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):
- Project name & team
- Goals & key ideas
- Issues addressed / pending
- 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.