Organisation

News:

The Presentation Day is on Monday, July 8
in our seminar room (36-438)

Contact:

 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Schmitt
 B.Sc. Alexander Scheffler
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Important Dates

Kick-off Meeting: April 29, 5:15pm
Registration: Until May 2, 10 am
Mock-up (see introduction slides): Until May, 9
First version of visualization/implementation/evaluation: Until May, 27
First version of report and presentation: Until June, 17
Review: Until June, 24
Final versions: Until July, 1
Presentation Day: July, 8

Presentation Day

Each seminar participant will give a talk which should be 30 +/- 5 minutes.

The presentations will be held in our seminar room (36-438) starting from 8:15am. The tentative schedule for the presentation day is as follows:

ID Student Title
08:15-10:30: Session 1 (Performance)
P1 Anja Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones
P5 Jephte Model transformations of MapReduce Design Patterns for automatic development and verification
P4 Bruno Automated Parallelization of Timed Petri-Net Simulations
10:45-12:15: Session 2 
P2 Axel Computable Bounds in Fork-Join Queueing Systems
S1 Jean-Francois A new design paradigm for ultra-low power communication
12:55-15:10: Session 3 (Security)
S4 Michele A Survey on Recent Advances in Vehicular Network Security, Trust, and Privacy
S2 Ken Truly Distributed Distributed-MIMO
S3 Meris Investigation of Multi-device Location Spoofing Attacks on Air Traffic Control and Possible Countermeasures

Content

 The DISCO team offers a seminar with focus on performance and security aspects of communication networks this summer.  

Introduction Slides

 Here is the list of papers for this year's seminar. Note that this list is tentative and may be subject to changes:

ID Author(s) and Title Student Supervisor Paper Report Presentation
Performance
P1 Ananthanarayanan: Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones  Anja  Paul PDF PDF PDF
P2 Rizk: Computable Bounds in Fork-Join Queueing Systems  Axel  Paul PDF PDF PDF
P4 Nicol: Automated Parallelization of Timed Petri-Net Simulations  Bruno  Alexander PDF PDF PDF
P5 Amato: Model transformations of MapReduce Design Patterns for automatic development and verification  Jephte  Alexander PDF PDF PDF
Security
S1 Rostami: Polymorphic radios: A new design paradigm for ultra-low power communication  Jean-Francois  Carolina PDF PDF PDF
S2 Hamed: Chorus: Truly Distributed Distributed-MIMO  Ken  Carolina PDF PDF PDF
S3 Moser: Investigation of Multi-device Location Spoofing Attacks on Air Traffic Control and Possible Countermeasures  Meris  Matthias PDF PDF PDF
S4 Lu: A Survey on Recent Advances in Vehicular Network Security, Trust, and Privacy  Michele  Matthias PDF PDF PDF

 

 

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