NOTE WELL: This seminar is research-oriented, in english, and primarily aimed at Masters students. You will learn how to survey and present academic work in written and oral form. Down the line, it may prepare you for a thesis on the topic you survey during the seminar.

WARNING: This seminar is demanding. The schedule is tight, and you will have to put substantial work into surveying related work (breadth coverage), studying a specific technique (depth coverage) and structuring the written and oral presentation of your survey (tending towards an acceptable academic research level).

SYNOPSIS: In large part, the deep edge (aka the Internet of Things, or IoT) consists of distributed systems including low-end devices with very small memory capacity (a few kBytes) and limited energy consumption (1000 times less than a RaspberryPi). Deep edge capabilities promise a new world of applications, but also bring up specific challenges in terms of programmability, energy efficiency, networking and security. After an introductory session at the start of the term, MSc students will pick a topic related to current technologies in the field of low-power deep edge computing, Internet of Things and security, and write a report (IEEE LaTeX template, approx. 12 pages including figures and references, A4, double column, 1.5 spacing, 11-point font) discussing corresponding questions. At the end of the term, the participants present their results in the form of a short talk (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A) in a meeting, which will also include cross-reviewing of student's presentations. During the term, there will be deadlines for status reports, but no weekly meetings of the complete seminar group.

Attendance is mandatory only for the introductory session, a mid-term presentation, and the final presentation at the end of the term.

Literature

The typical bibliography and online resources that will be in scope to survey for this seminar includes:
- reviewing academic publications, e.g. papers from IEEE, ACM conferences/journals (available on scholar.google.com);
- reviewing network protocol open standard specifications, e.g. IETF drafts and Request For Comments (RFC);
- reviewing open source implementations (e.g. available on GitHub).

SCHEDULE

    T0 = 23.04.2025 at 2pm sharp: Introductory session presence is mandatory.
    T0 + 1 week : deadline for topic selection
    T0 + 2 weeks : deadline to submit tentative outline for the report    

    T0 + 2 weeks : preliminary presentation presence is mandatory on 07.05.2025 at 2pm sharp at Takustr. 9
    T0 + 6 weeks : (optional) deadline to submit pre-alpha (incomplete) version of the report, by 01.06.2025 end-of-day
    T0 + 10 weeks : deadline to submit final version of the report by 01.07.2025, end-of-day
    T0 + 11 weeks : final presentation. Presence is mandatory on 02.07.2025 at 2pm sharp at Takustr. 9