Syllabus

Week 1 - January 22-24: Introduction, TCP/IP Internet architecture

Lecture 1: Background, How to read papers

Week 2 (Jan 27-31):

Topic: [TCP/IP Internet architecture]
Reading:

J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System Design, ACM’s TOCS 1981

D .D. Clark, “The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols”, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1988
Tuesday - Paper Presentation 1 - Grant - End-to-End
Thursday - Paper Presentation 2 - Andrew - Design-Philosophy
Thursday - Quiz1 - Quiz 1 Solution

Week 3 (Feb 03-07):

Topic: [Interdomain Routing and BGP]
Reading:

Introduction to BGP

Labovitz, Craig, Abha Ahuja, Abhijit Bose, and Farnam Jahanian. “Delayed Internet routing convergence.” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2000

C. Partridge, T. Mendez, W. Milliken, “Host Anycasting Service”, RFC1546, 1993
Thursday - Paper Presentation 1 - David - BGP
Thursady - Paper Presentation 2 - Will - RFC1546

Week 4 (Feb 10-14):

Topic: [Anycast and DNS]
Reading:

Zhihao Li et. al.: Internet Anycast: Performance, Problems, & Potential, ACM SIGCOMM 2018

P. Mockapetris, K. Dunlap, “Development of Domain Name System”, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1988
Quiz2 - Quiz 2 Solution
Thursday - Paper Presentation 1 - Steven - DNS
Thursady - Paper Presentation 2 - Vaibabh - Anycast

Week 5 (Feb 17-21):

Tuesday - Paper Presentation 1 - Lina - IntServ

Thursday - Paper Presentation 2 - Thomas - DiffServ

Week 6 (Feb 24-28):

Topic: [Peer-to-Peer Networking]
Reading:

Bram Cohen, Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent, 2003

Pouwelse, J.A. & Garbacki, Pawel & Epema, D. & Sips, Henk. (2005). The Bittorrent P2P File-Sharing System: Measurements and Analysis. Peer-to-Peer Systems IV. 3640. 205-216.
Quiz3 - Quiz 3 Solution

Tuesday - Paper Presentation 1 - Bittorrent 1

Thursday - Paper Presentation 2 - Steven - BitTorrent

Week 7-8 (Mar 02-13):

Topic: [Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)]
Topic: [Information Centric Networking (ICN)]
Reading:

J. Dilley, et al., “Globally distributed content delivery”, IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5), pp. 50-58, 2002

Böttger, Timm, et al. “Open connect everywhere: A glimpse at the internet ecosystem through the lens of the netflix cdn.” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 48.1 (2018): 28-34

Tuesday - ICN, Quiz 4, Paper Presentation 1 - Akamai

Thursday - Paper Presentation 2 - Netflix

Week 9 (Mar 13-27) (Spring Break)

One page survey due next week- Named Data Networking for Cloud Computing - Existing work and Research Challanges

Week 11 (Mar 30-Apr 03)

Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

Named Data Networking

An Overview of Security Support in Named Data Networking

Tuesday - Regroup, Logistics, Push code to GitHub, Take an ungraded test on iLearn

Thursday - SDN overview

One page survey due - Named Data Networking for Cloud Computing - Existing work and Research Challenges

Week 12 (Apr 07 -11)

Topic: [SDN]
Reading:
Topic: [Software-Defined Networking (SDN)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXsCQdshMr4

OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks

Optional Reading - Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey

Tuesday - Paper Presentation- NDN- Vaibhav, NDN Security- Bulbul

Thursday - Quiz on NDN, Paper Presentation Openflow Grant

Week 13 (Apr 14-18)

Tuesday - Cloud Overview, Paper Presentation 1 Next-gen Cloud - David Thursday - Quiz, Paper Presentation 2 Cloud Security - Thomas

Week 14 (Apr 21-25)

Tuesday - Paper Presentation 1 Edge- Andrew

Thursday - Quiz 9

Week 15 (Apr 28- May 03)

Topic: Data Center
Reading:

Benson et.al. Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild

Al-Fares et. al., A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture

Tuesday - Paper Presentation 1 - ?

Thursday - Paper Presentation 2 - ?

End of the Semester