Lecture Monday & Wednesday, 5:00–6:20 PM
Room A116
Instructor Jihoon Ryoo — Jihoon.ryoo@sunykorea.ac.kr
Office 3031 Multiplex Bldg.
Office Hours Mon/Wed 10:00–11:00 AM, or by appointment
Final Exam None — no written final exam
Final Demo Session 7th December 2026
Zoom Link https://bit.ly/4gWyoJH
About this course. CSE 570 covers current research in wireless and mobile networking — 802.11 and cellular evolution, mmWave and massive MIMO, wireless sensing, localization and positioning, LPWAN and backscatter, LEO satellite networks, mobile edge computing, and the machine learning now embedded in all of them. It is a research seminar rather than a lecture course: the material arrives as papers, and you are the one presenting it.
Every student presents three times. Three papers each, roughly thirty minutes per paper including the discussion you lead. If you have read the paper you will have a question. No exam, no handout homework.
Instead: three paper presentations, three one-page written analyses, and a team project.
A team project running Sep 30 – Dec 9, in teams of two or three.
Research skill is assessed by what you produce, not by an exam. There is no exam of any kind — December 7 is used for the final poster session, in the slot the university assigns to this course.
Venues: MobiCom · MobiSys · SenSys · SIGCOMM · NSDI · IPSN · IMWUT/UbiComp · HotMobile · INFOCOM — weighted toward the last five years
Prerequisites: graduate standing, or instructor permission for advanced undergraduates. A prior networking course (CSE 310 or equivalent) is assumed — layering, TCP, routing, and 802.11 basics are not taught here. Comfort with Python, and the willingness to read a paper you do not fully understand and come to class anyway.
Paper Sessions
Role What it means
Presenter A 20-minute talk — the problem, the key idea, the method, the evaluation — then 10 minutes of discussion you lead.
Written analysis One page, submitted before the session: the contribution in one paragraph, the strongest claim and whether the evaluation supports it, the weakest assumption, and one experiment you would have run.
Everyone else Read the paper before class and bring a question.
Reading list. Posted on Google Docs at least a week before each session.
Rules of the Games
1. We will use Google classroom as a question and answer platform this semester. That said, I will be doing as little as possible with it, so students will have to fill the void. The Google classroom link is given above.
2. The best way to learn the material is by reading research papers. You are encouraged to work in a group, for the best way to understand the subject of the research topics are to argue about the topics. Each of you should look at all the papers independently, and not just divide the list into two parts each time. Don't be a leech and let your partner do all the work.
3. The partner system relies upon a certain maturity among the students. If you don't have a partner, tell me and I will hook you up with one. If you are having trouble with your partner and want a divorce, tell me and I will set you up with a new one. I will act as a broker but not as a counselor. I do not want to hear what a louse your old partner is, and you will get a dirty look from me when you demand a divorce regardless of who was at fault. Your solution to the assignment must be turned in individually. Unless announced otherwise in class, any solution to a part of assignments that takes more than one side of a sheet of paper will not be graded. This is to save you the ordeal of trying to impress with volume instead of quality.
4. Even if you discuss them with your classmates, you should turn in your own code and write-up. Do not share your code! The late submission will be a 10% penalty per day.
5. If you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability that may impact your course work, please contact the Disability Support Services office. They will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation of disability are confidential. Students who require assistance during emergency evacuation are encouraged to discuss their needs with me.
6. Each student must pursue his or her academic goals honestly and be personally accountable for all submitted work. Representing another person's work as your own is always wrong. Any suspected instance of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Academic Judiciary. For more comprehensive information on academic integrity, including categories of academic dishonesty, please refer to the academic judiciary website at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/uaa/academicjudiciary Adopted by the Undergraduate Council September 12, 2006
Component Weight
Proposal 10%
Paper Review Analysis (3 × 5%) 15%
Paper Review Presentation (3 × 5%) 15%
Final Project 20%
Final Project Presentation 30% (Talk 15%, Poster 15%)
Paper Writing (at least 6 pages) 10%
Participation and attendance subtract 1% from the 2nd missing
No exam. Weights are approximate and subject to change, with cut-offs determined by my judgement about students on the boundary. Participation is genuinely extra credit — it is added on top, not carved out of the rest. It is credit for asking a real question about someone else's paper, not for attendance alone.
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