Timing and Organization

The slides (PDF, 305 KB) will be shown in the introduction session, summarize important thematic and organizational aspects of this seminar. Please consider, in addition, the following information and material:

• Guideline to write a seminar report (PDF, 157 KB)*: This document contains just two pages of text the most important information on how to structure a written seminar report, the key points of style in writing such a document, and essentials on the correct use of references and citations. All students are required to carefully consider these guidelines when compiling the written seminar report.
• Seminar requirements and guidelines (PDF, 220 KB): This document contains all requirements to be met for a successful participation in the seminar. Note that all deadlines and requirements have to be met. Especially, you need to be physically attending the seminar at all minus one date.
• For the written seminar report, the use of the provided LaTeX template (ZIP, 330 KB) is mandatory.

As the seminar introduction touched the heavily investigated and debated topic of the future of the Internet, the following three papers provide an impression of different approaches and viewpoints regarding the Future Internet and its design principles. The Stanford University paper (PDF, 111 KB) presents a so-called clean-slate approach to the Future Internet, meaning a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary approach. The FIArch (Future Internet Architecture Working Group) paper (PDF, 100 KB) collects fundamental limitations of the current Internet, while the ITU-T Recommendation Y.3001 (PDF, 241 KB) outlines a collection of high-level objectives and design goals for future networks. Understand that these papers are highly selective out of many more.

Topics

The detailed topic descriptions*  is available in a single PDF file (PDF, 299 KB) for download.

* These files can only be downloaded from within the university's network. Please use a VPN client when accessing from outside.