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Technische Universität München

Master-Seminar in Summer Semester 2020: Edge Computing and Communication

Teachers: Vittorio Cozzolino, Bernhard Haefner

Mobile edge computing is a computing paradigm that aims to scale to the growth of inter-connected devices, stretching from IoT sensors to smart vehicles. It adopts the essential elements from cloud and mobile computing to achieve latency, energy, and security benefits.

There has been active research in recent years spanning across IoT, smart cities, mobile Augmented Reality, autonomous driving and edge ecosystems. In this seminar, we will study both the classic and latest research publications on edge computing, its past, present, and future. Besides technology analysis, we will also explore novel use-cases covering different scenarios.

Course Organization

IMPORTANT: Due to the recent event involving COVID-19, the seminar will be completely virtual. The information meeting on the 22nd of April will be held online through the BBB platform. We will inform all the partecipants about how to attend the virtual information meeting in the upcoming weeks.

IMPORTANT: Link to virtual meeting room -> https://bbb.in.tum.de/vit-akc-c4g

  • Information meeting (topic discussion) - 22.04.2020, 15:00 to 17:00 (VIRTUAL)
  • Topic selection deadline - 11.05.2020
  • Feedback round (1-to-1) - 02.06.2020, Based on Doodle poll
  • Paper presentation - 29.06.2020,15:00 to 17:00 (VIRTUAL)
  • Submission deadline - 13.07.2020

Important information and grading procedure

  • This seminar is for students in the Informatics Master program (module IN2107)
    • The seminar will be conducted in English language
    • Prerequisites are a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
  • Students are expected to write a paper and give a presentation about the given topic area
    • Just summarizing related work is only the foundation of your paper, you need to show an own contribution beyond the summarization of other work. This contribution can be a new classification scheme, assessment and/or comparison of existing work, coming up with some novel conceptual ideas, mock-up of a new user interface, sketching new application areas and/or similar contributions
    • Your paper can be very focused, concentrating on a (small) subset of the given area. You can for example first give an brief overview of the topic area and then dig deeper on a selected aspect
    • You need to search for suitable literature in addition to the stated references. Orient yourself to the given references or other research papers for structure/contents of your own paper. You need to cite the literature your work is based on and clearly indicate when you are adopting or paraphrasing other work
    • Each student will be exclusively graded on the quality of the write-up.
    • Each student will have to present their work in front of his/her peers. However, the presentation will not be graded.
  • Expected outcome
    • Each student will hand-in a 7-9 pages paper in English, and in this format: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template  (2017 ACM sigconf template)
    • You can either use the LaTex (recommended) or Word templates
    • State your name, affiliation and email address (as the only author), use your own keywords and include a short abstract
    • No postal address or telephone number, no permission block, copyright line or page numbering, no categories and subject descriptors or general terms
    • References and citations need to be in the correct format (but usage of a LaTex BIB file is optional)
    • Acknowledgments or appendix are optional and not expected
  • Information for presentation
  • The topics are either advised by Vittorio Cozzolino or Bernhard Häfner. Please send an Email to your advisor for support or an appointment

Registration

  • Registration is done using the Matching System of the department: http://www.in.tum.de/en/current-students/modules-and-courses/practical-courses-and-seminar-courses.html (you have to use this matching system to participate in the seminar!)
  • You can optionally send a short motivation statement why you want to participate in this seminar via email to bernhard.haefner[AT]bmw.de, cozzolin[AT]in.tum.de (after 13.03.2020 max. 150 words) (sending a motivation statement is optional, but may increase your chances of getting a place)
  • You can optionally also send a list of up to 3 preferred topics via email to bernhard.haefner[AT]bmw.de, cozzolin[AT]in.tum.de (after 13.03.2020) (sending a list of preferred topics is completely optional and we can not guarantee that you will get one of your preferences if you get a place in the seminar)

Topics

Edge Computing is a relatively new and versatile branch of Computer Science and draws deep from the domain of distributed system. We will focus on the following sub-topics:

  • Edge Frameworks, orchestration, and scheduling
  • Edge computing for IoT
  • Edge computing, Computer Vision and mobile AR
  • Vehicular edge computing - communication protocols and challenges
  • Security and privacy

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