CSE 294: Systems and Networking Seminar (Winter/Spring 2006)

Fridays 1:00pm - 2:00pm
EBU3B 4140

[System and Networking Conference Calendar]

CSE 294 has traditionally been the weekly systems and networking reading seminar. This time 'round, we're doing something very different. We'll combine the normal readings with practice serving on a real program committee for ACM SIGCOMM 2006. That's right, you'll get to review actual submissions to this year's SIGCOMM conference and, in the spring term, we'll hold our own PC meeting and decide their fate! (Well, the actual SIGCOMM PC will decide their fate for the real conference, but we'll see how our decisions stack up against the real one.) We hope this is a valuable experience for graduate students regardless of area, so please consider participating even if networking isn't your core focus.

Since the submissions won't be available until mid-February, we'll start the semester by reading several papers of interest from recent conferences. In addition to the normal presentations, we'll discuss why we think the PC accepted them, and whether, in retrospect, it was a good idea. We'll also read some papers that had a hard time getting published, and discuss why that might have been as well. Once the submissions come in, we'll assign reviews and start the PC process. Note that this process will spill over into the Spring quarter, so you'll need to participate for both quarters.

There is a systems and networking mailing list sysnet@cs that interested students, faculty, and staff at UCSD are welcome to join. In addition to CSE 294 information, it is also a forum for posting conference, job, and other related announcements, as well as for topical discussions. If you would like to be added to the list, simply send mail to majordomo@cs with the following in the body: "subscribe sysnet your-email-address".

Previous CSE294 schedules: Fall 2001, Winter 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Winter 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005 Fall 2005

Date
Paper
Speaker
1/13 Organizational meeting Alex C. Snoeren
1/20 Mondrix: Memory Isolaiton for Linux using Mondriaan Memory Protection , SOSP '05 Michael Vrable
1/27 BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services, SOSP 05. Xianan Zhang
2/3 Hibernator: Helping Disk Arrays Sleep Through the Winter , SOSP '05. John Fisher-Ogden
2/10 No class. (SIGCOMM deadline)  
2/17 THINC: A Virtual Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing, SOSP '05 Chris Fliezach
2/24 Conference Review System Alex C. Snoeren
3/3 The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer Panel
3/10 Peer reviewing Everyone
3/17 No class. (Visit day)
4/7 Organizational Meeting Alex C. Snoeren
4/14 No class. (Finish reviewing)
4/21 Mock PC Meeting Everyone
4/28 No class. (CSE Faculty Retreat)
5/5 Mock PC Meeting (cont.) Everyone
5/12 Post-mortem discussion Alex C. Snoeren
5/19 The Dark Oracle: Perspective-Aware Unused and Unreachable Address Discovery, NSDI '06 Bhavjit Walha
5/26 TBA Trevor Pering, Intel
6/2 OASIS: Anycast for Any Service, NSDI '06 Patrick Verkaik
6/9 PCP: Efficient Endpoint Congestion Control, NSDI '06 Barath Raghavan

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