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

  • 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.