The Centre for Networked Intelligence at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is organizing its inaugural three-day CNI Summer School on 5-6-7th August 2021.

The fully online Summer School will include lectures by IISc faculty members as well as hands-on lab sessions on computer networks. The lecture sessions will consist of four lectures on advanced topics in Networks and Wireless Communications and one session on IoT MAC/chip design (along with a demo). Hands-on lab sessions will be conducted using a CNI’s cloud-based online lab platform.

The Summer School is targeted at 4th Year Bachelors’/dual-degree students or Masters’/PhD programs in engineering (ECE/CS/EE or related streams). A (free) registration is required for participation in the Summer School. Lecture participation will be through Zoom.

You may register for lecture sessions of the CNI Summer School by filling up the registration form. Registration for lab sessions is now closed.

Please email us at contact.cni@iisc.ac.in in case of difficulties in registering.

Schedule

Dates: August 5-6-7 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)

Timings: Mornings 9:30am to 12:30pm Afternoons 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Lecture Topics schedule

Date and Time	Topic	Instructor
5th August 9:30am	Welcome and Introduction
5th August 9:40am – 10:55am	Parallel Server Systems	Prof. Parimal Parag
5th August 11:15am – 12:30pm	Control over networks	Prof. Vaibhav Katewa
6th August 9:30am – 10:45am	Learning and Control for networks	Prof. Rahul Singh
6th August 11am – 12:15pm	QCSMA and Max-Weight algorithm	Prof. Chandramani Singh

Session on IoT MAC and chip design (August 7)

Time	Topic	Instructor
2:00 pm – 3:25 pm	TSCH MAC (IEEE 802.15.4e) design for a radio chip	Prof. T V Prabhakar
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Demo on implementation of the MAC design on a hardware platform	Prof. T V Prabhakar

Lab sessions

Time and date	Topic
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, August 5	Hands-on lab, session-1
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, August 6	Hands-on lab, session-2
9:30 am – 12:30 pm, August 7	Hands-on lab, session-3