About review & read papers:
(selected and modified from MIT OCW 6.452 "Principles of Wireless Communication",I suppose these guidlines can be applied when we prepare our own papers or do/select our research topic. It's interesting and valuable.)
Note: Do not be biased by how well known the authors are or are not in preparing
your review!
As the well-known mathematician Paul Halmos once wrote, the goal of the reviewer is to
determine whether the work is 1) new, 2) true, and 3) interesting. A paper should meet all
three criteria, so you should assess each of these aspects of the paper to the best of your
abilities and experience.
Some questions to think about on dierent aspects of the manuscript when writing your
review:
Problem Formulation
How important is the problem being addressed to practice? What are the assumptions made? Are the nal results sensitive to these assumptions? Can the main ideas and approach of the paper be applied to more general cases when some of the assumptions are eliminated? What are the limits of applicability?
Technical Development
Is there an alternative way to derive these results? Are the results correct? Can you come up with illustrating examples, or even better, counter examples? Do the results warrant the level of mathematics used (i.e., does the end justify the means)? Is there an approximation that can arrive at the essentially the same results more easily or with more intuition? Is there a geometric picture one can develop to better understand the results?
Exposition
Are the ideas and results organized in a logical order? Is it easy or hard to
read, and why? How could it be better laid out? Think about how would you present
the same results if you were to have developed them. Note: you need not to comment
on the typographic or small grammatical errors
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