Calendar
Week 1
09/20 — Course introduction | Reading papers and writing reviews
Readings
- How to Read A Paper, S. Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 37(3), 2007
- Writing reviews for systems conferences, T. Roscoe, Written for the SOSP Shadow PC, 2007
09/22 — Network design principles
Readings
- The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, D. Clark, SIGCOMM, 1988 (background)
- Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet, D. Clark et al., SIGCOMM, 2002
Presenter: Weili Wu
Due: Warm-up: Project proposal
Week 2
09/27 — DNS
Readings
- Putting DNS in Context, M. Allman, IMC, 2020 (background)
- Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to the World’s Queries,
K. Schomp et al., SIGCOMM, 2020
Presenter: Hanming Wang
Due: Reproduction – Form a team
09/29 — CDN
Readings
- Named Data Networking, L. Zhang et al., ACM SIGCOMM CCR 44(3), July 2014 (background)
- The ties that un-bind: decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale, M. Fayed et al., SIGCOMM, 2021
Presenter: Caleb Wang
Week 3
10/04 — TCP
Readings
- The Macroscopic Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm, M. Mathis, et al., ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 27(3), 1997 (background)
- Revisiting TCP congestion control throughput models and fairness properties at scale, A. Phillip et al., IMC, 2021
Presenter: Richard Jo
10/06 — Congestion Control (Dr. Esteban Carisimo)
Readings
- On the Future of Congestion Control for the Public Internet, L. Brown et al., Hotnets, 2020 (background)
- Classic meets modern: a pragmatic learning-based congestion control for the Internet, S. Abbasloo et al., SIGCOMM, 2020
Presenter: Kedar Thiagarajan
Due: Warm-up: Final report | Reproduction – Paper selection/project proposal
Week 4
10/11 — Congestion Control
Readings
- Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) S. Shalunov, et al., , RFC 6817 (Experimental), 2012 (background)
- PCC Proteus: Scavenger Transport and Beyond, T. Meng et al., SIGCOMM, 2020 (video)
Presenter: Junyu Deng
10/13 — Off day
Week 5
10/18 — Autonomous Systems
Readings
- Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination, L. Gao and J. Rexford, SIGMETRICS, 2000 (background)
- The parallel lives of autonomous systems: ASN allocations vs. BGP, E. Nemmi et al., IMC, 2021 (video)
Presenter: Yanzhi Li
10/20 — Topology
Readings
- Multipath tracing with Paris traceroute, B. Augustin et al., E2EMON, 2007 (background)
- Diamond-Miner: Comprehensive Discovery of the Internet’s Topology Diamonds, K. Vermeulen et al., NSDI, 2020
Presenter: Jacob Platnick
Week 6
10/25 — (Fabián at IMC 2022)
10/27 — SDN
Readings
- Onix: A Distributed Control Platform for Large-scale Production Networks, T. Koponen et al., OSDI, 2010 (background)
- Orion: Google’s Software-Defined Networking Control Plane, A.D. Ferguson et al., NSDI, 2021
Presenter: Umang Dhandhania
Due: Reproduction – Midpoint report
Week 7
11/01 — Cloud Internet
Readings
- Internet Inter-domain Traffic, C. Labovitz et al., , SIGCOMM, 2010 (background)
- Cloud Provider Connectivity in the Flat Internet, T. Arnold et al., IMC, 2020
Presenter: Nick Wanninger
11/03 — Anycast
Readings
- Internet Anycast: Performance, Problems, and Potential, Z. Li et al., SIGCOMM, 2018 (background)
- Anycast in Context: A Tale of Two Systems, T. Koch et al., SIGCOMM, 2021
Presenter: Wenhao Deng
Week 8
11/08 — Multipath and new architectures
Readings
- Architecting for Innovation, T. Koponen et al, ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 41(3), 2011 (background)
- Deployment and Scalability of an Inter-Domain Multi-Path Routing Infrastructure, C. Krähenbühl et al., CoNEXT, 2021
Presenter: Wenhan Deng
11/10 — SoL
Readings
- Why Is the Internet so Slow?!, I. Bozkurt et al., PAM, 2017 (background)
- cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider, D. Bhattacherjee et al., NSDI, 2022
Presenter: Abel Yagubyan
Week 9
11/15 — LEO
Readings
- Gearing up for the 21st century space race, D. Bhattacherjee et al., HotNets, 2018 (background)
- L2D2: low latency distributed downlink for LEO satellites, D. Vasisht et al., SIGCOMM, 2021
Presenter: Damani Phillip
11/17 — Roaming
Readings
- A first look at the IP eXchange ecosystem, A. Lutu et al., ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 50(4), 2020 (background)
- Insights from operating an IP exchange provider, A. Lutu et al., SIGCOMM, 2021
Presenter: Siting Ma
Week 10
11/22 — Cellular and Mobile
Readings
- Experience: Implications of Roaming in Europe, A-M. Mandalari et al., MobiCom, 2018 (background)
- Democratizing cellular access with cellbricks, Z. Luo et al., SIGCOMM, 2021
Presenter: Yanxin Xiang
Due: Reproduction – Final report
11/24 — Thanksgiving
Week 10
11/29 — Censorship
Readings
- The dining cryptographers problem: Unconditional sender and recipient untraceability, D. Chau, Journal of Cryptology, 1(1):65–75, 1988 (background)
- Spectrum: High-bandwidth Anonymous Broadcast, Z. Newman et al., NSDI, 2021
Presenter: Kevin McAfee
12/01 — Privacy
Readings
- Tracing Cross Border Web Tracking C. Iordanou et al., IMC, 2018 (background)
- Measuring the Emergence of Consent Management on the Web, M. Hils et al., IMC, 2020
Presenter: Chenzhao Guo