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

• One page overview of Latex

• Not-so-short Latex tutorial

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

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

• 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

• 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

OPNET Tutorials

• Importing video traffic into OPNET

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

• 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)