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 — What Makes Internet-Scale Experimentation Hard?
Readings
- V. Paxson, Strategies for Sound Internet Measurements, IMC 2004 — Question
Thu 01/08 — The Questions We Ask
Readings
- M. Sanchez et al., Internet Inter-Domain Traffic Estimation for the Outsider, IMC 2014 — Question
Week 2 – Measurement Tools & Platforms
Tue 01/13 — Paths, Traceroute & Routing Surprises
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
Thu 01/15 — Platforms, Capture & Under-Adversary Measurement
Readings
- Z. Durumeric et al., Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services, SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- A. Männel et al., Lessons learned from operating a large network telescope, SIGCOMM 2025 — Question
Week 3 – Measurement Approaches & Datasets
Tue 01/20 — Mapping the Internet - ASes, Organizations, Operators, …
Readings
- C. Selmo et al., Learning AS-to-Organization Mappings with Borges, IMC 2025 — Review
Thu 01/22 — Mapping Internet Infrastructure
Readings
- K. Tiagarajan et al., The Aleph: Decoding DNS PTR Records With LLMs, CoNEXT 2025 — Background
- H. Rimlinger et al., GeoResolver: An Accurate, Scalable, and Explainable Geolocation Technique Using DNS Redirection, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
Week 4 – Experimental Approaches & Weighting Measurements
Tue 01/27 — Experiments, Treatments & Contextualized QoE
Readings
- Z. Bischof et al., Need, Want, Can Afford: Broadband Markets and the Behavior of Users, IMC 2014 — Question
- F. de Vocht et al., Conceptualizing Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Public Health, BMC Medical Research Methodology 21(32), 2021 — Background
Thu 01/29 — Bias & Latency Stability
Readings
- A. Efstratiou, On YouTube Search API Use in Research, IMC 2025 — Question
- P. Sermpezis et al., Bias in Internet Measurement Platforms, TMA 2023 — Background
Week 5 – Infrastructure
Tue 02/03 — Routing, Anycast & Traffic Engineering
Readings
- R. Hiesgen et al., A Detailed Measurement View on IPv6 Scanners and Their Adaption to BGP Signals, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- R. Hendriks et al., An Empirical Evaluation of Longitudinal Anycast Catchment Stability, PAM 2025 — Review
Thu 02/05 — Satellites
Readings
- Z. Liu et al., Vivisecting Starlink Throughput, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- Z. Zhao et al., Measuring the OneWeb Satellite Network, TMA 2025 — Review
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
- C. Deccio and B. Tessem, On Aggressive Negative Caching in DNS Resolvers, TMA 2025 — Review
Thu 02/12 — Midterm Presentations
In class:
Short presentations + Q&A.
Week 7 – Web Ecosystem
Tue 02/17 — Web Crawling, Refusal
Readings
- E. Lieu et al., Somesite I Used to Crawl: Protecting Content Creators From AI Crawlers, IMC 2025 — Review
- M. Ansar et al., Web Crawl Refusals: Insights From Common Crawl, PAM 2025 — Background
Thu 02/19 — Cookies & Fingerprinting
Readings
- M. Zollner et al., A First Look at Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State, PAM 2025 — Review
- E. Luo et al., Canvassing the Fingerprinters, IMC 2025 — Review
Week 8 – Video & Other Content Delivery
Tue 02/24 — Application-Layer Performance
Readings
- M. Abdulla et al., Caching as Differentiation, SIGCOMM 2025 — Review
- Y. Wang et al., Games Are Not Equal, IMC 2025 — Review
Thu 02/26 — Decentralized Infra
Readings
- Y. Weil et al., An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network, CoNEXT 2025 — Review
- R. Shi et al., The Decentralization Dilemma: Performance Trade-Offs in IPFS and Breakpoints, IMC 2025 — Review
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
- F. Holzbauer et al., Tracking Internet Disruptions in Ukraine, IMC 2025 — Review
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
- B. Degen et al., From Scarcity to Opportunity: Abuse of the IPv4 Leasing Market, TMA 2025 — Review
Week 10 – Policy & Security | Wrap-Up
Tue 03/10 — Policy & Security
Readings
- Jens Frieß et al., ValidaTor: Domain Validation over Tor, NSDI 2025 — Review
- 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
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.