Lectures

Wed 08/26 Lecture 1

Topic -- Introduction to Advanced Topics in Networking
Reading -- no reading

Comment –

Mon 08/31 Lecture 2

Topic -- Internet architecture
Reading -- Clark88

Comment –

Wed 09/02 Lecture 3

Topic -- Layering, E2E argument
Reading -- Saltzer+84

Comment –

Mon 09/07 No class.

Comment –Labor day

Wed 09/09 Lecture 4

Topic -- TCP Architecture, Projects
Reading -- Cerf+74

Comment –

Mon 09/14 No class.

Comment –Rosh Hashanah

Wed 09/16 Lecture 5

Topic -- Congestion Control
Reading -- Jacobson88, Chiu+89

Comment – Project proposal v1 due. HW1 assigned.

Mon 09/21 Lecture 6

Topic -- Router support for congestion control
Reading -- Floyd+93, Demers+89

Comment – Final project proposal due.

Wed 09/23 No class.

Comment –Yom Kippur.

Mon 09/28 Guest lecture.

A guest lecture by Prof. Hany Elgala from Computer Engineering. He will talk about Visible Light Communications.

Wed 09/30 No class.

Comment –Conference travel. Work on homework or project.

Mon 10/05 Lecture 7

Topic -- Congestion control and Beyond
Reading -- Katabi+02, Winstein+13

Comment – Homework 1 due. HW2 assigned.

Wed 10/07 Lecture 8

Topic -- The network layer
Reading -- n/a

Comment –

Mon 10/12 Lecture 9

Topic -- Routing behavior in the Internet
Reading -- Paxon96, Lab+98

Comment –

Wed 10/14 Lecture 10

Topic -- Intra-domain and Inter-domain routing basics
Reading -- n/a

Comment – Homework 2 due.

Mon 10/19 Lecture 11

Topic -- HW3 how to.
Reading -- "https://www.planet-lab.org/"

Comment – HW3 assigned.

"Wed 10/21 Midterm project presentation."

Topic -- Integrated services
Reading -- Zhang+93

Comment – Each group will have a fixed predefined timeslot to present their midterm progress on the project. Note that becides your project progress we will also talk about integrated services.

Mon 10/26 Lecture 12

Topic -- Differentiated services
Reading -- Bal+98, Nichols+97

Comment –

Wed 10/28 Lecture 13

Topic -- Router design
Reading -- Partridge+98

Comment –

Mon 11/02 Lecture 14

Topic -- Router lookup and packet classification
Reading -- Bodnik+97, Gupta+99

Comment –

Wed 11/04 Lecture 15

Topic -- Peer-to-peer
Reading -- [Spotify10],[Choffnes+08]

Comment –

Mon 11/09 Lecture 16

Topic -- Peer-to-peer transport. DNS
Reading -- [Duan+12], [Anonymous14]

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Wed 11/11 Lecture 17

Topic -- HTTP and Content delivery networks
Reading -- [Butkiewicz+11],[Calder+13]

Comment –

Mon 11/16 Lecture 18

Topic -- Software-Defined Networking
Reading -- [Feam+13]

Comment – Homework 3 due. HW4 assigned.

"Wed 11/18 Student presentations."

Topic -- Software-Defined Networking
Reading -- [Vis+15] presented by Eric, [Kim+15] presented by Luan

Comment –

Mon 11/23 Lecture 19

Topic -- Mobility
Reading -- [Zave+13]

Comment – Project testing and evaluation specification due.

Wed 11/25 No class

Comment –Happy Thanksgiving

"Mon 11/30 Student presentations."

Topic -- Mobility
Reading -- [Chen+13] presented by Jon, [Thia+09] presented by Bry-Ann

Comment – Homework 4 due.

Wed 12/02 Lecture 20

Topic -- Wireless network technologies
Reading -- no reading

Comment –

Mon 12/07 Lecture 21

Topic -- Wi-Fi. Future wireless.
Reading -- [Akyildiz+06],[Zheleva+13]

Comment –

"Wed 12/09 Final project presentation"

Future internet Reading -- [Clark+02]

Comment – Each group will have a fixed predefined timeslot to present their project.