Schedule & Readings

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


Week 1 – Introduction & Internet Architecture

Tue 01/07 — Course Introduction

Before class

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

Thu 01/09 — Internet Architecture — A Brief Overview

Readings

  • C. Labovitz et al., “Internet Inter-domain Traffic,” SIGCOMM 2010 — Question

Week 2 – Questions & Measurement Platforms I

Tue 01/14 — Internet-Scale Experimentation — The Questions

Readings

  • V. Paxson, “Strategies for Sound Internet Measurements,” IMC 2004 — Background

Thu 01/16 — Measurement Tools and Platforms I

Readings

  • B. Augustin et al., “Avoiding Traceroute Anomalies with Paris Traceroute,” IMC 2006 — Question

Week 3 – Measurement Platforms II & Datasets

Tue 01/21 — Measurement Tools and Platforms II

Readings

  • M. Tashiro et al., “Metis: Selecting Diverse Atlas Vantage Points,” TMA 2022 — Question

Thu 01/23 — Measurement Approaches and Datasets

Readings

  • R. Fontugne et al., “The Wisdom of the Measurement Crowd: Building the Internet Yellow Pages a Knowledge Graph for the Internet,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 4 – Experimental Approaches & A/B Testing

Tue 01/28 — Experimental Approaches I

Readings

  • R. Kohavi and R. Longbotham, “Online Controlled Experiments and A/B Testing,” Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, 2017 — Background
  • Hebin Yu et al., “Magpie: Improving the Efficiency of A/B Tests for Large Scale Video-on-Demand Systems,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Bowen Cheng
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 01/30 — Experimental Approaches II

Readings

  • F. de Vocht et al., “Conceptualizing Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Public Health,” BMC Medical Research Methodology 21(32), 2021 — Background
  • Z. Bischof et al., “Need, Want, Can Afford: Broadband Markets and the Behavior of Users,” IMC 2014 — Question
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]

Due

  • Warm-up project

Week 5 – Weighting Your Measurements

Tue 02/04 — Top Lists & Sampling

Readings

  • Q. Scheitle et al., “A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists,” IMC 2018 — Background
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Q. Xie and F. Li, “Crawling to the Top: An Empirical Evaluation of Top List Use,” PAM 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Yang Qian
    • Slides: [pdf]

Due

  • Reproducibility project proposal

Thu 02/06 — Weighting & Inference

Readings

  • M. Sanchez et al., “Inter-Domain Traffic Estimation for the Outsider,” IMC 2014 — Question
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • L. Salamatian et al., “What’s in the Dataset? Unboxing the APNIC User Populations,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Santiago Klein
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 6 – Infrastructure: IXPs & Long-Haul

Tue 02/11 — Infrastructure I — IXPs

Readings

  • L. Prehn et al., “Peering Only? Analyzing the Reachability Benefits of Joining Large IXPs Today,” PAM 2022 — Question
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • M. Tashiro et al., “Following the Data Trail: An Analysis of IXP Dependencies,” PAM 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Christian Montgomery
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/13 — Infrastructure II — Submarine Cables & Long-Haul

Readings

  • S. Liu et al., “Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind – A User-View on the Criticality of the Submarine Cable Network,” IMC 2020 — Question
    • Presenter: Fabian Bustamante
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • E. Carisimo et al., “A Hop Away from Everywhere: A View of the Intercontinental Long-Haul Infrastructure,” SIGMETRICS 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Will Cho
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 7 – Resilience & DNS

Tue 02/18 — Resilience

Readings

  • A. Marder et al., “Access Denied: Assessing Physical Risks to Internet Access Networks,” USENIX Security 2023 — Review
    • Student presenter: Seth Carlson
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • A. Stevens, “Can LEO Satellites Enhance the Resilience of Internet to Multi-Hazard Risks?,” PAM 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Ying Zhang
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/20 — DNS

Readings

  • F. Steurer et al., “The Roots Go Deep: Measuring ‘.’ Under Change,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Siren Wang
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • J. Lee et al., “Measuring DNS-over-HTTPS Downgrades: Prevalence, Techniques, and Bypass Strategies,” CoNEXT 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Shuyi Han
    • Slides: [pdf]

Due

  • Reproducibility project check-in

Week 8 – Web & Video

Tue 02/25 — Web

Readings

  • M. Lin et al., “Browsing without Third-Party Cookies: What Do You See?,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Rina Dema
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • D. Kuchhal et al., “Whatcha Lookin’ At: Investigating Third-Party Web Content in Popular Android Apps,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Hongyuan Xu
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 02/27 — Video

Readings

  • R. Cheng et al., “A First Look at Immersive Telepresence on Apple Vision Pro,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Isaac Sun
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • Y. Wang et al., “Characterizing User Platforms for Video Streaming in Broadband Networks,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Ying Zhang
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 9 – Networks in Context & Policy

Tue 03/04 — Networks in Context

Readings

  • S. Basak et al., “CosmicDance: Measuring Low Earth Orbital Shifts Due to Solar Radiations,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Samarth Arul
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • A. Zanella et al., “Characterizing, Modeling and Exploiting the Mobile Demand Footprint of Large Public Protests,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Benjamin Spinrad
    • Slides: [pdf]

Thu 03/06 — Privacy / Policy

Readings

  • S. McQuistin et al., “A First Look at Related Website Sets,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Noah Hendlish
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • R. Kumar et al., “Of Choices and Control – A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Aissata Diallo
    • Slides: [pdf]

Week 10 – Policy, PC Meeting & Finals

Mon 03/11 — Policy & Platforms

Readings

  • P. Bouchaud et al., “Beyond the Guidelines: Assessing Meta’s Political Ad Moderation in the EU,” IMC 2024 (short paper) — Review
    • Student presenter: Tasneem Abdalla
    • Slides: [pdf]
  • O. Figueira et al., “DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents,” IMC 2024 — Review
    • Student presenter: Leanne He Lian
    • Slides: [pdf]

Due

  • Reproducibility project report

Thu 03/13 — PC Meeting

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


Finals Week — Mon 03/17

Time: 12–2 PM
Location: TBD

Final project presentations and Q&A.