CS91EE   Advanced Network Systems
Fall 2005

Overview Schedule Resources

Schedule (tentative, check frequently and refresh browser)

Date/Lead
Topic
Reading
9/9
Overview

9/13
Part I: Network Architecture
Architectural  principles and protocols

[Cla88],[SRC84]
9/15
Routing overview
Chapter 4 K&R, Notes
9/20
Interdomain routing
Review [GR01]
[GW99], [GSW02], [FBR05], [HLP05]
9/22

Projects
TCP congestion control
Random early detection


Review [TCP]
[RED]

9/27

TCP, AQM contd.
Sophisticated router support

Review [XCP]
[RCP],[VCP],[PCP]

     
9/29
Tim
Part II: Overlay Networks
Reliable routing

Review [RON]
[Detour], [OHSR04], [MONET]

10/4
Haito
Better than best-effort service
[SSBK04]
10/6
Peter
Content addressing and
Distributed hash tables (DHTs)
Load balancing using consistent hashing
Review [Chord]
[PRR], [CAN], [Pastry]
[CH97]
10/11
Kyoungwon
Indirection based architecture
Architectural evolution
Review [i3]
[SPT04],[RSM05]
10/13
Kyoungwon
Denial of Service (DoS)
Review [SOS]
[Mayday]
10/18
Part III: Security and Fault Tolerance
DoS (contd.)
Review [YWA05]
10/20
Aruna
DoS (contd.)
Review [B4Sale]
10/25
Scott
Checking route correctness
Review [Listen04]
10/27
Secure Path Vector Routing
Review [HPS04]
11/1
Sudarshan
Fail-stop fault-tolerance
Review Lamport's Paxos paper
11/3 Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) Storage [BQS97]
11/8
Bruno
Practical BFT
Project proposals due
Review [PBFT99]
[PBFT00], [BASE], [Separating03]
11/10, 11/15, 11/17
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Projects  
11/22
Part IV: Selfish Behavior
Overview

11/29
Tim
Byzantine Altruistic Rational (BAR)
Review [BART05]
12/1
Sherief
Selfish routing
Review [RT02]
T. Roughgarden's page, [QYZS03], [MWA05]
12/6
Bruno
Expressiveness of policy routing
Review [FJB05]
12/8
Honggang
Overlays vs. underlays
[LZGT05], [ZTG05]
12/13
(no class)
Selfish Behavior in Wireless Networks

[ZLLY05] (self-reading)
[MRWZ05], [CGKO04]

12/14
Project reports due



Acknowledgment: Some content on this web page has been constructed from similar courses taught by H. Balakrishnan, M. Dahlin, D. Ganesan, S. Kalyanaraman, J. Kurose, I. Stoica, D. Towsley.