No reviews due.

Syllabus

As we may think (V. Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945)
A brief history of the Internet (Leiner et al)
On Distributed Communications Networks (Baran, 1962)

Networking review, Grand Challenges
Project ideas

No reviews due.

Forty Data Communications Research Questions (Partridge, CCR 2011)

Where to look for project ideas

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. A protocol for packet network intercommunication. IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 22 No. 5, May 1974.

David Clark, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols. Proc. SIGCOMM 1988.

J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark. End-to-End Arguments in System Design. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, Nov 1984, pp. 277-288

Assignment 1 released: pdf tar.gz

Congestion Avoidance and Control (Jacobson, SIGCOMM 1988) Note: You need not read the appendices of this paper.

Why flow-completion time is the right metric (Dukkipati, Tech Rep 2005; CCR 2006)

Dah-Ming Chiu and Raj Jain. Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, June 1989, pp. 1-14.

DCTCP (Alizadeh et al, SIGCOMM 2010)

D3 (Wilson et al, SIGCOMM'11), PDQ (Hong et al., SIGCOMM'12), pFabric (Alizadeh et al., SIGCOMM'13)

Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion (Briscoe, CCR April 2007)

Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, and Charlie Rohrs. Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks. SIGCOMM 2002.

Assignment 1 due

50-Gb/s IP Router (Partridge et al., ToN 1998)

Tag Switching Architecture Overview (Rekhter, Davie, Rosen, Swallow, Farinacci, Katz, 1997), RouteBricks (Dobrescu, SOSP 2009), PacketShader (Han, SIGCOMM 2010)

TeXCP (Kandula, SIGCOMM 2005)

Project proposals due (instructions)

BGP routing policies in ISP networks (Caesar and Rexford, IEEE Network Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005)

Anatomy of a Large European IXP (Ager et al., SIGCOMM 2012)

10 lessons from 10 years (Roughan, JSAC 2011)

NIRA (Yang, ToN 2007)

Compact routing (Thorup and Zwick, SPAA 2001), SEATTLE (Kim, SIGCOMM 2008), ViAggre (Ballani, NSDI 2009), Scalable routing on flat names (Singla, CoNEXT 2010)

OpenFlow (McKeown, 2008)

Fabric: A Retrospective on Evolving SDN (Casado, Koponen, Shenker, Tootoonchian, HotSDN 2012)

Recommended video, no review: The Future of Networking, and the Past of Protocols (Shenker, ONS 2011)

Routing Control Platform (Caesar, NSDI 2005), NOX (Gude, CCR 2008), ONIX (Koponen, OSDI 2010)

B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN (Jain et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

SWAN (Hong, SIGCOMM 2013), Ethane (Casado, SIGCOMM 2007), SoftRAN (Gudipati, HotSDN 2013)

End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet (Paxson, SIGCOMM 1996)

Ensuring Connectivity via Data Plane Mechanisms (Liu, NSDI 2013), Failure-Carrying Packets (Lakshminarayanan, SIGCOMM 2007), End-to-End Effects (Savage et al, SIGCOMM 1999), Consensus Routing (John, NSDI 2008), SafeGuard (Li, CoNEXT 2009), R-BGP (Kushman, NSDI 2007), Packet Re-cycling (Sae Lor, Hotnets 2010)

Network games

Demo video

Selfish routing in Internet-like environments (Qiu, SIGCOMM 2003)

Stable Paths Problem (Griffin, ToN 2002), Selfish Routing (Roughgarden, JACM 2002)

Survey of BGP security (Butler, Proc IEEE, 2010)

How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? (Goldberg, SIGCOMM 2010), Prefix Hijacking and Interception (Ballani, SIGCOMM 2007), Pretty Good BGP (Karlin, Computer Networks, 2008), Listen and Whisper (Subramanian, NSDI 2004)

DDoS Defense by Offense (Walfish, SIGCOMM 2006)

To Filter or to Authorize (Liu, SIGCOMM 2008), Network-level Behavior of Spammers (Ramachandran, SIGCOMM 2006), Not-a-Bot (Gummadi, NSDI 2009)

VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network (Greenberg et al, SIGCOMM 2009)

Scalable, Commodity DC Net Arch (Al Fares et al, SIGCOMM 2008), PortLand (Mysore et al, SIGCOMM 2009), BCube (Guo et al, SIGCOMM 2009), Jellyfish (Singla et al, NSDI 2012)

Data center optics

Invited virtual guest:
Nathan Farrington, Facebook

Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center (Porter et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

c-Through (Wang et al, SIGCOMM 2010), Helios: A Hybrid Electrical/Optical Switch Architecture for Modular Data Centers (Farrington et al, SIGCOMM 2010), OSA (Chen et al, NSDI 2012)

Field trip — departing 3:05 pm (optional)

Assignment 2 released: pdf

Invited virtual guest:
Forest Godfrey, Cray

The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection (Anonymous, CCR 2011) Also read the public review and see the presentation slides.

An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks (Wang, Qian, Xu, Mao, Zhang, SIGCOMM 2011), Internet Inter-Domain Traffic (Labovitz, SIGCOMM 2010), California Fault Lines (Turner, SIGCOMM 2010), Delayed Internet Routing Convergence (Labovitz, ToN 2001), Impact of Routing Events (Wang, SIGCOMM 2006), Reverse traceroute (Katz-Bassett, NSDI 2010), Broadband Internet performance: a view from the gateway (Sundaresan, SIGCOMM 2011)

Assignment 2 due 5pm Mon Nov 18 (solutions)

A Case for a Coordinated Internet Video Control Plane (Liu, Dobrian, Milner, Jiang, Sekar, Stoica, Zhang, SIGCOMM 2012)

Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement (Dobrian, SIGCOMM 2011), Experiences with CoralCDN: A Five-Year Operational View (Freedman, NSDI 2010), BitTorrent incentives (Levin, SIGCOMM 2008)

Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling (Zhou et al, SIGCOMM 2012)

DCNs with Wireless (Halperin et al, SIGCOMM 2011)

Low Latency via Redundancy (Vulimiri et al, CoNEXT 2013), Speeding up request-response workflows (Jalaparti et al, SIGCOMM 2013)