You can choose the topic you’re interested in and either go for “test of time” awarded papers in the field, or pick up a list from a graduate course in any Univ

You can choose the topic you’re interested in and either go for “test of time” awarded papers in the field, or pick up a list from a graduate course in any University. That way the professor would have done the curation for you. Just throwing out a link to one such paper based course (Datacenter Networkjng) from UC San Diego - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html