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The goal of the Doctoral Seminar is to familiarize doctoral students with tools and enable them to practice skills they need towards their Ph.D. dissertation and for research. This includes - getting to know good sources of literature, understanding and critical assessment of the literature, presenting technical material both tutorial in nature and with a narrower scope of research, selecting topics of interest and doing original technical work on it, and developing the ability to see the relationships between seemingly disconnected pieces of work. We accomplish this in this doctoral seminar through detailed review of a set of papers representative of the state of the art in robust and secure wireless networks. We will scan papers spanning a spectrum of issues related to this topic to familiarize the doctoral student with interesting research issues in the area.
Robust and Secure Wireless Networks
- Ad hoc, sensor, and hybrid networks will be considered
Students will present assigned/selected papers. Usually there will be one to two presentations per class. The presentation should be structured to fit into a 40 minute time slot. Each student will write a critical review of the paper they present, discussing it's contribution, limitations and possible extensions.