Schedule & Readings

This schedule may change slightly as the quarter proceeds.
Required readings are tagged as Background , Question , or Review .


Week 1 – Introduction & Measurement Strategies

Thu 01/04 — Course Introduction | Strategies

Presenter: F. Bustamante
Slides: Canvas

Readings

  • V. Paxson, “Strategies for Sound Internet Measurements,” IMC 2004 — Background
  • V. Bajpai et al., “The Dagstuhl Beginners Guide to Reproducibility for Experimental Networking Research,” CCR Feb. 2019 / SIGCOMM 2019 — Background

Due before class

  • S. Keshav, “How to Read a Paper,” SIGCOMM CCR 2007

Week 2 – Internet Architecture & Measurement Tools and Platforms I

Tue 01/09 — Internet Architecture

Presenter: F. Bustamante
Slides: pdf

Readings

  • Ch. 2–4 from Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications, M. Crovella & B. Krishnamurthy, Wiley 2006 — Background
  • D. Clark, “The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols,” SIGCOMM 1988 — Background
  • C. Labovitz et al., “Internet Inter-domain Traffic,” SIGCOMM 2010 — Question

Thu 01/11 — Measurement Tools and Platforms I

Readings

  • RIPE NCC Staff, “RIPE Atlas: A Global Internet Measurement Network,” Internet Protocol Journal, Sep. 2015 — Background

    • Presenter: Kedar Thiagarajan
    • Slides: Canvas
  • R. Ramesh et al., “VPNalyzer: Systematic Investigation of the VPN Ecosystem,” NDSS 2022 — Review

    • Presenter: Caleb Wang
    • Slides: Canvas

Due

  • Form a project group

Week 3 – Measurement Tools and Platforms II & Internet Infrastructure

Tue 01/16 — Measurement Tools and Platforms II

Readings

  • Z. Durumeric et al., “ZMap: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and Its Security Applications,” USENIX Security 2013 — Question

    • Presenter: Justin Dong
    • Slides: Canvas
  • Eric Rye et al., “IPv6 Hitlist at Scale: Be Careful What You Wish For,” SIGCOMM 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Kim Roy
    • Slides: Canvas

Thu 01/18 — Internet Infrastructure

Readings

  • Matthieu Gouel et al., “IP Geolocation Database Stability and Implications for Network Research,” TMA 2021 — Review

    • Presenter: Zhang Wenxin
    • Slides: Canvas
  • Omar Darwich et al., “Replication: Towards a Publicly Available Internet-scale IP Geolocation Dataset,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Shubhanshi Gaudani
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 4 – Interdomain Routing & Protocols / Anycast

Tue 01/23 — Interdomain Routing

Readings

  • M. Caesar et al., “BGP Routing Policies in ISP Networks,” IEEE Network 19(6), 2005 — Question

    • Presenter: Jerry Cao
    • Slides: Canvas
  • S. Kastanakis et al., “Replication: 20 Years of Inferring Inter-domain Routing Policies,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Yicheng Zhang
    • Slides: [pdf]

Due

  • Project meeting with the instructor

Thu 01/25 — Protocols (Anycast & Friends)

Readings

  • C. Partridge et al., “Host Anycasting Service,” RFC 1546 — Question

  • R. Maheshwari, “TCP over IP Anycast – Pipe Dream or Reality?,” LinkedIn Blog, Sep. 9, 2015 — Question

    • Presenter: Daniel Zhao
    • Slides: Canvas
  • Minyuan Zhou et al., “Regional IP Anycast: Deployment, Performance and Potentials,” SIGCOMM 2023 — Review

    • Presenters: Jerry Cao & Justin Dong
    • Slides: Canvas

Due

  • Project proposal in Canvas

Week 5 – Peering, Topology & Midterm Presentations

Tue 01/30 — Peering and Topology

Readings

  • Romaine Fontugne et al., “The (thin) Bridges of AS Connectivity: Measuring Dependency using AS Hegemony,” PAM 2017 — Review

