Resources

Software Systems Developed by NSL Members

• List of software developed at NSL

New Student's Guide to NSL

• NSL Guide, A new student's guide to NSL

Technical Reading and Writing

• Writing Guidelines, a list of paper writing guidelines used in NSL.

• 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.

• Reviewing a Journal Paper - Guidelines, by Robert Heath

Latex Tutorials and Templates

• One page overview of Latex

• Not-so-short Latex tutorial

• TeXnicCenter: Latex integrated environment (graphical), for MS Windows users You need to install MikTex before installing this environment.

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

• Guide on how to install LaTeX (MacTex) on a Mac.

• Simple template for writing reports: use it to write progress reports and initial versions of papers.

• HOWTO Manual for IEEE Transactions Latex Document

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

• Latex tips and tricks by Jason Rennie

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

Matlab Tutorials

• Matlab tutorial: sorted by topic

• A practical introduction to Matlab

• Matlab documentations

• Matlab tips and tricks

PlanetLab Tutorials

• Generate Certificates
• Getting the latest active nodes
• Deploying to PlanetLab
• Get results from PlanetLab
• Using screen on PlanetLab nodes
• Troubleshooting

OPNET Tutorials

• Importing video traffic into OPNET

Networking and Multimedia Courses Taught by NSL Professors

• Fall 2010: CMPT 820 -- Multimedia Systems Wiki Old Wiki Discussion

• Courses Taught by Dr. Mohamed Hefeeda

Video Library and Tools

• Video Library and Tools

Technical Tips (Login Required)

• Technical Tips

• SIGMM History Preservation

Useful Tools

• BOUML A free UML toolbox running under Unix/Linux/Solaris and Windows to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Php, Python and Idl.
• fabFORCE.net DBDesigner Open source visual database designer for MySQL for Windows and Linux KDE/Gnome.
• eSVN A cross-platform GUI frontend to the Subversion revision system which runs under Unix-like operating systems (GNU/Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and others), Mac OS X as well as Windows.
• SvnX A Mac SVN Client.
• WinFig An xFig clone for Windows users.
• NodeBox A Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Older versions (found here) had a graphs component that is based on Boost Graph.
• PowerTutor A useful tool that measures power consumption of computer processes, screen, GPS, 3G and WiFi of an HTC G1, HTC G2 and Nexus One Android operated phones. The measurements are saved to a plain text file that is easy to parse.

Random Thoughts (Login Required)

• Thoughts by Cheng

• Thoughts by Mohamed

Hardware/Computing Resources in NSL

• Hardware/Computing Resources in NSL

Access Control Lists on NSL Servers

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