Calendar
Week 1
09/24 — 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
- How to give a great research talk, S. Peyton Jones et al., SIGPLAN Notices 28(11), Nov 1993 (The updated slides and the talk are better)
09/26 — Network design and architecture
Readings
- The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, D. Clark, SIGCOMM, 1988 (background)
- Enabling a permanent revolution in Internet architecture, J. McCouley et al., SIGCOMM, 2019
Presenter: Fabián
Due: Warm-up: Project proposal
Week 2
10/01 — The link layer
Readings
- The Internet of Bio-NanoThings, I. F. Akyildiz et al., IEEE Communcations Magazine, March 2015 (Background)
- Towards Practical and Scalable Molecular Networks, J. Wang et al., SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Fabián
Due: Reproduction – Form a team
10/03 — The link layer
Readings
- Need, Want, Can Afford: Broadband Markets and the Behavior of Users, Z. Bischof et al., IMC 2014 (background)
- The Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing US Internet Access Inequities, H. Manda et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Fabián
Week 3
10/08 — The network layer
Readings
- Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination, L. Gao and J. Rexford, SIGMETRICS, 2000 (background)
- The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms, T. Alfroy et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Santiago Klein
10/10 — Lecture cancelled
Due: Warm-up: Final report | Reproduction – Paper selection/project proposal
Week 4
10/15 — The network layer
Readings
- The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks, N. Feamster et al., SIGCOMM CCR. 44(2), 2014 (background)
- A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN, A. Krentsel et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Oscar Dong
10/17 — Reproducibility project proposal presentation
Week 5
10/22 — The network layer
Readings
- Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric Steering Oceans of Content to the World, B. Schlinker et al., SIGCOMM 2017 (background)
- PAINTER: Ingress Traffic Engineering and Routing for Enterprise Cloud Networks, T. Koch et al., , SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Arthur Hu
10/24 — Congestion control
Readings
- Beyond Jain’s Fairness Index: Setting the Bar For The Deployment of Congestion Control Algorithms, R. Ware et al., HotNets 2019 (background)
- Principles for Internet Congestion Management, L. Brown et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Suting Chen
Week 6
10/29 — Congestion control
Readings
- Modeling BBR’s Interactions with Loss-Based Congestion Control, R. Ware et al, IMC 2019(background)
- Prudentia: Findings of an Internet Fairness Watchdog, A. Philip et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Santiago Klein
10/31 — Transport layer
Readings
- TCP’s initial window—deployment in the wild and its impact on performance, (background) J. Ruth et al., IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 16, 2 (2019)
- SUSS: Improving TCP Performance by Speeding Up Slow-Start, M. Arghavani et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Suting Chen
Due: Reproduction – Midpoint report
Week 7
11/05 — Transport layer
Readings
- IPv6 Flow Label Specification, S. Amante et al., RFC 6437, 2011(background)
- Improving Network Availability with Protective ReRoute, D. Whetherall et al., SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Ying Zhang
11/07 — DNS
Readings
- Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to the World’s Queries, K. Schomp et al., SIGCOMM 2020 (background)
- Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-scale, J. Larish et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Arthur Hu
Week 8
11/12 — Gaming
Readings
- Playout delay of TV signals: measurement system design, validation and results , W. Kooij et al., ACM TVX 14, 2014 (background)
- Ekho: Synchronizing cloud gaming media across multiple endpoints, P. Hamadanian et al., SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Oscar Dong
11/14 — Video and QoE
Readings
- Video stream quality impacts viewer behavior: inferring causality using quasi-experimental designs, S. Krishnan et al., IMC 2012 (background)
- SODA: An Adaptive Bitrate Controller for Consistent High-Quality Video Streaming, T. Chen et al., SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Ying Zhang
Week 9
11/19 — Video traffic
Readings
- Network Characteristics of Video Streaming Traffic, A. Rao et al., CoNEXT 2011 (background)
- Sammy: smoothing video traffic to be a friendly internet neighbor, B. Spang et al., SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Suting Chen
11/21 — Privacy and Censorship
Readings
- Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies, K. Bock et al., CCS 2019 (background)
- Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering, R. Raman et al., SIGCOMM 2023
Presenter: Santiago Klein
Week 10
11/26 — Security
Readings
- Detection, classification, and analysis of inter-domain traffic with spoofed source IP addresses, F. Lichtblau et al., IMC 2017 (background)
- Bad Packets Come Back, Worse Ones Don’t, P. Gigis et al., SIGCOMM 2024,
Presenter: Arthur Hu
Due: Reproduction – Final report
11/28 — Thanksgiving
Week 10
12/03 — Network design and architecture
Readings
- Revitalizing the public Internet by making it extensible, H. Balakrishna et al., SIGCOMM CCR, 51(2), 2021 (background)
- An Architecture For Edge Networking Services, L. Brown, SIGCOMM 2024
Presenter: Ying Zhang