CS590's reference and reading list

Reference Readings Back to CS590

Reference List

NOT used for in-class presentation

5G White Papers, Tutorials and Technologies

• NGMN 5G White Paper , 2015
  
• What is 5G? Jeffrey G. Andrews et.al, JSAC, Vol. 32, No. 6, June 2014.
• Five Disruptive Technology Directions for 5G , Federico Bocardi, et.al, IEEE Communications Magazine, Feb 2014.
• 5G Americas whitepaper, LTE to 5G: Cellular and Broadband Innovation , 2017
• An overview of D2D in 3GPP LTE standard (check https://www.slideshare.net/ and there are many slides on D2D communication, e.g., 2
• 5G Americas - Wireless Technology Evolution Towards 5G: 3GPP Release 13 to Release 15 and Beyond (requirement: familiar with 3GPP standardization.
• C-RAN White Paper: The Road Towards Green Ran , Jun. 2014.
• Tutorial on 5G SDN and NFV, SIGCOMM, 2016.
  
  

  4G Mobile Networks

• (Presentation): The Evolution of Mobile Technologies: 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, Qualcomm , 2014
• LTE tutorial
• SIGCOMM'14: Control-Plane Protocol Interactions in Cellular Networks, Guanhua Tu, Yuanjie Li, Chunyi Peng, Chiyu Li, Hongyi Wang, Songwu Lu.
• SIGCOMM'13: An In-depth Study of LTE: Effect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on Performance, by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Yihua Guo, Yuanyuan Zhou, Qiang Xu and Z. Morley Mao.
  
  RRC:
• Mobisys'12: A Close Examination of Performance and Power Characteristics of 4G LTE Networks, by Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck.
• MobiCom'12: RadioJockey: Mining Program Execution to Optimize Cellular Radio Usage, by Pavan Kumar Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Dushyant Arora, Venkat Padmanabhan, and George Varghese.
  
  4G Voice
• MobiCom'15: Performance Characterization and Call Reliability Diagnosis Support for Voice over LTE, by Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, and. Z. Morley Mao.
• CCS'15: Insecurity of Voice Solution VoLTE in LTE Mobile Networks, Chiyu Li, Guanhua Tu, Chunyi Peng, Zengwen Yuan, Yuanjie Li, Songwu Lu, Xinbing Wang.
• MobiCom'13: How Voice Calls Affect Data in Operational LTE Networks, by Guan-Hua Tu, Chunyi Peng, Hongyi Wang, Chi-Yu Li, Songwu Lu.
  
  4G Mobility
• SIGMETRICS'16: Instability in Distributed Mobility Management: Revisiting Configuration Management in 3G/4G Mobile Networks, by Yuanjie Li, Haotian Deng, Jiayao Li, Chunyi Peng and Songwu Lu.
• NSDI'16: iCellular: Define Your Own Cellular Network Access on Commodity Smartphones, by Yuanjie Li, Haotian Deng, Chunyi Peng, Guan-Hua Tu, Jiayao Li, Zengwen Yuan, Songwu Lu.

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Reading List (for in-class presentation and reading assignments)

4G Mobile Networks

• MobiCom'17: NutShell: Scalable Whittled Proxy Execution for Low-Latency Web over Cellular Networks, Ashiwan Sivakumar, Chuan Jiang, and Yun Seong Nam, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan and Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Sanjay G Rao, Subhabrata Sen, Mithuna Thottethodi and Vijaykumar T.N.
• MobiCom'17: Adding the next nine: An investigation of mobile broadband networks availability, by Ahmed Elmokashfi, Dong Zhou, and Dziugas Baltrunas.
  