    • Presenter: John Li
    • Slides: Canvas
  • Bradley Huffaker et al., “On the Importance of Being an AS: An Approach to Country-Level AS Rankings,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: F. Bustamante
    • Slides: Canvas

Thu 02/01 — Project Midterm Presentations

Short project talks (4 slides):

  1. Project name & team
  2. Goals & key ideas
  3. Issues addressed / pending
  4. Updated milestones

Week 6 – Access Networks & Outages

Tue 02/06 — Access Networks

Readings

  • Zachary S. Bischof et al., “The Growing Importance of Being Always On — A First Look at the Reliability of Broadband Internet Access,” TPRC 2018 — Question

    • Presenter: Sorie Yillah
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Alexander Marder et al., “Access Denied: Assessing Physical Risks to Internet Access Networks,” USENIX Security 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Logan Mercadillo
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/08 — Outages

Readings

  • Alberto Dainotti et al., “Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship,” IMC 2011 — Question

    • Presenter: Sirasorn Tichachol
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Z. Bischof et al., “Destination Unreachable: Characterizing Internet Outages and Shutdowns,” SIGCOMM 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Alex Feng
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 7 – Replicability of Web Measurement & Centralization I

Tue 02/13 — Replicability of Web Measurement

Readings

  • C. Ardi et al., “The Prevalence of Single Sign-On on the Web: Towards the Next Generation of Web Content Measurement,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenters: Sengdao Inthavong & Julian Baldwin
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Nurullah Demir et al., “On the Similarity of Web Privacy Measurements Under Different Experimental Setups,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Emily Zhang
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/15 — Centralization & Decentralization I

Readings

  • K. Vermeulen et al., “The Central Problem with Distributed Content — Common CDN Deployments Centralize Traffic in a Risky Way,” HotNets 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Oscar Dong
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • R. Kumar et al., “Each at its Own Pace: Third-Party Dependency and Centralization Around the World,” SIGMETRICS 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: TBD
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 8 – Centralization II & Networked Systems as Witnesses

Tue 02/20 — Centralization & Decentralization II (IPFS)

Readings

  • Dennis Trautwein et al., “Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web,” SIGCOMM 2022 — Review

    • Presenter: Yan Bert
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Leonhard Balduf et al., “The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Hanhee Yang
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/22 — Networked Systems as Witnesses

Readings

  • Sana Asif et al., “Networked Systems as Witnesses — Association Between Content Demand, Human Mobility and an Infection Spread,” IMC 2021 — Question

    • Presenter: Alison Levin
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Xiao Song et al., “Inferring Changes in Daily Human Activity from Internet Response,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Benjamin Geduld
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 9 – Privacy, Security & Traffic Differentiation

Tue 02/27 — Privacy & Security

Readings

  • Eric Wustrow et al., “Internet Background Radiation Revisited,” IMC 2010 — Question

    • Presenter: Daniyal Latif
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Liz Izhikevich et al., “Cloud Watching: Understanding Attacks Against Cloud-Hosted Services,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Adam Chen
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/29 — Censorship & Traffic Differentiation

Readings

  • Fangfan Li et al., “A Large-scale Analysis of Deployed Traffic Differentiation Practices,” SIGCOMM 2019 — Review

    • Presenter: Runkai Qiu
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Zeinab Shmeis et al., “Localizing Traffic Differentiation,” IMC 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Kevin Hayes
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 10 – Censorship & Tampering II, PC Meeting & Finals

Tue 03/05 — Censorship & Tampering II

Readings

  • Arian Akhavan Niaki et al., “ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform,” IEEE S&P 2020 — Review

    • Presenter: Jay Park
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Ram Sundara Raman et al., “Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering,” SIGCOMM 2023 — Review

    • Presenter: Hong Zhou
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 03/07 — PC Meeting

Full-class program committee meeting to discuss and “accept/reject” the selected papers.


Thu 03/14 — Finals Week: Final Presentations

Time: 12–2 PM
Location: TBD

Final project presentations and Q&A.