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 | Instructor | Topics | Notes | Readings |
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| Wed 09/09 | SS | No class - travel |
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| Fri 09/11 | SS | Intro: History and context and packet switching. [pdf] [ppt] |
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| Part 1: Internetworking | ||||
| Mon 09/14 | 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 |
| Wed 09/16 | SS | Optional - routing background material review [pdf] [ppt] |
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| Fri 09/18 | SS | Interdomain Routing [pdf] [pptx] |
Optional reading: Stability | Gao2000, MITLec4Notes |
| Mon 09/21 | SS | Optional - transport background material review [pdf] [ppt] |
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| Part 2: Resource Management | ||||
| Wed 09/23 | SS | End-to-End Congestion Control [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional papers: BCCA01, TFRC00, TCPModeling98, CongestionManager99. | CJ89, VJ88 |
| Fri 09/25 | SS | Fair Queueing [pdf] [ppt] |
WFQ, CSFQ | |
| Mon 09/28 | SS | Router congestion control [pdf] [ppt] |
RED, XCP | |
| Wed 09/30 | SS | Multimedia, Quality of Service [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional papers: Video Survey, CSZ92, Clark98. | She95 |
| Fri 10/02 | SS | Router Design [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional reading: D+97 (the "Lulea" algorithm) | KCY03, McK97 |
| Part 3: Wireless | ||||
| Mon 10/05 | SS | Wireless Networks overview and architectures [pdf] [ppt] |
CSMA, BPSK97 | |
| Wed 10/07 | SS | Wireless Networks in the real world [pdf] [ppt] |
White Spaces SIGCOMM talk Slides: pptx, Optional reading: Chaotic | Roofnet, WhiteSpaces |
| Fri 10/09 | Q Youn | Making the Best of Broadcast [pdf] [ppt] |
ExOR SIGCOMM talk Slides: ppt, PDF. | ExOR, XorsInTheAir |
| Mon 10/12 | SS | No class - travel |
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| Wed 10/14 | SS | No class - travel |
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| Fri 10/16 | Sowmya | Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: Trickle | TAG, DirectedDiffusion |
| Mon 10/19 | SS | Quiz 1 |
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| Wed 10/21 | SS | No class - project meetings (on Friday 10/23) |
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| Fri 10/23 | Jeehyung | Topology [pdf] [ppt] |
PowerLaws, HOT | |
| Part 4: Applications, Naming, and Overlays | ||||
| Mon 10/26 | Athula | Overlay Networks 1 [pdf] [ppt] |
An overview of overlay networks and 15-441 notes on p2p. | RON, ActiveNetworks |
| Wed 10/28 | Athula | Distributed Hash Tables [pdf] [ppt] |
See also DHT Geometry Comparison paper. | DHTSurvey, Chord |
| Fri 10/30 | Q Youn | DNS and the Web [pdf] [ppt] |
Coral CDN: CoralNSDI04, Semantic-Free Referencing: SFR | DNSCaching |
| Mon 11/02 | SS | No class - travel |
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| Wed 11/04 | Jeremiah | What's in a name? Names, identifiers, and network architecture [pdf] [ppt] |
DOA, i3 | |
| Part 5: Measurement (and Multicast...) | ||||
| Fri 11/06 | SS | Measurement [pdf] [ppt] |
Paxson:Measurement | |
| Mon 11/09 | Leman | Data-oriented networking and DTNs [pdf] [ppt] |
DOT, DTN | |
| Wed 11/11 | SS | No class - project meetings |
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| Fri 11/13 | Jeremiah | Multicast [pdf] [ppt] |
SRM | |
| Part 6: Security | ||||
| Mon 11/16 | Leman | Security: DDoS and Traceback [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: Traceback | TVA |
| Wed 11/18 | Jeehyung | Privacy [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: OwningTheInternet, Fingerprinting | Infranet |
| Fri 11/20 | SS | Data center networks [pdf] [ppt] |
Optional: VL2 | Portland |
| Mon 11/23 | SS | Pre-thanksgiving break |
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| Wed 11/25 | SS | Pre-thanksgiving break |
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| Fri 11/27 | SS | Thanksgiving break |
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| Mon 11/30 | SS | Post-thanksgiving break - work on projects :-) |
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| Wed 12/02 | SS | Second In-Class Exam |
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| Fri 12/04 | SS | Post-thanksgiving break - work on projects :-) |
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| Sat 12/05 | SS | Project writeups due |
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