CMSC 711 Computer Networks | |
| Spring 2007 | |
| Instructor | Neil Spring |
| nspring at cs | |
| Office | 4133 A. V. Williams |
| Office Hours | by appointment or drop by |
| Classroom | CSIC 2107 |
| Meets | TTh 3:30-4:45 |
| Syllabus | |
| Mailing List | mailman |
| TA | Cristian Lumezanu |
| lume at cs | |
| Office Hours | by appointment or drop by AVW 3122 |
| Jan 30 | The Task of the Referee Alan Jay Smith |
how to review |
| How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper Roy Levin, David D. Redell |
how to write | |
| Strategies for Sound Internet Measurement Vern Paxson |
how to measure | |
| Feb 6 | The Design Philosophy of DARPA Internet Protocols David D. Clark |
internet design |
| Feb 8 | PlanetLab:A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet Larry Peterson, Tom Anderson, David Culler, Timothy Roscoe |
planetlab |
| Feb 15 | Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet David D. Clark, John Wroclawski, Karen R. Sollins, Robert Braden |
internet tussles |
| Learning from PlanetLab Thomas Anderson, Timothy Roscoe |
planetlab lessons | |
| Feb 20 | The Click Modular Router Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, Benjie Chen, John Jannotti, M. Frans Kaashoek |
click |
| Mar 1 | Resilient Overlay Networks David Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris |
ron |
| Mar 8 | A Technical Approach to Net Neutrality Xiaowei Yang, Gene Tsudik, Xin Liu |
net neutrality |
| Mar 13 | The Revised ARPANET Routing Metric Atul Khanna, John Zinky |
routing metric |
| On inferring autonomous system relationships in the Internet Lixin Gao |
AS relationships | |
| Mar 27 | Network Support for IP Traceback Stefan Savage, David Wetherall, Anna Karlin, Tom Anderson |
IP traceback |
| Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, Charlie Rohrs |
xcp | |
| Mar 29 | On the Characteristics and Origins of Internet Flow Rates Yin Zhang, Lee Breslau, Vern Paxson, Scott Shenker Ryan and Machon |
internet flow rates [slides] |
| Apr 3` | NIRA: A New Internet Routing Architecture Xiaowei Yang Nick and Brad |
nira [slides] |
| Apr 3 | Estimation and Removal of Clock Skew from Network Delay Measurements Sue B. Moon, Paul Skelly, Don Towsley Elvita and Neha |
clock skew [slides] |
| Apr 5 | Loose Source Routing as a Mechanism for Traffic Policies Katerina Argyraki, David R. Cheriton | wrap [slides] |
| supplementary reading: TRIAD: A New Next-Generation Internet Architecture David R. Cheriton, Mark Gritter Rob, Thuan, and Shomir |
triad | |
| Apr 10 | Micropayments Revisited Silvio Micali, Ronald L. Rivest Charles and Michael |
micropayments [slides] |
| Apr 12 | Root cause analysis for long-lived TCP connections M. Siekkinen, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. Biersack, T. En-Najjary Justin, Mike, and Todd |
t-rat 2 |
| Apr 17 | Predicting Internet Network Distance with Coordinates-Based Approaches T.S. Eugene Ng, Hui Zhang |
gnp |
| Vivaldi: A Decentralized Network Coordinate System Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris Cristian |
vivaldi | |
| Apr 19 | A System for Authenticated Policy-Compliant Routing Barath Raghavan, Alex C. Snoeren Fatih and Song |
platypus [slides] |
| Apr 19 | Towards a Logic for Wide-Area Internet Routing Nick Feamster, Hari Balakrishnan Kunal and Pragya |
routing logic [slides] |
| Apr 24 | A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Wireless LAN Roaming Elias C. Efstathiou, George C. Polyzos Yee Lin and Adam |
wmash [slides] |
| Apr 26 | Project Report Exercise I Vibha |
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| May 1 | Project Report Exercise II Vibha |
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| May 3 | Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, Charlie Rohrs Neil (I mean it this time) |
xcp |
| May 8 | Clock Synchronization in Peer-to-Peer Networks Neha Gupta, Elvita Lobo |
clock sync |
| Policy-Based Loose Source Routing Kunal Jain, Pragya Jain, Fatih Kaya, Sukhyun Song |
src routing | |
| ROB: Loose Source Routing via Overlays for Boycotting Networks Thuan Huynh, Nick Kuilema, Rob Patro, Bradley Skaggs, Shomir Wilson |
ROB | |
| May 10 | Site Sponsored Internet Access Adam Phillippy, Charles Song, Yee Lin Tan, Michael Wasser |
net access |
| Real Time Network Analysis for Application Performance Debugging Ryan Blue, Todd Finkler, Machon Gregory, Michael Martin, Justin McCann |
rt net analysis | |
| May 11 | Project writeup due; Final distributed | |
| May 18 | Final due at 12:30 PM. (not midnight) | |