Calendar
Week 1
01/03 — Northwestern’s Monday / no class
01/05 — Course introduction | Strategies
Readings
- Strategies For Sound Internet Measurements, V. Paxson, IMC 2004
[su_label type=“default” class=""]Background[/su_label]
- The Dagstuhl Beginners Guide to Reproducibility for Experimental Networking Research, V. Bajpai et al., CCR Feb. 2019/SIGCOMM 2019 [su_label type=“default” class=""]Background[/su_label]
Due: Read on your own:
Week 2
01/10 — Internet Architecture
Readings
- Chap. 2-4 from Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications, M. Crovella and B. Krishnamurthy. J. Wlikey et Sons, 2006 [su_label type=“default” class=""]Background[/su_label]
- The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, D. Clark, SIGCOMM, 1988 [su_label type=“default” class=""]Background[/su_label]
- Internet Inter-domain Traffic, C. Labovitz et al., SIGCOMM, 2010 [su_label type=“default” class=""]Background[/su_label]
Due: Form a group
01/12 — Measurement tools
Readings
- ZMap: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and Its Security Applications, Z. Durumeric et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2013 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label] Presenter: Esteban Carisimo| Slides: [pdf]
- Internet-scale reverse traceroute, K. Vermeulen et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Caleb Wang | Slides: [pdf]
Week 3
01/17 — Additional probes and measurements
Readings
- On the Impact of Route Monitor Selection, Y. Zhang et al., IMC 2007 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Fabián E. Bustamante| Slides: [pdf]
- Mitigating Sampling Error when Measuring Internet Client IPv6 Capabilities, S. Zander et al., IMC 2012 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Fabián E. Bustamante| Slides: [pdf]
Due: Project meeting with the instructor
01/19 — Measurement tools
Readings
- Pushing the Boundaries with bdrmapIT: Mapping Router Ownership at Internet Scale, A. Marder et al., IMC 2018 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Natalie Griarte Brewster Slides: [pdf]
- Towards identifying networks with Internet clients using public data, W. Jiang et al., IMC 2021 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Jack Sauser | Slides: [pdf]
Due: Project proposal in Canvas
Week 4
01/24 — Measurement platforms
Readings
- RIPE Atlas: A Global Internet Measurement Network, RIPE NCC Staff, The Internet Protocol Journal, Sep. 2015 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Yuhan Shi | Slides: [pdf]
- Discovering Obscure Looking Glass Sites on the Web to Facilitate Internet Measurement Research, S. Zhuang et al., CoNEXT 2021 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Jack Sauser | Slides: [pdf]
01/26 — Internet Infrastructure
Readings
- ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering, Z. Zhong et al., SIGCOMM 2021 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Jun Li | Slides: [pdf]
- Cross-layer Diagnosis of Optical Backbone Failures, Y. Zhang et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Asher Zhang | Slides: [pdf]
Week 5
01/31 — Internet Infrastructure
Readings
- O Peer, Where Art Thou? Uncovering Remote Peering Interconnections at IXPs, G. Nomikos et al., IMC 2018 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Shaoming Xu | Slides: [pdf]
- iGDB: Connecting the Physical and Logical Layers of the Internet, S. Anderson et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Raghul Ravi | Slides: [pdf]
02/02 — Project midterm presentation
Week 6
02/07 — Topology and peering
Readings
- PEERING: virtualizing BGP at the edge for research, B. Schlinker et al., CoNEXT 2019 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Caleb Wang | Slides: [pdf]
- Detecting Peering Infrastructure Outages in the Wild, V. Giotsas et al., SIGCOMM 2017 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Radek Chlebicki | Slides: [pdf]
02/09 — Content distribution
Readings
- Leveraging interconnections for performance: the serving infrastructure of a large CDN, F. Wolhfart et al., SIGCOMM 2018 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Ying Zhang | Slides: [pdf]
- The best of both worlds: high availability CDN routing without compromising control, J. Zhu et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Rashna Kumar | Slides: [pdf]
Week 7
02/14 — Traffic
Readings
- Internet Inter-Domain Traffic Estimation for the Outsider, M. Sanchez et al., IMC 2014 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Asher Zhang | Slides: [pdf]
- Towards a traffic map of the Internet: Connecting the dots between popular services and users, T. Koch et al., HotNets 2021 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Kedar Thiagarajan | Slides: [pdf]
02/16 — Applications
Readings
- Five Years at the Edge: Watching Internet from the ISP Network, M. Trevisan et al., CoNEXT 2018 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Zafir Anzari | Slides: [pdf]
- Transparent Forwarders: An Unnoticed Component of the Open DNS Infrastructure, M. Nawrocki et al., CoNEXT 2021 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Kedar Thiagarajan | Slides: [pdf]
Week 8
02/21 — Applications
Readings
- A World Wide View of Browsing the World Wide Web, K. Ruth et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Natalie Griarte Brewster | Slides: [pdf]
- Are We Ready for Metaverse? A Measurement Study of Social Virtual Reality Platforms, R. Cheng et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Max Xu | Slides: [pdf]
02/23 — Security
Readings
- Analysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem, Z. Durumeric et al., IMC 2013 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Ying Zhang | Slides: [pdf]
- An End-to-End Measurement of Certificate Revocation in the Web’s PKI, Y. Liu et al., IMC 2015 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Rashna Kumar | Slides: [pdf]
Week 9
02/28 — Ads and privacy
Readings
- Alternative to third-party cookies: Investigating persistent PII leakage-based web tracking, H.Dao et al., CoNEXT 2021 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Zafir Ansari | Slides: [pdf]
- Measuring UID Smuggling in the Wild, A. Randall et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Radek Chlebicki | Slides: [pdf]
03/02 — Ads and privacy
Readings
- Towards a tectonic traffic shift?: investigating Apple’s new relay network, P. Sattler al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Shaoming Xu | Slides: [pdf]
- Measurement and Analysis of Implied Identity in Ad Delivery Optimization, L. Kaplan et al., IMC 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Max Xu | Slides: [pdf]
Week 10
03/07 — Censorship
Readings
- Analysis of country-wide internet outages caused by censorship, A. Dainotti et al., IMC 2011 [su_label type=“success” class=""]Question[/su_label]
Presenter: Yuhan Shi | Slides: [pdf]
- Network Measurement Methods for Locating and Examining Censorship, S. Raman et al., CoNEXT 2022 [su_label type=“important” class=""]Review[/su_label]
Presenter: Raghul Ravi | Slides: [pdf]