Calendar
Most weeks have three papers and at least one of them short (~6 pages).
Week 1
01/03 — Course introduction | Reading papers and writing reviews
Readings
- How to Read A Paper, S. Keshav, SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) 2007
- Writing reviews for systems conferences, T. Roscoe, Written for the SOSP 2007 Shadow PC
01/05 — (short)
Readings
- Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion, I. Qazi et al., Proc. of HotNets 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Byungjin Jun
- Federated infrastructure: usage, patterns, and insights from “the people’s network”, D. Jagtap et al., Proc. of IMC 2021 video
Presenter: Fabián
Due: Form a group (01/07)
Week 2
01/10 — Network and systems reliability
Readings
- A nationwide study of cellular reliability: Measurement, analysis and enhancements, Y. Li et al., Proc. of SIGCOMM 2021 video
Presenter: TBD
- Characterizing and Improving the Reliability of Broadband Internet Access, Z. Bischof et al., Proc. of TPRC 2018
Presenter: Yan Xu
01/12 — (Topic TBD)
Readings
- Staying Alive: Connection Path Reselection at the Edge, R. Landa et al., Proc. of NSDI 2021 video
Presenter: Aman Khalid
Week 3
01/17 — MLK Day
01/19 — (short)
Readings
- Cloud Provider Connectivity in the Flat Internet, T. Arnold et al., Proc. of IMC 2020 video
Presenter: Hamming Wang
- Towards a traffic map of the Internet: Connecting the dots between popular services and users, T. Koch et al., Proc. of HotNets 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Weili Wu
Due: Project proposals (01/21)
Week 4
01/24 — (short)
Readings
- Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN, T. Böttger et al., SIGCOMM CCR, January 2018 (short)
Presenter: Rashna Kumar
01/26 — (short)
Readings
- Seven years in the life of hypergiants’ off-nets, P. Gigis et al., Proc. of SIGCOMM 2021 video
Presenter: Damani Philip
- Inferring Cloud Interconnections: Validation, Geolocation, and Routing Behavior, A. Marder et al., Proc. of PAM 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Jiaxiang Li
Week 5
01/31 — (short)
Readings
- Clouding up the Internet: how centralized is DNS traffic becoming?, G. Moura et al., Proc. of IMC 2020 (short) video
Presenter: Madison McClellan
- Third-party Service Dependencies and Centralization Around the World, R. Kumar et al., Under submission, 2021
Presenter: Rashna Kumar
02/02 — Project midterm presentations
Week 6
02/7 — Project midterm presentations
02/09 — Radical changes
Readings
- A public option for the core, Y. Harchol et al., Proc. of SIGCOMM 2020 video
Presenter: Zhaochen Bai
Week 7
02/14 — Security
Readings
- The Hijackers Guide To The Galaxy: Off-Path Taking Over Internet Resources, T. Dai et al., Proc. of USENIX Security 2021 video
Presenter: Michael Polinski
02/16 — (short)
Readings
- DDoS Hide & Seek: On the Effectiveness of a Booter Services Takedown, D. Kopp et al., Proc. of IMC 2019 (short) video
Presenter: Richard Jo
- Platforms in Everything: Analyzing Ground-Truth Data on the ANatomy and Economcis of Bullet-Proof Hosting, A. Noroozian et al., Proc. of USENIX Security 2019 video
Presenter: Zhaochen Bai
Week 8
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Readings
- Home is Where the Hijacking is: Understanding DNS Interception by Residential Routers, A. Randall et al., Proc. of IMC 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Kevin McAfee
02/23 — (short)
Readings
- Throttling Twitter: an emerging censorship technique in Russia, D. Xue et al., Proc. of IMC 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Xinran Han
- Bento: Safely bringing network function virtualization to Tor, M. Reininger et al., Proc. of SIGCOMM 2021 video
Presenter: Weili Wu
Week 9
02/28 — (short)
Readings
- Redesigning Data Centers for Renewable Energy, A. Agarwal et al., Proc. of HotNets 2021 video
Presenter: Medetkan Mamyrov
- Sustainable Computing on the Edge: A System Dynamics Perspective, B. Ramprasad et al., Proc. of HotMobile 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Damani Philip
03/02 — (short)
Readings
- Solar superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypsis, S. Jyothi, Proc. of SIGCOMM 2021 video
Presenter: Madison McClellan
- On the Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in the Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes, J. Mayer et al., Proc. of PAM 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Hanming Wang
Week 10
03/07 — (short)
Readings
- Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico, E. Showalter et al., Proc. of HotMobile 2021 (short) video
Presenter: Xinran Han
- Networked systems as witnesses: association between content demand, human mobility and an infection spread, S. Asif et al., Proc. of IMC 2021 video
Presenter: Chenzhao Guo