This schedule and syllabus is preliminary and subject to change. Please read the paper(s) listed in the "Reading" column, and prepare to discuss the paper(s) for each class (excluding the "How to Read" paper).
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| Thu 09/13 | Course overview |
HowToRead05, ARPAdesign88 | Join the Piazza site! Optionally read InternetHistory |
| End Hosts (congestion control in TCP) | |||
| Tue 09/18 | End hosts |
TCPIP74 | Optionally read e2eArgument84 |
| Thu 09/20 | Distributed, fair sharing of bandwidth |
TCP88 | Optionally read TCPMeasure99 |
| Tue 09/25 | Congestion control in data centers |
DataCenterTCP10 | Optionally read Snap10 |
| Thu 09/27 | Congestion control over multiple paths |
MultiPathTCP11 | Optionally read MultiPathTCP12, Assignment 1 due Monday October 1 |
| Data Plane (programmability with SDN) | |||
| Tue 10/02 | Data plane |
Click00 | Optionally read RoadToSDN13 |
| Thu 10/04 | PRECISION18 and Sonata18 |
OpenFlow08, P414 | Optionally read Frenetic12 |
| Tue 10/09 | Programming abstractions |
Sonata18 | Optionally read UnivMon16 |
| Thu 10/11 | Network control |
Onix10 | Optionally read Hula16 |
| Control Plane (interdomain routing with BGP) | |||
| Tue 10/16 | BGP stability |
BGPInstability98 | Optionally read StablePathsProblem02 and BGPstability01 |
| Thu 10/18 | BGP routing policy |
Propane16 | Optionally read BGPpolicySurvey05, Assignment 2 due Friday October 19 |
| Tue 10/23 | BGP dynamics |
BGPdamping02 | Optionally read BGPskype07 |
| Thu 10/25 | BGP security |
BGPpartialSec13 | Optionally read BGPadopt14 |
| Tue 10/30 | Fall Break |
Watch The Day the Routers Died | |
| Thu 11/01 | Fall Break |
Read/watch My Favorite Net Things | |
| Applications | |||
| Tue 11/06 | Domain Name System (DNS) |
DNS88 | Optionally read King02 |
| Thu 11/08 | Content distribution |
CoralCDN10 | Optionally read MeasureCDN08, Project proposals due Friday November 9 |
| Tue 11/13 | Peer-to-peer |
BitTyrant07 | Optionally read BitTorrent03 |
| Thu 11/15 | Chord (Pamela Zave) |
Chord03 | Optionally read ChordModeling12, Assignment 3 due Friday November 16 |
| Tue 11/20 | Class cancelled |
||
| Thu 11/22 | Thanksgiving Break |
Gobble, gobble! | |
| Network Architecture | |||
| Tue 11/27 | Compositional network architecture |
Composition18 | |
| Thu 11/29 | Mobility |
Mobility13 | Project video presentation due 5pm Monday December 3 |
| Tue 12/04 | Endpoint security |
Security18 (section 1) | Optionally read mbTLS17 |
| Thu 12/06 | Infrastructure security |
Security18 (section 2) | Optionally read Mayday03 |
| Tue 12/11 | Routing (Seattle, RON) and naming (AIP, NDN) architectures |
Seattle08 | Optionally read NamedDataNetworking18 |
| Thu 12/13 | Course wrap-up |
JustWorks06 | Optionally read Tussle05 |
Last updated: 2019-01-23 22:56:53 -0500