Hot Topics in Data Networks

Dear Students,

First of all, thanks for the great seminar! As we announced yesterday, the course evaluation is now available:
https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=127246&p=72edxn
We will close the evaluation site on 24th February. Entering your feedback helps us to improve our ongoing and future courses—something not only you but also your fellow students benefit from.

As a reminder: We will send you the final grades via email in a few days. If you do not want to receive your grade via email, please let us know before 18th Febr. 23:55 by writing to:
inet-teaching@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de
If you opt-out of the emailing process, you will be able to see your grade via the examination office or their related web interfaces later.

Finally, please upload the final version of the slides that you presented during the seminar before 18th Febr. 13:55 via the "Presented Slides" Submission tab.

Dear Students,

To better align our seminar with the exam regulations of the UdS, we have to make some changes to the previous plan:

1) You must enable your video camera during your presentation. Further, we highly encourage you to activate your camera during all Q&A sessions to significantly improve the interactiveness and provide especially the current speaker with visual feedback.
2) During the first 15 minutes of the second day (i.e., 9:45 - 10:00 CET), you must show us your student ID card.

We additionally add 30 minutes of debriefing time at the end of each day. All the changes are now also reflected on the seminar information page.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Dear Students,
Based on your Doodle information, we scheduled the block seminar for the 15th and 16th February, between 10:00 and approximately 17:00. If you can not make it to the entire block seminar due to, e.g., other exams, please drop us a mail via:

inet-teaching@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de

Please provide us with a reason why you are not able to participate in the seminar for a certain time period. Unless we provide an exception, we expect every student to take part in the entire seminar.

Dear Students,
We opened a Doodle for you to enter your availabilities with regards to the seminar presentations. Please enter your information until Wednesday, 3rd February, 23:55 CET. You can find a link here (as well as in the main page's schedule):

https://doodle.com/poll/8zwfb9dp79547haf

Please mark _for each date_ whether you have an exam conflict (as red), whether it is your preferred date (as green), or whether you would make it if you'd have to (as yellow). Unless impossible due to conflicts, please mark at least two dates green. If you have more than two conflicts, please write an email to:

inet-teaching@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de

Please assume that the presentations will occupy the entire time between 10:00 and 17:00 CET.

Dear Students,
As too few of you received our notification, we decided to reschedule the lecture to next Monday, 18th January, at 10 a.m. CET. Since we shift the related lecture, we also postpone the deadline for your slide drafts to Sunday, 24th January, at 23:59 CET. The deadline for the peer-review feedback stays the same.

You can join the lecture's Zoom session via this link:
https://zoom.us/j/97112493838?pwd=T2NmZzUwci9haU5BaFBYODBrcFUxQT09
Passcode: 221922

Dear Students,

Last Friday night, we fixed a bug on the peer-review information page. All references should now accurately link to their respective drafts. If this is not the case for you, it might be that your browser cached the old version---which you can clear easily in most browsers.

We added the links for the peer-reviews' Zoom sessions. In case your client asks for it, we also provided the passcode.

Dear Students,

As promised during the kickoff meeting, we provide a lecture on preparing seminar (and other technical) presentations. The lecture starts this Wednesday, at 10 a.m. CET.

 

You can join the lecture via this Zoom invite: 

https://zoom.us/j/98857235678?pwd=TlVENzZ6aTVsblpGK1RjazdYVWN2Zz09

Passcode: 009533

 

We will record the lecture. The chat will not be visible within the recording; however, Zoom records the active (i.e., the person that speaks the loudest at a given point in time) speaker's camera (if enabled) and all audio. Whenever you unmute yourself/enable your camera, you implicitly allow us to record your audio/video. 

Only currently registered students and our team members can access the lecture recording (similar to the other uploaded resources). 

Dear Students,

Thank you for submitting your seminar paper drafts. 

We uploaded details on the next step, the peer-review process,
here: https://inet-teaching.mpi-inf.mpg.de/htdn_20/3/Peer-Review_Process
On the page, you can find your group members, their drafts, and how the peer-review process works.

Please make sure to submit your feedback via the "Peer-Review Feedback" submission tab before 17th Jan. 2021, 23:59.
Format your feedback for individual drafts as PDF and join/compress them afterward into a .zip or .gz archive.

After the submission deadline, we will forward you all the feedback related to your draft---likely on Monday, 18th Jan. 2021.
Please take the feedback part seriously; it might help you or your fellow students to improve your seminar report.

Dear Students,

We hope that all of you found some time to recuperate during the holidays. Besides enjoying your quality time, we hope that you found cycles to work on your seminar reports. Since the deadline is in about a week (5th. January 2020, 23:59 CET), we enabled a submission tab called "Seminar Report Draft." Please notice that the submission format is a PDF---regardless of the template that you used.

We also enabled a "Doodle" for you to enter your preferred timeslots for the peer-review (the link can be found in the schedule on the main page). Please indicate _at least_ three timeslots at which you are available until the 5th. January 2020, 23:59 CET. If you miss the deadline, we expect you to be available at all timeslots.

Dear Students,

Now that we announced the mapping between papers and students, you have about three weeks to register for the seminar via HISPOS. The official deadline is December 1st, 2020.

Please use this week to read through and understand your assigned paper. Also, please contact your supervisor(s) and schedule a meeting with them throughout next week. Make sure that you can either explain your assigned paper to your supervisor (in detail) or prepare a set of questions for parts that you did not fully understand yet. In any case, make sure you familiarized yourself enough with the paper to be able to discuss it in-depth with your supervisor(s).

Please provide us with your preferences for the seminar papers by the end of this week---until Sunday, 8th November 2020, 23:59, to be exact. You can do so by writing _the numbers_ of your _five_ favorite papers (in descending order) as a comma-separated line accompanied _only_ (i.e., don't add any formal header/greeting or footer/parting parts) by your name in the subject of the email to inet-teaching@lists.mpi-inf.mpg.de. For example, the line "4, 10, 8, 27, 16" means that you prefer paper number 4 over paper number 10, etc. It also means that you prefer these five papers over all others.

To facilitate the decision process, we will host a kickoff meeting during which we will present short teasers for all papers. The kickoff meeting will happen this Wednesday, 14:15 CET. The zoom link will be available soon in the table in the Schedule section.