No reviews due.

Syllabus

As we may think (V. Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945)
A brief history of the Internet (Leiner et al)
On Distributed Communications Networks (Baran, 1962), IMP spec (BBN, 1976)

Networking review, Grand Challenges

Where to look for project ideas

Project interest micro-presentations

No reviews due.

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. A protocol for packet network intercommunication. IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 22 No. 5, May 1974.

David Clark, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols. Proc. SIGCOMM 1988.

Assignment 1 released (pdf)

J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark. End-to-End Arguments in System Design. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, Nov 1984, pp. 277-288

Congestion Avoidance and Control (Jacobson, SIGCOMM 1988) Note: You need not read the appendices of this paper.

Dah-Ming Chiu and Raj Jain. Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, June 1989, pp. 1-14.

Assignment 1 due 11:00 am CT

Why flow-completion time is the right metric (Dukkipati, Tech Rep 2005; CCR 2006)

Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion (Briscoe, CCR April 2007)

Fair Queueing (Demers et al, SIGCOMM 1989), CoDel (Nichols and Jacobson, ACM Queue 2012), Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks (Katabi et al, SIGCOMM 2002)

DCTCP (Alizadeh et al, SIGCOMM 2010)

PCC (Dong et al, NSDI 2015), pFabric (Alizadeh et al., SIGCOMM'13), QUIC

No required reading

Project proposals due 11:00 am CT by email to instructor (instructions)

50-Gb/s IP Router (Partridge et al., ToN 1998)

Tag Switching Architecture Overview (Rekhter, Davie, Rosen, Swallow, Farinacci, Katz, 1997), RouteBricks (Dobrescu, SOSP 2009), PacketShader (Han, SIGCOMM 2010)

TeXCP (Kandula, SIGCOMM 2005)

DEFO (Hartert et al, SIGCOMM 2015)

OpenFlow (McKeown et al, 2008)

Fabric: A Retrospective on Evolving SDN (Casado et al, HotSDN 2012)

Recommended, but no review: The Future of Networking (Shenker, ONS 2011)

Routing Control Platform (Caesar, NSDI 2005), NOX (Gude, CCR 2008), ONIX (Koponen, OSDI 2010)

B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN (Jain et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

SWAN (Hong, SIGCOMM 2013), Ethane (Casado, SIGCOMM 2007), SoftRAN (Gudipati, HotSDN 2013)

BGP routing policies in ISP networks (Caesar and Rexford, IEEE Network Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005)

Anatomy of a Large European IXP (Ager et al., SIGCOMM 2012)

Espresso (Yap et al, SIGCOMM 2017), InterTubes (Durairajan et al, SIGCOMM 2015), 10 lessons from 10 years (Roughan, JSAC 2011)

Propane (Beckett et al, SIGCOMM 2016)

Pyretic (Reich et al, ;login: 2013), PGA (Prakash et al, SIGCOMM 2015), Abstractions for Network Update (Foster et al, SIGCOMM 2012)

Evolve or Die (Govindan et al, SIGCOMM 2016)

End-to-End Routing Behavior (Paxson, SIGCOMM 1996), End-to-End Effects (Savage et al, SIGCOMM 1999), DDC (Liu, NSDI 2013), Failure-Carrying Packets (Lakshminarayanan, SIGCOMM 2007), Consensus Routing (John, NSDI 2008), R-BGP (Kushman, NSDI 2007)

Competing agents

Selfish routing in Internet-like environments (Qiu, SIGCOMM 2003)

Stable Paths Problem (Griffin, ToN 2002), Selfish Routing (Roughgarden, JACM 2002)

How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? (Goldberg, SIGCOMM 2010)

Survey of BGP security (Butler, Proc IEEE, 2010), Prefix Hijacking and Interception (Ballani, SIGCOMM 2007), Pretty Good BGP (Karlin, Computer Networks, 2008), Listen and Whisper (Subramanian, NSDI 2004)

Data center network architecture

Scalable, Commodity DC Net Arch (Al Fares et al, SIGCOMM 2008)

VL2 (Greenberg et al, SIGCOMM 2009), PortLand (Mysore et al, SIGCOMM 2009), BCube (Guo et al, SIGCOMM 2009), Jellyfish (Singla et al, NSDI 2012)

Tail at Scale (Dean and Barroso, CACM Feb 2013), Low Latency via Redundancy (Vulimiri et al, CoNEXT 2013), Scaling Memcache at Facebook (Nishtala et al., NSDI 2013), Speeding up request-response workflows (Jalaparti et al, SIGCOMM 2013)

Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant Datacenters (Koponen et al, NSDI 2014)

Assignment 2 released (pdf)

A Case for a Coordinated Internet Video Control Plane (Liu et al, SIGCOMM 2012)

Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement (Dobrian, SIGCOMM 2011), Experiences with CoralCDN: A Five-Year Operational View (Freedman, NSDI 2010), BitTorrent incentives (Levin, SIGCOMM 2008)

Towards a comprehensive picture of the Great Firewall's DNS censorship (Anonymous, FOCI 2014)

The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection (Anonymous, CCR 2011; see also public review and presentation), AdTag (Callejo et al, HotNets 2017), An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks (Wang, Qian, Xu, Mao, Zhang, SIGCOMM 2011), Internet Inter-Domain Traffic (Labovitz, SIGCOMM 2010), California Fault Lines (Turner, SIGCOMM 2010), Delayed Internet Routing Convergence (Labovitz, ToN 2001), Impact of Routing Events (Wang, SIGCOMM 2006), Reverse traceroute (Katz-Bassett, NSDI 2010), Broadband Internet performance: a view from the gateway (Sundaresan, SIGCOMM 2011)

Assignment 2 due Friday 11:00 am CT

E2 (Palkar et al, SOSP 2015)

Recursive SDN (McCauley et al, CCR 2016), OpenBox (Bremler-Barr et al, SIGCOMM 2016)

Packet Transactions (Sivaraman et al, SIGCOMM 2016)

NetChain (Jin et al, NSDI 2018), P4 (Bosshart et al, CCR July 2014)

Networks should run themselves (Feamster, Rexford, 2018)