This seminar will be mostly based on Internet protocol specifications and research papers. Each student will have to select a topic based on the given lectures/topics, understand the ins and outs of that particular topic, and present findings and lead the discussion for it. We encourage other students to actively participate in the post-presentation discussions.
Your presentation should include the following:
- Description of the work, including the problem statement (why it is crucial and what problems the paper/work tackles, what the design decisions are, and evaluations).
- Potential shortcomings, i.e., weaknesses of the work, e.g., are any assumptions too general? Can you identify any scenario where the solution does not work?
- Future work or extensions: identify more scenarios that you think could be useful for further evaluations and/or other domains or areas where it could be applied.
- Open questions that you think could be useful to know about, and that you want to discuss.
To make the presentation session lively, when you choose a topic, we will also select one student as an opponent for you.