibility: Evidence from Uber, Lyft, and Taxi" (WWW 2018)
    S. Jiang, L. Chen, A. Mislove, and C. Wilson
32. "Re-architecting Datacenter Networks and Stacks for Low Latency and High Performance" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
    M. Handley, C. Raiciu, A. Agache, A. Voinescu, A. Moore, G. Antichi, and M. Wojcik
33. "The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
    A. Langley, A. Riddoch, A. Wilk, A. Vicente, C. Krasic, D. Zhang, F. Yang, F. Kouranov, I. Swett, J. Iyengar, J. Bailey, J. Dorfman, J. Roskind, J. Kulik, P. Westin, R. Tenneti, R. Shade, R. Hamilton, V. Vasiliev, W. Chang, and Z. Shi
34. "Wi-Fi Goes to Town: Rapid Picocell Switching for Wireless Transit Networks" (ACM SIGCOMM 2017)
    Z. Song, L. Shangguan, and K. Jamieson
35. Soroosh "TCP Congestion Signatures" (ACM IMC 2017)
    S. Sundaresan, A. Dhamdhere, M. Allman, k claffy
36. "Investigation of the 2016 Linux TCP Stack Vulnerability at Scale" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2017)
    A. Quach, Z. Wang, and Z. Qian
37. "Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity" (ACM SIGMETRICS 2017)
    S. Venkatakrishnan, G. Fanti, and P. Viswanath