Course Schedule and Notes

Week

Lecture Dates

Topics

Notes (restricted access)

Required Reading

(Choose one per lecture and two per week)

1

1/11, 1/13, 1/15

Course Introduction + Search Engines: An Introduction

+ Search Engines: The State of Art

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Only one reading assignment

[1.1 SE]: 1, 12, 9, 20

2

1/20, 1/22

Mobile Computing and Location aware Computing: Architectures and Research Challenges

Part 1

Part 2

[5.2 Mobile]: 13, 16, 19, 22,23,24

[5.5 GeoApp] 3,4,5,6,7,8,9

3

1/25, 1/27, 1/29

Mobile Computing Part III + Social Network and Web2.0

Part 1
Part 2

[4.3.3.LP] 1, 2,3,4,5

[6.Web2.0] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

4

2/1, 2/3, 2/5

Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Computing: Topology and Search

+ Distributed Hash Table Based Peer to Peer Systems

Part 1 + 2 + 3

[5.1 P2P]: 2, 5, 7, 8, 13

[5.1 P2P] 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25

5

2/08, 2/10, 2/12

Internet Computing: Example LBS and P2P Projects

+ Web Computinng: Fresh Information Delivery

Project Proposal Due Extended to Feb 15 (Monday) midnight

Part 1

Part 2

Only one reading assignment this week

[5.1 P2P]: 7, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

6

2/15, 2/17, 2/19

Web Servers, Web Clusters (incl. Web Proxies, Web Caching) + Application Servers: Concepts and Systems

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[2.1 WS] 1, 2, 18

[2.2 WP] 4,6,7, 21

[3.AppSerber:] 18, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34

7

2/22. 2/24, 2/26

Selected Project Proposal Presentation (Groups: 1, 8, 13, 15, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30)

Proposal Presentations

 [3 AS] 18, 21, 32

[2.2 WP] 8, 25, 28

8

3/1, 3/3, 3/5

GTMobiSimi + Usage Scenarios
Understanding Search Engines:

Part I Web Information Retrieval: Models and Methods

Part II Search in Social Networks and P2P Networks

Part 1
Part 2

[1.1 SE]: 1, 7, 11, 12, 15, 14, 16, 19, 28, 32, 36. 37, 39

[6. Social Networks]: 3,4,18,20,21,25,27

9

3/08, 3/10, 3/12

Spatial Indexing + Cloud Computing

Part 1

Part 2
Part 3

[7. Cloud]: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9

[5.6 Indexing]: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11

10

3/15, 3/17, 3/19

Data Privacy, Trust, Web Spams and Counter Measures

+ Internet Security and Secure Overlay Services

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[4.3.1 Privacy] 3, 7, 8, 9, 10]
[4.3.2 Trust] 1, 2, 4, 7, 8]
[4.4 WebSpam] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[4.3. Security] 10, 13, 15, 16

11

3/22 -- 3/26

Spring Break

12

3/29, 3/31, 4/2

Securing Publish and Subscribe Systems: Problems and Defenses

+ RFID + Sensor Systems
Web Performance: Metrics, Models & Method

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

[4.3 Security] 11, 12, 17

[5.3 sensor] 6,7,8

[5.4 RFID]1,2,3,4

13

4/5, 4/7, 4/9

CDN + IPTV

CS8803 Workshop day I (4/9) (3 presentations)

Part 1
Part 2

14

4/12, 4/14, 4/16

CS8803 Workshop Week I   (6~9 project presentations)

15

4/19, 4/21, 4/23

CS8803 Workshop week II (6~9 Presentations)

16

4/26, 4/28, 4/30

CS8803 Workshop Week III (6~9 project presentations)

Project Demo 4/29, 4/30, 5/3

Project Deliverable Due: 5/3 midnight (Hard Deadline)