There are no required textbooks for the course. If you don't feel like you're up on the background for the course, a few texts you might want to use are:
Some good references for the programming and protocols side of things are:
Finally, if you're not already familiar with them, this course would be a grand time to start familiarizing yourself with Subversion or CVS and with LaTeX.
This class is appropriate for first-year graduate students with a strong background in networks, or for students who have taken the graduate networking class or equivalent. We will assume familiarity with the general operation of routing protocols, TCP, and application protocols such as HTTP.
Grading will be based on participation, paper presentations, and a semester-long project.
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Papers will not be handed out in class. Please print the readings and read them before class. After the first week, we will have signups for students to present the papers.
| Date | Instructor | Topics | Notes | Readings |
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| Mon 09/12 | DGA | Introduction: Internet Architecture, Scenarios [pdf] [ps] [ppt] |
Please read these papers before class. | saltzer-e2e clark88design |
| Wed 09/14 | DGA | 802.11 [pdf] [ps] [ppt] |
See Stalings ch14 for more details. Bg: How WiFi Works. GameSpy 802.11 Primer. Fundamentals of Wireless from Randy Katz's 1996 course. This class may spill over. |
macaw bhagwat-hotnets2003 |
| Mon 09/19 | danwent svp | Ad Hoc and Community Wireless 1 |
1st round presentation sign-ups due | roofnet-mobicom2005 vandrunen-freenix2003 |
| Wed 09/21 | runting, asangpet | Sensor Networks Scenarios |
gdi-ewsn04 zebranet-mobisys04 | |
| Mon 09/26 | Austin Mckinley, Amit Malani | TCP over Wireless |
balakrishnan-wireless1997 eddy-tcploss | |
| Wed 09/28 | Vitaliy Gleyzer, Shravan Rayanchu | Ad Hoc Routing Protocols |
royer-adhoc1999 karp-gpsr2000 | |
| Mon 10/03 | Abhijit Deshmukh, Sai Vinyak | Ad Hoc 2 |
decouto-etx2003 draves-sigcomm2004 | |
| Wed 10/05 | james.hendricks mdunlop | Mobility and IP |
snoeren-e2emobility ieee-mobileip98 | |
| Mon 10/10 | Shishir Moudgal, Akshay Kawale | Mobility 2 |
Project proposals due | maltz-msocks1998 zhuang-mobility2003 |
| Wed 10/12 | DGA | Store and Forward 1: FidoNet and UUCP |
Store and Forward Intro Pathalias UUCP paper (read for UUCP info, skim details of mapping). Wikipedia FidoNet Article, A FidoNet Primer. Further reading: FidoNet Technical Standard Rev16. |
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| Mon 10/17 | Rahul Mangharam | Store and Forward 2: The Modern Days |
Project reviews due | jain-dtn2004 nain-wiopt03 |
| Wed 10/19 | Akshay Kawale, Shishir Moudgal | Disconnected Operation: filesystems |
Suggested background for speculator: bluefs |
kistler-coda1992 speculator-sosp2005 |
| Mon 10/24 | Srini Seshan Students: Rahul, Akkarit Sangpetch |
Sensor Networks: Solutions |
dga out of town this week. | diffusion2000 madden-osdi2002 ght-wsna2002 |
| Wed 10/26 | Peter Steenkiste, guest lecturer. Students: Austin McKinley, Runting Shi |
Multiple Radios / Antennas |
Lecture background: MIMO | miu-mobicom2005 biswas-exor2005 |
| Mon 10/31 | amit jvh | Internet Availability |
ron-sosp2001 gummadi-sosr2004 | |
| Wed 11/02 | danwent svp | Multihoming |
akella-sigcomm2004 monet-nsdi2005 | |
| Mon 11/07 | DGA | Project Progress Reviews |
Mid-semester project status presentations. 8 minutes per group. See project logistics for details. | |
| Wed 11/09 | Ginger Perng | Peer to Peer |
This lecture assumes some basic familiarity with DHTs. Background would include the original Chord paper (from the project iris web site). | gummadi-sigcomm2003 li-infocom2005 |
| Mon 11/14 | Ginger Perng, Matt Dunlop | Availability: Denial of Service 1 |
staniford-usenixsec2002 Singh-osdi2004 | |
| Wed 11/16 | Sharan R., Vitaliy G. | Availability: Denial of Service 2 |
Snoeren-traceback02 Yang-sigcomm2005 | |
| Mon 11/21 | Sai Vinyak, Abhijit Deshmukh | Best of HotNets 2005 |
ballani-hotnets2005 handley-hotnets2005 agarwal-hotnets2005 | |
| Wed 11/23 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
Gobble gobble | ||
| Mon 11/28 | Rahul Mangharam | Local research: Car networking @ CMU |
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| Wed 11/30 | DGA | Energy |
flinn-sosp1999 krashinsky-mobicom2002 | |
| Mon 12/05 | class | Project presentations. |
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| Wed 12/07 | class | Last day of class. Project presentations. |
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| Mon 12/12 | n/a | Project writeups due by 3pm in Dave's admin's office (Wean 8018) |