Resources

Technical Reading and Writing

• How to Read a Paper, By S. Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, 37(3):83--84, July 2007.

• Paper reading and writing checklists

• How to write a great research paper

• ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (New grad students: Read Section 1 of this document.)

• Useful links on research and writing

• William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style (available online at: http://www.bartleby.com/141/)

• How To Write A Dissertation, by Douglas Comer

• J. Zobel, Writing for Computer Science, 2nd edition, Springer, 2004.

Latex Tutorials and Templates

• HOWTO Manual for IEEE Transactions Latex Document

• Kile: Latex integrated environment, For Linux (KDE) users

• Not-so-short Latex tutorial

• The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (Local Copy, downloaded in Dec 2007)]

• TeXnicCenter: Latex integrated environment, for MS Windows users

• Latex tips and tricks by Jason Rennie

• Simple latex template: use it to write progress reports and initial versions of papers. Use this sample bibliography file to manage references in your document.

• Simple template for writing algorithms in papers. Here is the macros file used. See the Selection Algorithm (Fig 5) in this paper for the final result of the template.]

• Some bibliography files (mostly on P2P): literature.bib literature2.bib

• Notes on Matlab, LaTex, xfig, and EPS figures

Matlab Tutorials

• Matlab tutorial: sorted by topic

• A practical introduction to Matlab

• Matlab documentations

• Matlab tips and tricks

Networking and Multimedia Courses Taught by NSL Professors

• Summer 2008: CMPT 820 -- Multimedia Systems Wiki Discussion

• Courses Taught by Dr. Mohamed Hefeeda

Video Library and Tools

• Video Library and Tools

Random Thoughts (Login Required)

• Thoughts by Cheng

Hardware/Computing Resources in NSL

• Hardware/Computing Resources in NSL

The figure below depicts the computing resources available in the Network Systems Lab.

File:Nsl.jpg

Brief Description and Usage:

• nsl: Lab web and file server. Has about 1 TB of (RAID) storage.

• nsl-cpu: 8-core server, 8 GB memory. We use it to run simulations and large-scale experiments.

• nsl-win: Windows Terminal Server for remote access. It has most of the needed Microsoft software.

• nsl-cl: 11 machines interconnected through a fast Ethernet switch. They can be configured in different topologies to test our code. They could form an isolated network for experimentation. They also can be used for general processing such as running multiple replicas of a simulation code.

• PlanetLab WAN Testbed: Access to several hundred machines distributed all over the Internet. We use them for testing our systems in WAN environments.

• Wireless Sensor Testbed: For implementing and testing our protocols in the wireless sensor networks research area.

• Workstations: For use by students.

These computing resources are partially funded by an NSERC RTI Grant.

Access Control Lists on NSL Servers

• Howto Create Accounts and Modify Permissions on NSL Servers (Login Required)