NSS [Summer 2025]

Networked Systems Seminar (NSS) [Summer 2025]

Networking independent systems allows for fulfilling a specific task in a coordinated fashion. The underlying message exchange needs to be specified correctly and in many cases needs to also provide non-functional aspects such as robustness, dependability and performance to a certain degree. This seminar will cover such topics in a conference-style setup.

Organization

• Audience: B.Sc. and M.Sc. students enrolled in one of the Faculty of Computer Science’s study programs
• Language of Instruction: English
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Bondorf

Learning goals: Students will learn to work with a either a technical or a scientific paper, understand its contents and its context, critically reflect on it, and the findings in a concise fashion.

Workflow:

• get one of the eight place via the faculty’s central allocation system, you will then be enrolled in this seminar’s Moodle course
• kick-off meeting
• first common meeting where each participant gives a very brief overview over the assigned paper (approx. two weeks after kickoff meeting)
• individual meetings with supervisor during the semester (at least one of which will be mandatory)
• deliverables at the end of the lecture period: survey (text document) and presentation (slides and / or poster)
• conference day (i.e., seminar presentation day, second common meeting) in the lecture-free period

Meeting Schedule

• 2025-04-10: 1st common meeting: Kickoff in MC1/30 at 2pm
• 2025-04-24: 2nd common meeting: Overview presentations in MC1/30 at 2pm
• Between 2025-05-22 and 2025-06-06:: Individual meeting
• 2025-07-20: Submission of final deliverables
• Between 2025-08-21 and 2025-08-29: 3rd common meeting: Presentation Day (one full day, TBD)

Topic: research papers by Philipp H. Kindt

• Smart2: Smart Charging for Smart Phones
• ExPerio — Exploiting periodicity for opportunistic energy-efficient data transmission
• Schedulability Analysis for Processors with Aging-Aware Autonomic Frequency Scaling
• Adaptive online power-management for Bluetooth Low Energy
• Griassdi: Mutually Assisted Slotless Neighbor Discovery
• Neighbor Discovery Latency in BLE-Like Protocols
• Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol
• Identifying the BLE Advertising Channel for Reliable Distance Estimation on Smartphones

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Grading Scheme There are two types of requirements for successfully concluding the seminar

• [binary] need to be fulfilled entirely
• [weight: XY%] indicates impact on the final grade

I) 1st Common Meeting: Kickoff

• [binary] Attendance during the entire meeting

II) 2nd Common Meeting: Overview Presentations

• [binary] Attendance during the entire meeting
• [binary] Give a meaningful overview presentation within the specified time

III) Individual Meeting

• [binary] Scheduling and attendance within given deadlines
• [binary] Selection of sufficient related work papers
• [weight: 20%] Justification of your related work paper selection

IV) Deliverables: Related Work Survey, Presentation Slides, Poster

• [binary] Hand in all documents (all their files) before the deadline
• [binary] Respect requirements (file type, size, format, etc.)
• [weight: 25%] Related work survey
• [information] Presentation slides and poster will be graded in conjunction with your presentation day performance, they will not be graded individually without being presented

V) 3rd Common Meeting: Presentation Day

• [binary] Attendance during the entire meeting
• [binary] Give your own presentations (not violating specified demands significantly!)
• [weight: 50%] Your own presentations and ability to discuss / answer questions
• [weight: 5%] Your active participation in discussions of other papers