Networking independent systems allows for fulfilling a specific task in a coordinated fashion. The underlying message exchange needs to be specified correctly and in many cases needs to also provide non-functional aspects such as robustness, dependability and performance to a certain degree. This seminar will cover such topics in a conference-style setup.
Students will learn to work with a networking standard as well as scientific literature about it. I.e., understand the contents and their context, critically reflect on it (with the help of a scientific literature research), and will learn to present their findings in a concise fashion.
- see the IEEE 802.1 Working Group’s webpage
- Understand a component of the standard from standard documents, be able to present it
- research the scientific literature about the component
- may address its modeling, evaluation, performance benchmarking, etc.
- technical papers about practical implementation are appreciated, too, yet not as stand alone subject of the research and neither as the only related work in the seminar
- (patents or overview articles are not of interest either)
- Audience: B.Sc. and M.Sc. students enrolled in one of the Faculty of Computer Science’s study programs
- Language of Instruction: English
- Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Bondorf, M.Sc. Wlad Pesotsky, TBA
- Course Credits: 3 CP
- Grading Scheme
- eCampus: link
- get one of the place via the faculty’s central allocation system, you will then be enrolled in this seminar’s Moodle course
- get a seminar topic to work on (understand, find and judge related work)
- kick-off meeting
- first common meetings where each participant gives a very brief overview over the assigned topic (without any aids)
- two weeks after kickoff: M.Sc. students
- three weeks after kickoff: B.Sc. students
- individual meetings with supervisor during the semester (at least one of which will be mandatory)
- deliverables at the end of the lecture period: survey (text document) and presentation (slides and / or poster)
- conference day (i.e., seminar presentation day, second common meeting) in the lecture-free period
- The slot for common meetings is Friday 12:15pm to 1:45pm, room MC 1/30
- 2026-02-01: faculty-central allocation starts (you cannot enroll directly with the DNet group!)
- 2026-03-24: Participants will be enrolled into the Moodle course (no self-enrollment here either!)
- 2026-04-13 to 2026-04-20: Topic Assignment in Moodle, FCFS!
- 2026-04-24: 1st common meeting: Kickoff
- 2026-04-24 to 2026-05-03: Book slot for individual meeting, FCFS!
- 2026-05-08: 2nd common meeting, pt. 1: Overview presentations of M.Sc. students
- 2026-05-15: 2nd common meeting, pt. 2: Overview presentations of B.Sc. students
- 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-05 (tentative): Individual in-person meetings
- 2026-07-26: Submission of final deliverables
- 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-04: 3rd common meeting: Conference Day (one full day, TBD)