Assignment One: Literature Review

Due Date: Feb. 5, Thursday, print out to bring to class and submit to Turnitin.com prior to class

Details: Go to the links on the CSUC Portal Home Page and in the lower left hand column you should see a section titled “Student Links” with a category of “Library Research”, take the Computer Science link and then the IEEE link. You also have access to the “Library Research” link on your course home page in Vista.

In class on January 29 we used the search facility inside the IEEE site to find the following two articles in Conference Proceeding for you to review and critique:

Please note: Since some of you had difficulty logging in to the Research Station at the library, I have provided the full texts of the two papers below at these links

1. Automatic Performance Diagnosis Paper

2. Distributed Computing in Wireless Networks

3. Automatic Performance Diagnosis for Changing Workloads in DBMSs
Found in: 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2 (AINA'06)
By Darcy G. Benoit
Issue Date:April 2006
pp. 509-518
Database performance is directly linked to

4. Time and Energy Complexity of Distributed Computation of a Class of Functions in Wireless Sensor Networks
Found in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
By Nilesh Khude , Anurag Kumar , Aditya Karnik
Issue Date:May 2008
pp. 617-632
We consider a scenario in which a wireless sensor network is formed by randomly deploying $n$ sensors to measure some spatial function over a field, with the objective of computing a function of the measurements and communicating it to an operator station....

For these two articles, you are to use the techniques as described in Chapter 12 of your textbook and any other online or printed references you can find to review and critique these two conference articles. Develop a list of criteria as to how you are rating the articles (you can use the rubric for evaluating written technical work and even enhance this rubric with some more criteria) and come up with a rating table for each of the articles for purposes of comparison and contrast. Finally, write a paragraph for each article summarizing its contribution, strengths and weaknesses. Conclude your assignment by writing a paragraph that gives your justification for why one article is better written and more of a valuable contribution than the other.

Be sure to print out a copy of your review of the two articles and bring it to class on Thursday evening, February 5 at 5 pm. Also, you should have submitted your assignment online some time prior to attending class.

Also, be sure to fill out the online survery prior to class on Feb. 5.

Additionaly, come with a sheet of paper with your top three ranked topics/areas for the Feb. 5 class.