COS-597B Syllabus

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Overview

• Classroom: Each week, students will be assigned one paper to read from the literature. In addition, one student will be assigned an additional paper to present to the class on a related topic. Each class period will include a lecture by the instructor, a presentation by the student on their additional reading, and a discussion on the assigned and additional reading.
• Presentations: Each student is expected to present one or more papers during the course of the semester. These papers are drawn from the reading list of the course, and they are not expected to be the students' original work.
• Grading: Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:
  • 50% Class participation
  • 25% Presentation on assigned readings
  • 25% "Research ideas" presentation

Prerequisites

This class is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with some prior (undergraduate-level) background in systems and/or networking. Some familiarity with both system/network programming will be helpful, as well as comfort with reading and digesting systems research literature.

Schedule

This schedule and syllabus are preliminary and likely to change.

Date	Topics	Notes	Readings	Presenter
Fri 09/12	Introduction--history, geometry, graphics, presence	Explore Second Life
Fri 09/19	Traditional networking and routing		RING, DistributedArch*	Golightly
Fri 09/26	Peer-to-peer routing architectures		StructuredStreams, DCCP*	Ferguson
Fri 10/03	Transactions, time, and consistency models		P2PGeometry, HierarchicalDHTs*, NonTransRouting*	Terrace
Mon 10/13	Consistency systems	2PC, PAXOS, eventual consistency, memcached	P-NP-VirtWorlds, BASE*	Ali
Fri 10/17	Consistency in games	Discussion on class-proposed topics	Sinfonia, Dynamo*	Sen
Fri 10/24	New network architectures		Colyseus, Donnybrook*	Badam
Fri 10/31	Fall recess	No class
Mon 11/10	Virtualization and migration		SCAFFOLD
Fri 11/14	Network management and fault tolerance	DNS tricks, IP anycast, ARP spoofing	Gone60Seconds, TCPMigrate*	Keller
Fri 11/21	Security		Ethane, AnycastCDNs*	Lloyd
Fri 11/28	Thanksgiving recess	No class
Wed 12/03	Special talk--Meru Virtual World	Colloquia abstract. 4pm in CS 105.
Fri 12/05	Dynamic environments	Content creation, scripting, CDN support, etc.	GraphicsWithQuadtrees, RTrees*	Shue
Fri 12/12		No class
Tue 12/16	Project presentations	15 minutes per student