  

  5G applications

• Presentation: 3GPP Standards for the Internet-of-Things, Philippe Reininger, Nov 2016.
• 5G-PPP White Paper on Media and Entertainment Vertical Sector, January 2016.
• 5G-PPP White Paper on Automotive Vertical Sector, October 2015. ( Presented by Prof Peng, not eligible for in-class presentation )
• 5G-PPP White Paper on eHealth Vertical Sector, October 2015
• Internet of Things in the 5G Era: Enablers, Architecture, and Business Models , 2016.
• V2X Cellular Solutions, by 5G America, Oct 2016

  5G Technologies

• 5G PPP Architecture Working Group View on 5G Architecture (Version 2.0) , July 2017.
• 5G-PPP Vision on Software Networks ? (White Paper) January 2017.This paper provide a first conceptual architecture seamlessly and flexibly combining SDN and NFV technologies for 5G.
• 5G-PPP Cognitive Network Management for 5G ? March 2017 . In this paper, the novelties for network management in 5G are presented.
• 5G PPP Security Landscape ? (White Paper) June 2017 This paper provide insights into how 5G security should be addressed in terms of ?what? and ?why?. If interested, please check https://5g-ppp.eu/white-papers/ for more white papers from 5G-PPP.
• Video (presentation): 5G Network Architecture and Design , Part I (page 45- 80): radio access and physical layer technology, Andy Sutton, 2017
• Video (presentation): 5G Network Architecture and Design , Part II (page 81- 110): network management and Orchestration, Andy Sutton, 2017
• 5G Americas - Wireless Technology Evolution Towards 5G: 3GPP Release 13 to Release 15 and Beyond , Part I (page. 36-80): Release 13: HSPA+ and LTE-A) (requirement: be familiar with 3GPP standardization)
• 5G Americas - Wireless Technology Evolution Towards 5G: 3GPP Release 13 to Release 15 and Beyond Part II (page. 137- 186): Release 14 + Release 15 (requirement: be familiar with 3GPP standardization)
• Network Slicing to Enable Scalability and Flexibility in 5G Mobile Networks , 2017
• (Presentation): Mobile critical communications Standards, Feb 2017 (topic: critical communication)
• Cloud radio access network (C-RAN): a primer, 2015
• Recent Progress on C-RAN Centralization and Cloudification, by Chih-Lin I , Jinri Huang , Ran Duan , Chunfeng Cui , Jesse (Xiaogen) Jiang , Lei Li, 2014
• Mobile edge computing? A key technology towards 5G, ETSI White Paper, 2015.

  Misc Efforts

• A High Performance Packet Core for Next Generation Cellular Networks, by Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Melvin Walls,Aurojit Panda,Vyas Sekar,Sylvia Ratnasamy,Scott Shenker, SIGCOMM'17, 2017.
• Open network interfaces for carrier networks, Aurojit Panda, James Murphy McCauley, Amin Tootoonchian, Justine Sherry, Teemu Koponen, Syliva Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, SIGCOMM CCR, 2016.
  
• Rethinking LTE Network Function Virtualization, Muhammad Taqi Raza, Dongho Kim, Kyu Han Kim, Songwu Lu, Mario Gerla, ICNP'17.
• Orion: RAN Slicing for a Flexible and Cost-Effective Multi-Service Mobile Network Architecture, by Xenofon Foukas and Mahesh K. Marina, Kimon Kontovasilis, MobiCom'17.
  
• Proteus: A network service control platform for service evolution in a mobile software defined infrastructure Aisha Syed, Jacobus Van der Merwe, MobiCom'16.
  
  
• Eliminating Channel Feedback in Next-Generation Cellular Networks, Deepak Vasisht, Swarun Kumar, Hariharan Rahul and Dina Katabi, SIGCOMM'16.
• QuickC: Practical sub-millisecond transport for small cells by Rakesh Misra,Aditya Gudipati,Sachin Katti, MobiCom'16.
• LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum: Are We There Yet?, Eugene Chai, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Mohammad A. Khojastepour, and Sampath Rangarajan.
  
