| (01/23) Lecture 1: Course Overview and Computer Networking Review | |
| Grand Challenges in Networking? | Forty Data Communications Research Questions |
| Readings: | A Brief History of the Internet, You and Your Research, How to read papers |
| Recommended readings: | As We May Think, On Distributed Communication Networks, Why the Internet Only Just Works, Efficient reading |
The Internet: Architectural Principles, Congestion Control, Forwarding, Routing, Reliability and Security.
| (01/25) Lecture 2: Design Philosophy | |
| Readings: | The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols |
| Recommended readings: |
| (01/30) Lecture 3: Architectural Principles | |
| Readings: | End-to-End Arguments in System Design |
| Recommended readings: | Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet, Active Networks, ActiveE2E |
| (02/01) Lecture 4: TCP/IP Architecture | |
| Readings: | A protocol for packet network intercommunication |
| Recommended readings: | Modeling TCP Throughput, Multipath TCP |
| (02/06) Lecture 5: Congestion Control | |
| Required readings: | Congestion Avoidance and Control, Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms |
| Recommended readings: | Macroscopic Behavior, Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks |
| (02/08) Lecture 6: In-network Congestion Control | |
| Readings: | Why flow-completion time is the right metric |
| Recommended readings: | Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion, Fair Queueing, Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks |
| (02/13) Lecture 7: Router Architecture | |
| Readings: | 50-Gb/s IP Router, Tag Switching Architecture Overview |
| Recommended readings: | RouteBricks, PacketShader |
| (02/15) Lecture 8: Routing and Traffic Engineering | |
| Readings: | BGP routing policies in ISP networks, TeXCP |
| Recommended readings: | Pathlet Routing, Seattle,Anatomy of a Large European IXP, InterTubes, 10 Lessons from 10 Years, Internet Traffic Engineering by Optimizing OSPF Weights |
| (02/20) Lecture 9: Reliability | |
| Readings: | End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet |
| Recommended readings: | Internet Routing Instability, Stable Paths Problem, Selfish routing in Internet-like environments, Selfish routing, The End-to-End Effects of Internet Path Selection, Failure-Carrying Packets, End-to-end Effects, Consensus Routing, Slick Packets, SafeGuard, R-BGP |
| (02/22) Lecture 10: Security | |
| Readings: | Survey of BGP Security |
| Recommended readings: | How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols?, Prefix Hijacking and Interception, Pretty Good BGP, Listen and Whisper, Let the Market Drive Deployment: A Strategy for Transitioning to BGP Security, N-BGP |
| (02/27) February Break -- No Class |
| (03/01) Lecture 11: The Internet: Topology and Traffic Characteristics | |
| Readings: | Understanding the Internet's router-level topology, Wide-Area Internet Traffic Patterns and Characteristics |
| Recommended readings: | Measuring ISP topologies with rocketfuel, On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology, Internet Traffic Classification Using Bayesian Analysis Techniques |
| (03/06) Mid-term Project Presentations |
Software-Defined Networks: Solving some of the above problems by clean separation between data plane and control plane.
| (03/08) Lecture 12: Software-Defined Networks | |
| Readings: | Routing Control Platform, A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management |
| Recommended readings: | Fabric: A Retrospective on Evolving SDN, The Future of Networking and the Past of Protocols, iSDX, NOX |
| (03/13) Lecture 13: SDN Data Plane | |
| Readings: | OpenFlow, P4 |
| Recommended readings: | Barefoot P4 Overview |
| (03/15) Lecture 14: SDN Control Abstractions | |
| Readings: | Frenetic (Survey version) |
| Recommended readings: | PGA, Abstractions for Network Updates |
From The Internet to Datacenters: How new applications and workloads lead to new problems and solutions in network fabric design!
| (03/20) Lecture 15: Datacenter Architecture and Workloads | |
| Readings: | Jupiter Rising, Network Traffic Characteristics |
| Recommended readings: | FatTree, VL2, BCube, Jellyfish, Small world Datacenters, Network Characteristics 2, Network Characteristics 3 |
| (03/22) Lecture 16: Datacenter Congestion Control | |
| Readings: | DCTCP, Universal Packet Scheduling |
| Recommended readings: | pFabric, pHost, PCC, D3, PDQ, Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP |
| (03/27) Lecture 17: Datacenter Forwarding, Routing and Reliability | |
| Readings: | MicroTE, Network Failures in Data Centers |
| Recommended readings: | Packet Transactions |
| (03/29) Lecture 18: Datacenter Network Management | |
| Readings: | FlowRadar, PathDump |
| Recommended readings: | Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant Datacenters, OpenSketch, UnivMon, Pingmesh, Anteater, Header Space Analysis, VeriFlow, NetSight, Trumpet |
| (04/03) Spring Break -- No Class |
| (04/05) Spring Break -- No Class |
Emerging Topics in the Internet and datacenters: From new architectures to new applications to new hardware!
| (04/10) Lecture 19: Software-Defined WAN | |
| Readings: | B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN |
| Recommended readings: | SWAN, Ethane, SoftRAN |
| (04/12) Lecture 20: New Networking Abstractions | |
| Readings: | Coflows, Sincronia |
| Recommended readings: | i3, Orchestra, Varys, Aalo, Baraat |
| (04/17) Lecture 21: Datacenter Optics | |
| Readings: | Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center |
| Recommended readings: | RotorNet, c-Through, Helios, OSA |
| (04/19) Lecture 22: Resource Disaggregation | |
| Readings: | Network Requirements |
| Recommended readings: | Shoal, R2C2, XFabric |
| (04/24) Lecture 23: RDMA | |
| Readings: | DCQCN, Timely |
| Recommended readings: | RDMA over Commodity Ethernet |
| (05/01) Lecture 24: Future Network Architectures | |
| Readings: | Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research |
| Recommended readings: | Networking Named Content, HTTP as the Narrow Waist, Balancing accountability and privacy in the network |
| (05/03) Lecture 25: Future Network Architectures | |
| Readings: | Future Internet architecture: Clean-slate vs. evolutionary research |
| Recommended readings: | Networking Named Content, HTTP as the Narrow Waist, Balancing accountability and privacy in the network |
| (05/08) Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations |