Princeton University
Computer Science Department

Computer Science 598C
AdTop CS: Systems Support for Developing Regions

Vivek Pai

Spring 2009


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General Information

Course Summary

This seminar examines research issues for the developing world. Topics range from better server design, low-power systems approaches, exploiting wireless connectivity, latency tolerance, and intelligent applications. This seminar does not satisfy CS graduate competency requirements.

Administrative Information

Lectures: TTH 1100-1220, Room: 301

Professor: Vivek Pai - 322 CS Building - 258-2086 vivek@cs.princeton.edu

Graduate Coordinator: Melissa Lawson - 310 CS Building - 258-5387 mml@cs.princeton.edu


Conferences, Workshops, Courses

OSDI - 2008, 2006, 2004
SOSP
SigComm
MobiCom - 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
MobiSys - 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
HotNets - 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
HotOS
NSDR - 2008, 2007

Schedule

   February 2009    
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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3 - organizational meeting
5 - Sibren Isaacman - KioskNet
        Low-cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using Mechanical Backhaul,
        A. Seth, D. Kroeker, M. Zaharia, S. Guo, and S. Keshav
        Proc. MOBICOM 2006, September 2006.
10 - Anirudh Badam - HashCache
12 - Michael Golightly -
        Energy-Efficiency and Storage Flexibility in the Blue File System
        Edmund B. Nightingale and Jason Flinn
        OSDI 2004
17 - Sunghwan Ihm
        see mailing list
19 - Dan Ackroyd-Isales
        DTLSR: Delay Tolerant Routing for Developing Regions
        Authors: Michael Demmer (UC Berkeley) and Kevin Fall (Intel Research)
        NSDR 2007
24 - Muneeb Ali
        "WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks"
        R. Patra, S. Nedevschi, S. Surana, A. Sheth, L. Subramanian, and E. Brewer.
        USENIX NSDI, April 2007
26 - Thomas Mason
     March 2009     
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3 - Wonho Kim
        DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem.
        Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine and Arun Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
        SIGCOMM 2007
5 - David Shue
        Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive.
        Sonesh Surana, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Manuel Ramos, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Yahel Ben-David, Eric Brewer.
        NSDI 2008.
10 - group discussion
        Multistreamed Web Transport for Developing Regions
        Preethi Natarajan (University of Delaware); Paul D. Amer (University of Delaware); Randall Stewart (Cisco Systems)
        NSDR 2008.
12 - Wyatt Lloyd
        Practical Security for Rural Internet Kiosks
        Authors: Sumair Ur Rahman (University of Waterloo); Urs Hengartner (University of Waterloo); Usman Ismail (University of Waterloo); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo)
        NSDR 2008.
14 - Spring recess begins
22 - Spring recess ends
24 - Sunghwan Ihm
        Ditto - A System for Opportunistic Caching in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
        Fahad Dogar and Amar Phanishayee and Himabindu Pucha and Olatunji Ruwase and David Andersen
        In Proc. ACM Mobicom , Sep 2008
26 - Michael Golightly
        TierStore: A Distributed Storage System for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions
        Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, and Eric Brewer
        USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technlogies (FAST), February 2008
31 - David Shue
        RuralCafe: Web Search in the Rural Developing World.
        Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Jinyang Li.
        World Wide Web Conference (WWW)2009
     April 2009     
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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26 27 28 29 30
2 - Wyatt Lloyd
        The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions
7 - Wonho Kim
        A message oriented phone system for low cost connectivity
        R.J. Honicky, Omar Bakr, Michael Demmer, Eric Brewer.
        Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Atlanta, GA, November 2007
9 - Thomas Mason
        Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World
        Tapan S. Parikh and Edward D. Lazowska
14 - Muneeb Ali
        "Poor Man's Broadband: Peer-to-Peer Dialup Networking"
        SIGCOMM CCR, Oct 2007
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1290168.1290170
16 - cancelled
21 - Sibren Isaacman
        W. Thies, J. Prevost, T. Mahtab, G. T. Cuevas, S. Shakhshir, A. Artola, B. D. Vo, Y. Litvak, S. Chan, S. Henderson, M. Halsey, L. Levison, and S. Amarasinghe.
        Searching the world wide web in low-connectivity communities.
        Proc. of the 11th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2002.
22-24 NSDI
28 - Daniel Ackroyd-Isales
30 - Anirudh Badam
        Block-switched Networks: A New Paradigm for Wireless Transport
        Ming Li, Devesh Agrawal, Deepak Ganesan, and Arun Venkataramani
        To Appear in NSDI 2009
      May 2009      
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4 - Reading period begins