1. ECE 6397, Fall, 2012 Selected Topic in Optimization
                                                           
Zhu Han
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Class 2
Aug. 27nd, 2012

2. Slides Steven Boyd’s slides
Slides 1 to 15
Part of my own thesis
Term project
Read lecture 2 and lecture 3 before next class
Chinese saying: stupid bird flies first.

3. Term Project
Possible topics
Cognitive Radio, femto cell, smart grid, Power line communication, Satellite communication, physical layer security, vehicular network communication, compressive sensing, game theory, and quickest detection
Other topics related to your area
Literature review
IEEE communication magazine to get some tutorial papers
Important citations can be found by IEEE Xplore
Citeseer to test if the paper is well cited and recognized
Writing
200 words abstract, 1 page introduction, 3 pages details, and 1 page simulations.
Grouping
Literature search, 10 papers. Finally target to 5 papers.

4. Technical Writing
Structure, Logic (between sentences and paragraphs), and Strictness (no holes).
Know who is your audiences
Structure
Title and keyword: concise and hit the point, for google users
Abstract: 200 words, for directors who have 20 seconds
Why it is a good topic
What is the idea and contribution
What are the results
Introduction: 2 to 3 pages, for managers who have 5 minutes
What are in the literature, or what are the competitors
(Organization)
System model
Problem formulation, proposed scheme, and analysis
Results
Conclusions
Citations
For peer