  
• A Control-Plane Perspective on Reducing Data Access Latency in LTE Networks , Yuanjie Li, Zengwen Yuan, Chunyi Peng, MobiCom'17.
• ParaBox: Exploiting Parallelism for Virtual Network Functions in Service Chaining , Bo Han, Yang Zhang, Muhammad Anwer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Joshua Reich, Aman Shaikh, Zhi-Li Zhang, SOSR'17.
• CellIQ : Real-Time Cellular Network Analytics at Scale, , Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li, Ion Stoica, NSDI'15. (Topic: mobile network analytics)
• MobileInsight: Extracting and Analyzing Cellular Network Information on Smartphones, Yuanjie Li, Chunyi Peng, Zengwen Yuan, Jiayao Li, Haotian Deng, Tao Wang, MobilCom'16. (Topic: mobile network analytics)
• Intelligent 5G: When Cellular Networks Meet Artificial Intelligence, , by Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xuan Zhou , Guoru Ding , Yan Chen , Zhongyao Wang , Honggang Zhang, 2017.
• Towards Automated Intelligence in 5G Systems Haotian Deng, Qianru Li, Yuanjie Li, Songwu Lu, Chunyi Peng, Taqi Raza,Zhaowei Tan, Zengwen Yuan, Zhehui Zhang, ICCCN'17.
• Experience: Automating Diagnosis of Cellular Radio Access Network Problems, , Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li, Ion Stoica, MobiCom'17.
• An In-depth Understanding of Multipath TCP on Mobile Devices: Measurement and System Design , Ashkan Nikravesh, Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Subhabrata Sen, Mobicom 2016
• Adding the Next Nine: an Investigation of Mobile Broadband Networks Availability, Ahmed Elmokashfi, DongZhou, Dziugas Baltrunas, MobiCom'17.
  
  
• NutShell: Scalable Whittled Proxy Execution for Low-Latency Web over Cellular Networks, Ashiwan Sivakumar, Chuan Jiang,Yun Seong Nam, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Sanjay G. Rao, Subhabrata Sen, Mithuna Thottethodi, T.N. Vijaykumar, MobiCom'17.
• Furion: Engineering high-quality immersive virtual reqliaty on Today’s Mobile devices, Zeqi Lai, Y. Charlie Hu, Yong Cui, Linhui Sun, Ningwei Dai, Mobicom’17
• Accelerating Mobile Web Loading Using Cellular Link Information , Xiufeng Xie, Xinyu Zhang, Shilin Zhu, MobiSys'17.
• Network Design Automation --- Treating Networks like Programs and Chips , G. Varghese. (Topic: network verification)
• Modular Safety Verification for Stateful Networks, Kalev Alpernas, Roman Manevich, Aurojit Panda, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker, Sharon Shoham, Yaron Velner, 2017. (Topic: network verification)
• Verification in the Age of Microservices, Aurojit Panda, Mooly Sagiv, Scott Shenker, HotOS'17, 2017. (Topic: verification)
• New Security Threats Caused by IMS-based SMS Service in 4G LTE Networks Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Chunyi Peng, Yuanjie Li and Songwu Lu, CCS'16.
• Sending Out an SMS: Characterizing the seucrity of the SMS Ecosystem with Public Gateway, B. Reaves, N. Scaife, D. Tian, L. Blue, P. Traynor, Security and privacy, 2016.
• Insecurity of Voice Solution VoLTE in LTE Mobile Networks Chiyu Li, Guanhua Tu, Chunyi Peng, Zengwen Yuan, Yuanjie Li, Songwu Lu, Xinbing Wang, CCS'15.
• iCellular: Define Your Own Cellular Network Access on Commodity Smartphones Yuanjie Li, Haotian Deng, Chunyi Peng, Guan-Hua Tu, Jiayao Li, Zengwen Yuan, Songwu Lu, NSDI'16.
• Instability in Distributed Mobility Management: Revisiting Configuration Management in 3G/4G Mobile Networks , Yuanjie Li, Haotian Deng, Jiayao Li, Chunyi Peng and Songwu Lu, SIGMETRICS'16.
• Dissecting HAS VOD Services for Cellular: Performance, Root Causes and Best Practices , Shichang Xu, Yunhan Jia, Z. Morley Mao, and Subhabrata Sen, IMC'17.