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Instructors:

    Dr. Xiaoming Fu
    Dipl.-Inf. Hannes Tschofenig
    Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe

General information:

    4 SWS, 6 ETCS credits.
    Lecture time: Friday, 9:00am-13:00pm.
    Room: MN68

Course Description:

This graduate course will focus on reading and presenting networking-related papers, with a semester-long project. There will be no exams, but paper and presentation summaries will be required, and course participation will be evaluated. We will explore the following topics throughout the semester: Quality of Service and soft state concepts, signaling, and security protocols, peer-to-peer networks and distributed computing, as well as protocols and multimedia service provisioning in wireless and mobile networks. The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature, will be presented in a bottom-up fashion. Challenges and an introduction to main issues are presented first, to form the foundation for further discussion. This is followed by discussions of details about each specific topic. 

Each participant will be requested to pick a topic as part of the presentation series (each for ~50 minutes, plus ~20 minutes discussions) and write an essay (~15 pages) based on the assignment. The objective of the seminar is to help students build on their networking knowledge and keep them up to date with the new technologies in the ever changing and dynamic world of computer networking.

Objectives:

To become proficient at reading technical papers; to gain knowledge of important current networking research; to learn to write critical reviews of research papers; to explore a research project in some depth and write a technical paper summarizing that work.

Prerequisites:

    Computer Networks (Telematik) or another equivalent course in computer networking.

Course project presentations:

• Fast Reroute in MPLS (Henning Peters, July 1, 2005; slides). Readings:
  • P. Pan, G. Swallow, et al., Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels, RFC 4090, May 2005.
  • D. Wang and G. Li, Efficient Distributed Solution for MPLS Fast Reroute, Networking 2005, May 2005.
  • ... and other MPLS rerouting documents (see StudIP)
• Security issues in multihoming and mobility (Christian Dickmann, July 1, 2005; slides)
  • Tuomas Aura, Pekka Nikander and Gonzalo Camarillo, Effects of Mobility and Multihoming on Transport-Protocol Security, SSP 2004
  • Greg O’Shea and Michael Roe, Child-proof Authentication for MIPv6 (CAM), CCR 2001
• Web server performance (John-Patrick Wowra, July 1, 2005; slides)
  • J. Song, Segment-based proxy caching for distributed cooperative media content servers. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 39, 1 (Jan. 2005), pp. 22-33.
  • E. Nahum, T. Barzilai,  and D. Kandlur,  Performance issues in WWW servers. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 10, 1 (Feb. 2002), pp. 2-11.
• Peer-to-peer searching (Jan Demter, July 1, 2005; slides)
  • P. Reynolds and A. Vahdat, Efficient Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching, Middleware 2003.
  • C. Tang and S. Dwarkadas, Hybrid Global-Local Indexing for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval, NSDI 2004.
• Performance Improvements in Wireless Networks (Ingo Juchem, July 8, 2005; slides)
  • X. Yu, Improving TCP performance over mobile ad hoc networks by exploiting cross-layer information awareness, MOBICOM 2004
  • Chakravorty, R., Banerjee, S., Rodriguez, P., Chesterfield, J., and Pratt, I., Performance optimizations for wireless wide-area networks: comparative study and experimental evaluation, MOBICOM 2004
• XORP -- Extensible Open Router Platform (Niklas Steinleitner, July 8, 2005; slides)
  • Mark Handley, Eddie Kohler, Atanu Ghosh, Orion Hodson, Pavlin Radoslavov, Designing Extensible IP Router Software, NSDI 2005.
  • Mark Handley, Orion Hodson, Eddie Kohler, XORP goals and architecture, HotNets 2002.
• TCP performance evaluation (Nikolaos Chardalias, July 8, 2005; slides)
  • González-Parada, E., Cano-García, J. M., and Díaz-Estrella, A., A new methodology for representation of TCP performance in multiconnection environments, CCR, Jan. 2005, pp. 99-110.
  • Shirin Ebrahimi-Taghizadeh Ahmed Helmy Sandeep Gupta, TCP vs. TCP: a Systematic Study of Adverse Impact of Short-lived TCP Flows on Long-lived TCP Flows, INFOCOM 2005
• Multi-layer IPsec (Bernd Schlör, July 15, 2005; slides)
  • http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gcao/paper/song/infocom05.pdf
  • http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gcao/teach/514/jsac04.pdf
  • http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/full_papers/zhangipsec/zhangipsec.pdf
• Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and peer-to-peer (Michael Heimann, July 15, 2005; slides)
  • http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~jinyang/pub/nsdi05-accordion.pdf
  • http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~oscar/papers/078_xu_z.pdf
• Deguang Le: A study on multihoming in Mobile IPv6 (Deguang Le, July 15, 2005; slides)
  • http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-montavont-mobileip-multihoming-pb-statement-04.txt
  • some others

Essays:

(To be published online soon)

Tips:

• Michael J. Hanson: Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
• Ashwin Ram, GaTech: How to Present a Paper.
• Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia U.: Writing Technical Articles in computer science and electrical engineering, with emphasis on papers in systems and networks.
• William J. Rapaport, SUNY Buffalo: How to Study; How to Write.

Resource Collections:

• Collections on soft state concepts and signaling protocols
• Collections on Internet mobility paradigms and performance, sensor networks
• Reading lists/courses on network security (UCSB), peer-to-peer systems (Berkeley), distributed computing (UIUC), advanced services and applications (Columbia U)
• IRTF E2E, HIP, MobOpts, and IMRG research groups
• IETF NSIS, SIP, HIP, DNSEXT, DCCP, BEHAVE, AAA, PANA, EAP, MIP6, NEMO, MOBIKE working groups and Security Area.

Created: Nov. 11, 2004
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