Resources

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

• MacTex on a Mac. Comes with BibDesk (for bibliography) and TeXShop. For command completion, use the escape key (or change it to tab in the preferences).

• 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

• Summer 2008: CMPT 820 -- Multimedia Systems 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.
• 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.

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)