There are no official texts for the course. As background, we suggest several texts:
Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:
The quizzes will be in-class, one near midterm and one near the end of the semester.
The project in 15-744 is an open-ended research project, done in groups of two. The project requires a proposal, a project status report, and a final report (both written and presented).
There will be a few problem sets assigned during the term that will constitute 25% of your grade. Problem sets will be a mix of theory and hands-on programming assignments. The homework grade also includes participation in the on-line discussion forum
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| Date | Reviewer | Topics | Notes | Readings |
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| Mon 01/14 | SS | Intro: History and context and packet switching. [pdf] [ppt] |
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| Part 1: Internetworking | ||||
| Wed 01/16 | SS | Internetworking: Architectural principles, names, addresses [pdf] [pptx] |
Read the End-to-End Arguments paper (Saltzer84) if you haven't seen it before. |
Design, Saltzer84 |
| Fri 01/18 | VV | Recitation - background material review (Vijay) [pdf] [ppt] |
Also see Review Slides from last year for more detailed slides of material covered this lecture. | |
| Mon 01/21 | SS | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
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| Wed 01/23 | Dongsu Han, Kaushik L. | Interdomain Routing [pdf] [pptx] |
Optional reading: Stability | Gao2001a, MITLec4Notes |
| Fri 01/25 | Vijay | Recitation - background material review: Transport [pdf] [ppt] |
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| Part 2: Resource Management | ||||
| Mon 01/28 | Bin Fan, Sue Hong | End-to-End Congestion Control [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional papers: BCCA01, TFRC00, TCPModeling98, CongestionManager99. | CJ89, VJ88 |
| Wed 01/30 | Anshul Gandhi, Fan Guo | Fair Queueing [pdf] [ppt] |
WFQ, CSFQ | |
| Mon 02/04 | Cody Hartwig, Wittawat T. | Router congestion control [pdf] [ppt] |
RED, XCP | |
| Wed 02/06 | SS | No lecture. Meetings about projects. |
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| Fri 02/08 | Vijay | ns-2 and tools [pdf] [ppt] |
ProblemSet1 Due, Project Proposal due sometime during 2/08-2/10 weekend | |
| Mon 02/11 | Min Kang, Aaron Roth | Quality of Service [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional Reading: Clark98. | She95, CSZ92 |
| Wed 02/13 | James McCann, James Tolbert | Router Design [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional reading: D+97 (the "Lulea" algorithm) | KCY03, McK97 |
| Part 3: Wireless | ||||
| Mon 02/18 | Eric Blais, Samir Sapra | Wireless Networks overview and architectures [pdf] [ppt] |
Macaw, BPSK97 | |
| Wed 02/20 | Lei Li, Miguel Silva | Wireless Networks in the real world [pdf] [ppt] |
Chaotic, Roofnet | |
| Mon 02/25 | Arvind K., Abe Othman | Routing in ad-hoc networks [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: MANET2 Roofnet Publications | ETX, MANET1 |
| Wed 02/27 | Eric Chung, Michael Papamichael | Making the Best of Broadcast [pdf] [ppt] |
ExOR SIGCOMM talk Slides: ppt, PDF. | ExOR, XorsInTheAir |
| Mon 03/03 | SS | Quiz 1 |
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| Wed 03/05 | Yong Choi, Samuel Ganzfried | Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: Trickle | TAG, DirectedDiffusion |
| Mon 03/10 | SS | Spring Break |
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| Wed 03/12 | SS | Spring Break |
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| Mon 03/17 | Bin Fu, Wenjie Fu | Topology [pdf] [ppt] |
PowerLaws, HOT | |
| Part 4: Applications, Naming, and Overlays | ||||
| Wed 03/19 | Hetunandan K., William Klieber | Overlay Networks 1 [pdf] [ppt] |
An overview of overlay networks and 15-441 notes on p2p. | RON, ActiveNetworks |
| Mon 03/24 | Jennifer Tam, Rathapon S. | Distributed Hash Tables [pdf] [ppt] |
See also DHT Geometry Comparison paper. | DHTSurvey, Chord |
| Wed 03/26 | SS | No class - project meetings |
Project Checkpoint due | |
| Mon 03/31 | Yi Wu(DNS), Fan Guo(DNS), RaM(Caching), Dongsu(Caching) | DNS and the Web [pdf] [ppt] |
Coral CDN: CoralNSDI04, Semantic-Free Referencing: SFR | DNS, DNSCaching |
| Wed 04/02 | Bin (DOA), Kaushik (i3), Yong Hoon Choi (DOA) | What's in a name? Names, identifiers, and network architecture [pdf] [ppt] |
DOA, i3 | |
| Part 5: Measurement (and Multicast...) | ||||
| Fri 04/04 | Lei, Samir | Measurement [pdf] [ppt] |
Paxson:Measurement | |
| Mon 04/14 | James Tolbert, Will Kleiber | Data-oriented networking and DTNs [pdf] [ppt] |
DOT, DTN | |
| Wed 04/16 | Abe, Miguel | Multicast [pdf] [ppt] |
SRM | |
| Part 6: Security | ||||
| Fri 04/18 | Hetu-TVA, Wenjie-Traceback | Security: DDoS and Traceback [pdf] [ppt] |
Traceback, TVA | |
| Mon 04/21 | Arvind, Jenn | Security: Worms [pdf] [ppt] |
OwningTheInternet, Fingerprinting | |
| Wed 04/23 | Vijay | Review [pdf] |
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| Fri 04/25 | SS | Second In-Class Exam |
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| Mon 04/28 | SS | Project Presentations 1 |
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| Wed 04/30 | SS | Project Presentations 2 |
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| Mon 05/05 | SS | Project writeups due |
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