Remote Access

• You can remote access your desktop (Windows) from your home computer See MSU EGR Support

• You can access the Ubuntu computers via SSH. I suggest using MobaXterm. You can set up proxy so that no VPN is needed.

Lab Computer IP Address

• Out-of-network gateway: scully.egr.msu.edu

• website address: arctic.cse.msu.edu

• Lab computer IP addresses: Dropbox folder

• EGR git: https:git.egr.msu.edu

PowerPoint Presentation Template

• PowerPoint template: PowerPoint Template

• When you give a talk on behalf of the group, please use this PowerPoint template to prepare your slides

• Please stick to the template, including itemizing format, font size, font style

• Figures in the slides should be of high resolution

• Pictures in the slides should be noted with source if downloaded from Google Image

MS Word Template

• Word template: Word Template

LaTeX Template for Journal Review Response

• Download here: LaTeX Template

• An example of point-to-point response to reviewers’ comments: Response Example

Paper Biography

• Group member biography can be found here: Google-Doc

Write a Paper

Depending on the project you are working on, writing a paper typically comprises the following steps:

• Brainstorm the possible topics of your paper-

• Discuss your ideas with Dr- Zeng- Very likely, your first idea will not be accepted- So, bring as many ideas to group meeting as possible- The above steps will go through multiple iterations-

• Review literature to survey the related work- A summary table is needed to describe the existing work and the position of your work in the literature- Present your summary table in group meeting- It is important to answer the following questions:

  • how does your work differ from prior work?

  • how does your work advance the knowledge?

  • why is your work important?

• Define the scope of your work, formulate your problem, and explore possible solutions

• Implement your solution and evaluate their performance (experimental evaluation is a must whenever possible)

• Present your results in group meeting- Very likely, the above two steps will go through multiple iterations

• Target on a conference or journal for submission

• Write a draft of your paper

• Revise your paper with Dr- Zeng

• Finalize the paper for submission

Paper Preparation

• Before submitting your paper, you need to make sure

  • all figures in a paper should be .PDF format

  • all source files of figures should be kept in the paper folder for possible future use

  • all fonts in the paper is embedded. Using adobe software with short cut “Ctrl + D” to check whether the fonts are embedded or not. To avoid unembedded fonts, print your Matlab/OriginLab figures to PDF format first, and then save PDF figure to EPS format

• References in the paper should use BibTeX format. Use Google Scholar to download the BibTeX item of the paper. Care should be taken to the capital letters in the title and publication venue (if it is a conference paper). Use “{}” (e.g., “{MIMO}”) to maintain the capital letters in the title

• Any paper submission should be approved by Dr. Zeng

• Before submitting a paper, you should read the instruction on conference/journal website carefully

• For camera ready version (CRV) of accepted paper, the information of acknowledgment and funding sources should be added to the paper

• For the revision/rebuttal of a paper, every comment from reviewers should be addressed. Please use this template: LaTeX response template

Paper Presentation

• The paper should be selected in the following areas: wireless communications and networking, security, and sensing.

• The paper should be selected from the following conferences or journals: SIGCOMM, Mobicom, S&P, Mobihoc, CCS, MobiSys, Sensys, NSDI, Usenix Annual, Usenix security, ToN, Infocom, CoNext, NDSS, Sigmetrics, ICNP, DSN, ICDCS, etc.

• You focus on answering the following questions.

  • What problem is studied in the paper?

  • What is its methodology?

  • What are its results?

  • What is its novelty?

  • What are its main contributions?

  • What new knowledge (insights) does this paper offer for our research?

• Upload your slides to the shared OneDrive Folder. Name it in the format of “20201001_TopicAbbrevi_YourFirstName.pptx”.