The course registration for the Internet Routing Seminar is over and a good amount of students have registered for the course. The next step consists of assigning papers to students according to their choices. However, based on their choices I have created a small, non-representative paper popularity.

Paper Popularity

For the course registration, students have to pick five out of 23 papers and assign priorities to them (priority 1, …, 5). So every student has five distinct choices for possible topics. Based on these choices, I created a paper popularity rating by simply weighting the choices by their priority (amount of choices for a particular paper in priority 1 is weighted with a higher score than the same paper appearing in priority 5). I used the following weights: priority w_1=5, w_2=4, w_3=3, w_4=2, w_5=1. The weight is then computed by s = \sum_i=1^5 {a_i * w_i}, where a_i is the amount of votes per priority for a paper and w_i is the weight (see the last sentence). Following this procedure, I end up with the following paper priorities, where s indicates the score:

1. s=23 BGP routing policies in ISP networks
2. s=17 Building an AS-topology model that captures route diversity
3. s=15 A Light-Weight Distributed Scheme for Detecting IP Prefix Hijacks in Real-Time
4. s=14 An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
5. s=13 BubbleStorm: Resilient, Probabilistic, and Exhaustive Peer-to-Peer Search
6. s=12 OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks
7. s=12 APT: A Practical Tunneling Architecture for Routing Scalability
8. s=10 Ant colonies for Adaptive Routing in Packet-switched Communications Networks
9. s=10 Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks
10. s=9 Avoiding transient Loops during IGP Convergence in IP Networks
11. s=9 Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
12. s=8 In VINI Veritas: Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation
13. s=7 Interdomain traffic engineering with BGP
14. s=4 A Measurement-based Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP Performance
15. s=3 Designing Extensible IP Router Software
16. s=3 HLP: A Next-generation Interdomain Routing Protocol
17. s=2 On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet Networks
18. s=1 Unified Energy-Efficient Routing for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
19. s=1 Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing

19 papers have been selected by students, 4 have not been considered. Thus, 82 % of the pre-selected topics have been taken into account.

The new term starts at TU Berlin and our group offers an advanced seminar dealing with Internet routing (see details here). Today was the preparatory meeting where I introduced the basic concepts of this seminar and its topics. Slides covering all the details can be found here.

In contrast to previous seminars, I agreed to introduce a new feature; students can suggest papers as we do not want to stop them from working on interesting topics, if they can’t agree on the papers collected and suggested by us. I wonder how many students will take advantage of this, or it might turns out to be too much unessessary overhead (although I prepared a list of relevant conferences and linked their programs, students will have to investigate some amount of time in looking through them, which will of course not result in any grading benefit).