Schedule & Readings
This schedule may change slightly as the quarter proceeds.
Required readings are tagged as Background
, Question
, or Review
.
Week 1 – Overview & Questions
Tue 01/06 — Internet-Scale Experimentation
Readings
- S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, SIGCOMM CCR 2007 - Background
- V. Paxson, Strategies for Sound Internet Measurements, IMC 2004 — Background
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: pdf
Thu 01/08 — Internet Architecture - A Brief Overview
Readings
- C. Labovitz et al., Internet Inter-domain Traffic, SIGCOMM 2010 — Background
- P. Gigis et al., Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants’ Off-Nets, SIGCOMM 2021 — Question
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 2 – Measurement Tools & Platforms
Tue 01/13 — Measurement Tools
Readings
- B. Augustin et al., Avoiding Traceroute Anomalies with Paris Traceroute, IMC 2006 — Background
- E. Fazzion et al., RemapRoute: Local Remapping of Internet Path Changes, IMC 2025 (short) — Question
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 01/15 — Measurement Platforms
Readings
- V. Bajpai and J. Schönwälder, A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 17(3), 2015 Background
- Z. Durumeric et al., Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services, SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 3 – Measurement Approaches & Datasets
Tue 01/20 — Measurement Approaches & Datasets
Readings
- A. Männel et al., Lessons learned from operating a large network telescope, SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- R. Fontugne et al., The Wisdom of the Measurement Crowd: Building the Internet Yellow Pages a Knowledge Graph for the Internet,, IMC 2024 — Background
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 01/22 — Measurement Approaches & Datasets
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: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 4 – Weigthing and Inferences
Tue 01/27 — Weighting and Biases
Readings
- Q. Scheitle et al., A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists, IMC 2018 — Background
- L. Salamatian et al., What’s in the Dataset? Unboxing the APNIC User Populations, IMC 2024 — Question
- Presenter: Fabián
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 01/29 — Weighting and Biases
Readings
P. Sermpezis et al., Bias in Internet Measurement Platforms, TMA 2023 — Question
- Student presenter: Daniel Jang
- Slides: [pdf]
A. Efstratiou, On YouTube Search API Use in Research, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Liam Strand
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 5 – Infrastructure
Tue 02/03 — Mapping Infrastructure
Readings
K. Tiagarajan et al., The Aleph: Decoding DNS PTR Records With LLMs, CoNEXT 2025 — Question
- Student presenter: TBD
- Slides: [pdf]
C. Selmo et al., Learning AS-to-Organization Mappings with Borges, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Anthony Wang
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 02/05 — Underwater and Outer Space
Readings
Z. Liu et al., Vivisecting Starlink Throughput, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Zacaria Nouri
- Slides: [pdf]
C. Wang et al., Calypso’s Voyage: Charting Traceroute Paths Through Submarine Cables, (long vesion) SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Liam Strand
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 6 – Midterm & DNS
Tue 02/10 — DNS Behavior & Resolver Logic
Readings
P. Sattler et al., ECSeptional DNS Data: Evaluating Nameserver ECS Deployments with Response-Aware Scanning, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: TBD
- Slides: [pdf]
C. Deccio and B. Tessem, On Aggressive Negative Caching in DNS Resolvers, TMA 2025 — Question
- Student presenter: Harut Sargsyan
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 02/12 — Midterm Presentations
In class:
Short presentations + Q&A.
Week 7 – Web Ecosystem
Tue 02/17 — Web Crawling, Refusal
Readings
E. Liu et al., Somesite I Used to Crawl: Protecting Content Creators From AI Crawlers, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Ryan Poon
- Slides: [pdf]
M. Ansar et al., Web Crawl Refusals: Insights From Common Crawl, PAM 2025 — Question
- Student presenter: TBD
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 02/19 — Cookies & Fingerprinting
Readings
M. Zollner et al., A First Look at Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State, PAM 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Emma Baumgardner
- Slides: [pdf]
E. Luo et al., Canvassing the Fingerprinters: Characterizing Canvas Fingerprinting Use Across the Web, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Lianhao Zheng
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 8 – Video & Other Content Delivery
Tue 02/24 — Application-Layer Performance
Readings
M. Abdulla et al., Edge Caching as Differentiation, SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Daniel Jang
- Slides: [pdf]
Y. Wang et al., Games Are Not Equal: Classifying Cloud Gaming Contexts for Effective User Experience Measurement, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Ludi Yu
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 02/26 — Decentralized Infra
Readings
Y. Weil et al., An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Charles Kozel
- Slides: [pdf]
R. Shi et al., The Decentralization Dilemma: Performance Trade-Offs in IPFS and Breakpoints, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Zacaria Nouri
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 9 – Networks in Context
Tue 03/03 — Networks as Witnesses of Society
Readings
L. Bertholdo et al., Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event (30 Days of Flooding), PAM 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Anthony Wang
- Slides: [pdf]
F. Holzbauer et al., Tracking Internet Disruptions in Ukraine: Insights from Three Years of Active Full Block Scans, IMC 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Charles Kozel
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 03/05 — Outages, Abuse & Platform Policy
Readings
F. Steurer et al., Catching Wind in a Net: Effects of the CrowdStrike Outage, TMA 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Mercy Muiruri
- Slides: [pdf]
B. Degen et al., From Scarcity to Opportunity: Abuse of the IPv4 Leasing Market, TMA 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Areg Aslanyan
- Slides: [pdf]
Week 10 – Policy & Security | Wrap-Up
Tue 03/10 — Policy & Security
Readings
Jens Frieß et al., ValidaTor: Domain Validation over Tor, NSDI 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Maxwell Chen
- Slides: [pdf]
D. Kondo et al., Who Did Not Implement Email Security Measures After Google’s New Email Sender Guidelines?: A Large-Scale Measurement Study, TMA 2025 — Review
- Student presenter: Andrew Li
- Slides: [pdf]
Thu 03/12 — PC Meeting
Students debate and decide “accepts” — SIGCOMM-style.
Finals Week
Tue 03/17 — Final Project Presentations
In class:
Reproducibility project talks.