This page describes the paper review assignment for
Computer Networks.
For your paper review you are to find two papers - one of which improves or
builds upon the other - and review them. The purpose of this paper review is
for the student to become aware of the key conferences in the networking area
and to see how research moves forward by building and/or improving upon
previous work. This assignment is to be completed individually with help
only to be given by the instructor (that is,students may not "work
together").
Requirements
At least one of the papers should preferrably come from ICC, GLOBECOM,
INFOCOM, NSDI, ICCCN, LCN, or SIGCOMM
Summarize each paper in about 250 words (using figures may also be
appropriate). Your summary should cover:
What is the key research question being asked?
How is the question being answered?
What are the key findings and/or results in the paper?
What open questions and/or future work is described?
For the second paper (the "improves upon" paper), what is the improvement,
how is it shown, and how much improved is the new method?
Properly, in IEEE style, cite each paper reviewed.
Deliverables
Each student will deliver the following:
A maximum two-page paper written in IEEE conference paper format and
style. The final paper must be submitted as a PDF file.
The Word template for IEEE Computer Society conference papers is
here.
Identification and description of method used -- 20%
Identification of future work -- 10%
Understanding of improvement (method, evaluation, and result) -- 30%
Organization (including word count), clarity, and grammar -- 20%
Notes, advice, and hints
Some notes, advice, and hints...
Pay very careful attention to how you quote material from a paper and write
your summary material - you do not want to plagiarize! As a reminder, the ACM
definition of plagiarism is
here.
