Due: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 11:59PM
In this milestone, your team will propose the research result to replicate in your prjoect.
What is the paper that you have selected? Please give a full citation that includes the names of all authors, the title, the venue that published it, the year of publication, and a URL.
Has the paper previously been the subject of a post on the reproducingnetworkingresearch blog? (Answer must be “no” unless you have an exception from us.)
What is the relevant intellectual contribution of this paper that you will focus on? Explain this in language that is accessible to somebody who has not read the paper. The goal is to explain, “what does the paper purport to teach the reader?”
Example: “The paper contributes a new method/technique/approach for solving the problem of A, which arises in the context of B. The new method/technique/approach is C.” Or: “This paper describes an interesting measurement/discovery/finding in the area of A, which is important in the context of B because of C. The discovery/finding is reported to be D.”
Before the paper arrived, what was the “status quo ante”? I.e. what was the state of knowledge before the paper and its intellectual contributions arrived? How would a well-educated reader have approached some problem, or what would they have said about the world, before learning what the paper has to teach?
What is the result or claim that you will replicate, that is related to the intellectual contribution you identified above? Please identify a particular figure or number and cite where it is mentioned in the paper. Please screenshot the figure or number and include an excerpt in your report.
In your own words, what is the result saying? E.g., “The experiments found that the new method/technique/approach produces a 13% improvement in convergence time compared with the best prior work,” or “the measurements found that the distribution of TCP flow sizes is well-approximated by an exponential distribution with parameter value x.”
Briefly outline the steps your team will do to replicate this result. What infrastructure or software will you take from prior work? What will you build by following the paper's instructions? What part(s)/lines/numbers from the figure or text that you screenshotted will you attempt to replicate? At a high level, how do you plan to divide the work between the team members?
Draw a “sketch” of what the resulting replication might look like. E.g. if you're planning to redraw two of the lines from a graph, draw those lines freehand just to illustrate what the result of your replication might be. (Okay to do this by hand.)
What are some risks to your ability to complete the replication project? (What is the scariest part of your proposed plan, or the part most likely to fail?) What will you do as a fallback/mitigation in case these risks arise?
What do you plan to have done in time for the midterm report (May 13)?
Pleaes send an email to cs244-spr2324-staff@lists.stanford.edu, with the subject “Team <NAME>”, attaching your proposal as a PDF.