The goal of this assignment is to gain experience deeply understanding a paper so that you can teach others about it. You will select and review a paper. The paper needs to come from a recent peer-reviewed conference relating to wireless networking. The paper needs to be approved by me. As a starting point, you can look at papers from one of the following conferences:
- MobiCom (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020)
- MobiSys (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020)
- SenSys (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020)
- WiSec (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020)
Make sure the paper you select is related to wireless networking. This assignment will be done with a partner. You and your partner will select one paper to review together.
Presentation
Presentations need to be 10 minutes long, with 2 minutes for questions, for a total of 12 minutes. The presentation should not only teach us about the paper but also provide details on what you liked and didn’t like about it. Remember, this is a review, not a paper summary. We want insights and not just information.
Here is a rough outline of how the presentation should flow:
Introduction (~3 minutes)
- Clearly introduce and motivate the problem the paper is addressing
Summary (~3 minutes)
- Describes the problem well enough for someone to understand
- Describes the proposed solution from the paper
- Presents results from the paper
Review (~4 minutes)
- Thoughtful strengths identified and discussed
- What was transformative about this research?
- What part of the research was most convincing?
- Thoughtful weaknesses identified and discussed
- Did the paper have any flaws?
- What could have been improved?
Questions (~2 minute)