Mihai's Miscellanea

Paper Critiques

• For UCSB CS 290I Winter 1999, Wide Area Network Services, under Professor Anurag Acharya  ( http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~acha, acha@cs.ucsb.edu):
  
  
  1. The paper: "Composable Ad-hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction"
     by Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Lawrence Rowe
     from the Computer Science Division of University of California at Berkeley
     
     The critique: PDF (45k)
     
     
  2. The paper: "SMUX Protocol Specification (W3C Working Draft 03-December-1997)"
     by Jim Gettys (DEC), Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
     from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
     
     The critique: PDF (39k)
     
     
  3. The paper: "A Defense Against Address Spoofing Using Active Networks"
     by Van C. Van
     from EECS Department of Masachusetts Institute of Technology
     
     The critique: PDF (39k)
     
     
  4. The paper: "An Architecture for Active Networking"
     by Samrat Bhattacharjee, Kenneth L. Calvert, Ellen W. Zegura
     from the Networking and Telecommunication Group of the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
     
     The critique: PDF (39k)
     
     

To Ph.D. or Not To Ph.D.?

I have put together a small page listing the story of my applying to the Ph.D. program. Read and laugh (or cry) here.