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

Thu 01/08 — The Questions We Ask

Readings


Week 2 – Measurement Tools & Platforms

Tue 01/13 — Paths, Traceroute & Routing Surprises

Readings

Thu 01/15 — Platforms, Capture & Under-Adversary Measurement

Readings


Week 3 – Measurement Approaches & Datasets

Tue 01/20 — Mapping the Internet - ASes, Organizations, Operators, …

Readings

Thu 01/22 — Mapping Internet Infrastructure

Readings


Week 4 – Experimental Approaches & Weighting Measurements

Tue 01/27 — Experiments, Treatments & Contextualized QoE

Readings

Thu 01/29 — Bias & Latency Stability

Readings


Week 5 – Infrastructure

Tue 02/03 — Routing, Anycast & Traffic Engineering

Readings

Thu 02/05 — Satellites

Readings


Week 6 – Midterm & DNS

Tue 02/10 — DNS Behavior & Resolver Logic

Readings

Thu 02/12 — Midterm Presentations

In class:
Short presentations + Q&A.


Week 7 – Web Ecosystem

Tue 02/17 — Web Crawling, Refusal

Readings

Thu 02/19 — Cookies & Fingerprinting

Readings


Week 8 – Video & Other Content Delivery

Tue 02/24 — Application-Layer Performance

Readings

Thu 02/26 — Decentralized Infra

Readings


Week 9 – Networks in Context

Tue 03/03 — Networks as Witnesses of Society

Readings

Thu 03/05 — Outages, Abuse & Platform Policy

Readings


Week 10 – Policy & Security | Wrap-Up

Tue 03/10 — Policy & Security

Readings

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.