This schedule and syllabus is preliminary and subject to change.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| Wed 09/11 | Course Overview (6up PDF) |
HowToRead05 | Join mailing list and Piazza site, optionally watch Scott Shenker's ONS'11 talk |
| Mon 09/16 | Logically-Centralized Control (6up PDF) |
4D05, Ethane07 (submit) | Complete Assignment 1 by 5pm Tue Sep 17, and optionally watch Nick McKeown's ONS'11 talk and optionally read MiniNet10 |
| Wed 09/18 | SDN Software Stack (6up PDF) |
OpenFlow08, NOX08, OpenVswitch09 (submit) | Skim SdnHistory13 |
| SDN Abstractions | |||
| Mon 09/23 | Data-Plane Verification (6up PDF) |
HSA12, Veriflow13 (submit) | Start Assignment 2 (due 5pm Tue Oct 1), and optionally watch Nick McKeown's ONS12 talk on testing |
| Wed 09/25 | Testing and Debugging (6up PDF) |
NICE12, ndb12 (submit) | Optionally read OFRewind11 |
| Mon 09/30 | Network Updates |
ConsistentUpdates12, zUpdate13 (submit) | Complete Assignment 2 (due 5pm Tue Oct 1), and optionally read OF.CPP and |
| Wed 10/02 | Programming Languages (6up PDF) |
Pyretic13, Maple13 (submit) | Start Assignment 3 (due 5pm Fri Oct 11) |
| Mon 10/07 | Controller State |
ONIX10, Resonance13 (submit) | Read ONOS slides |
| Wed 10/09 | Guest Lecture by Naga Katta, Nanxi Kang, and Laurent Vanbever |
No reading | Complete Assignment 3 (due 5pm Fri Oct 11) |
| SDN Applications | |||
| Mon 10/14 | Network Virtualization (6up PDF) |
FlowVisor10, Nicira13 (submit) | Optionally watch Martin Casado interview and Bruce Davie's talk at Open Networking Summit (see slides) |
| Wed 10/16 | Data-Center Traffic Management (6up PDF) |
HONE13, Hedera10 (submit) | Optionally read Lime12 and PortLand09 |
| Mon 10/21 | Wide-Area Traffic Management (6up PDF) |
GoogleWAN13 (submit) | Read IRSCP06 and SDX13, submit Project Proposal by 5pm Mon Oct 21 |
| Wed 10/23 | Wireless Networks |
OpenRadio12, SoftRAN13 (submit) | Optionally read Tallac13 |
| Mon 10/28 | Fall Break |
Optionally watch The Day the Routers Died | |
| Wed 10/30 | Fall Break |
Optionally watch My Favorite Net Things | |
| SDN Systems Challenges | |||
| Mon 11/04 | Control-Plane Scalability (6up PDF) |
Kandoo12 and ElasticController13 (submit) | Read LogicalXbar13 |
| Wed 11/06 | Data-Plane Scalability |
Difane10 (submit) | |
| Mon 11/11 | Security |
Fresco13 and SDNsec13 (submit) | |
| Wed 11/13 | Fault Tolerance |
FatTire13 and Automatic13 (submit) | Read Coronet12 |
| Enhancing the Data Plane | |||
| Mon 11/18 | OpenFlow++ |
OFchip13 (submit) | Read DevoFlow11, optionally skim OpenFlow 1.3 specification |
| Wed 11/20 | Measurement (6up PDF) |
OpenSketch13 (submit) | Read SoftCounters12 |
| Mon 11/25 | Programmable Data Planes (6up PDF) |
Click00 (submit) | Read SwitchBlade10 and skim the NetFPGA, RouteBricks, and Packet Shader web pages |
| Wed 11/27 | Thanksgiving Break |
Gobble, gobble! | |
| Mon 12/02 | Designing Middleboxes (e.g., server load balancer) |
Ananta13 (submit) | Read LoadWild11 and watch Aster*x talk and demo |
| Wed 12/04 | Managing Middleboxes |
Simple13 (submit) | Read OpenMb12 and FlowTags13, and optionally read NFV white paper |
| Course End-Game | |||
| Mon 12/09 | Incremental Deployment |
Panopticon13 (submit) | |
| Wed 12/11 | The Future of SDN |
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| Tue 01/14 | Final Project Report Due |
Dean's Date, all written work due by 5:00pm (submit) | |
| Fri 01/17 | Project Presentations |
Two-hour session to present final projects (date/time TBA based on exam schedules) | PhD Comics on presentations |
Last updated: Mon Nov 25 08:21:25 -0500 2013