Komplexpraktikum "Networked Systems Modeling" 2025s [PR 2025s]

Contents

The goal of this lab is to get practical experience in modeling and simulation of networked systems. You will actively take part in research, working on a small semester-long task individually or in small groups. The tasks are taken from the context of cooperative mobile systems, but the developed skills in model generation, simulation design, statistics, and result presentation are helpful in a broad range of application domains.

Each participant (or small group of participants) will choose a single task from a pool of tasks (see OPAL) to work on during the semester. Solving this single task is enough to pass the course.

This course is designed to work equally well as a stand-alone course or together with its sister course, the Komplexpraktikum “Cooperative Networked Systems”.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for joining. Still, certain background knowledge is not taught, but assumed for the course.

• You should have a background (or the willingness to learn) computer networking with a focus on wireless as well as fundamental knowledge of applied statistics.
• Simulations will be designed, written (in C++), and run (on Linux systems). For this, both programming and computer skills are essential.

Background knowledge in either “Network Simulation” or “Cooperative Mobile Systems” is helpful for the labs. However, all tasks are designed so that it is also easily possible to solve them without taking the courses (albeit with a little more time to get familiar with the simulation software and car-to-x communication). Grading at the end of the course will take this into account. Please ask your instructors for details.

Learning Outcome

See “Contents”.

General Information / Methods

This course will be held in English (German, if universally preferred) and all the course material is available in English. Course material will be distributed/collected via OPAL.

For participation:

• Plenary meetings will be conducted physically and/or using a streaming platform: the TU Dresden BigBlueButton instance, with Zoom as a fall-back. Times and dates are by arrangement; links will be published here.
• One-to-one interactions are up to participants and involved researchers.

Questions? Comments? Join the discussion in our Matrix Room #nsm-course-pr:tu-dresden.de (reachable from the TU Dresden Matrix server) or add a post to our OPAL forum!

Grading

Grades will be based on an end-of-project presentation.

If you want to get a grade, please pre-register this exam with us in the first two weeks of lecture. This is in addition to the regular exam registration you will need to do later in the semester. See the organizational slide deck for details.

Instructors

• Burkhard Hensel

Timeline

Meeting times will be by arrangement, to be discussed by e-mail in the first week; or simply drop by our first plenary meeting (see “In a nutshell” above).

Web Meeting Links

The first meeting is held both on campus and as a web meeting. Then, web Meetings are taking place every week. The final presentations will be held in person.

• Click here to join the web meeting

In case of technical difficulties, please check the Matrix room.

Slides

• 00-org.pdf - Organization
• more: see OPAL