4 Aug 2003
CS 6210: Module 0
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How to read a paper - depth
¡Examine the conclusions:
lDo the conclusions follow logically from the conclusions
¡We performed our experiments with 8 palm pilots and saw a 10 fold improvement. Hence we conclude that our system will scale to millions of palm pilots
lWhat other explanations are there for the observed effects
lWhat other conclusions or correlations are there in the data that they did not point out
¡Earlier work performed experiments using a 2 Mbit wireless network. Our system (incidentally) used a 11 Mbit network and saw a 5 fold improvement. So our technique works!!