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Instructor:

    Dr. Xiaoming Fu
    Prof. Dieter Hogrefe

General information:

    4 SWS, 6 ETCS credits.
    Lecture time: Friday, 9:30am-12:30pm.
    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: overlay and peer-to-peer networking, middlebox and QoS signaling, autonomic communications, and security protocols, as well as protocols for mobile networking. 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. Tentative schedule: 

• 21.04, 9:30-12:30: course introduction. Additional readings:
  1. Michael J. Hanson, Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
  2. David Clark, Craig Partridge, Robert Braden, Bruce Davie, Sally Floyd, Van Jacobson, Dina Katabi, Greg Minshall, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Roscoe, Ion Stoica, John Wroclawski, and Lixia Zhang, "Making the World (of Communications) a Different Place," ACM SIGCOMM Computer and Communication Review (CCR), 2005.
• 05.05: overlay and peer-to-peer networking (I)
• 12.05: overlay and peer-to-peer networking (II)
• 26.05: autonomic communications (Xiaoyuan Gu)
• 02.06: overlay and peer-to-peer networking (III)
• 09.06: mobility/signaling/measurement
• 23.06: selected security issues (cancelled)
• 30.06: middleboxes and their control (Martin Stiemerling)
• 07.07, 9:00-13:00: final presentations (day I):
  • Christian Dickmann (Extending GONE with a DHT to improve reliability)
  • Florian Tegeler (Routing and Data Transport using Mules and Ferries in Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks)
  • Bernd Schloer (Two Different Approaches Reducing Handoff Latencies in Wireless Networks: Layer-2 Mobility Management and Multiple Radios)
• 21.07, 9:00-13:00: final presentations (day II)
  • Others
• (Final project reports and revised presentation slides due: 01.10)

in which, several invited talks from active researchers in various areas of network research are being planned as part of the seminar:

• Hannes Tschofenig (Siemens, Munich), chair of IETF Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies (ecrit) working group and co-chair of IETF Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime) working group; co-author of RFC 3726, RFC 4081, RFC 4230, RFC 4279, RFC 4442, RFC 4487, RFC 4507, RFC 4589, RFC 4621, and "Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA)", "Common Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences", "Carrying Location Objects in RADIUS", "Payment for Services in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", "SIP SAML Profile and Binding", "Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels", "The EAP-PSK Protocol: a Pre-Shared Key EAP Method", "LoST: A Location-to-Service Translation Protocol", "EAP IKEv2 Method" among others. (abstract of Hannes' talk)
• Martin Stiemerling (NEC Europe, Heidelberg), co-author of RFC 3816, RFC 3989, RFC 4540 and "NAT/Firewall NSIS Signaling Layer Protocol (NSLP)", "Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO) Protocol Version 3.0", "SIP SAML Profile and Binding", "Middlebox Traversal Issues of Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Communication", among others. (abstract of Martin's talk, tentative date: 12.05)
• Xiaoyuan Gu (TU Braunschweig), chair of the IEEE Interest Group on Autonomic Communications (ACIG). (abstract of Xiaoyuan's talk, tentative date: 26.05)

Each participant will be requested to pick a topic as part of the presentation series (each for ~40 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. This course is primary for master students; bachelor students with good knowledge and interested in networks are also invited to participate.

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:

• My collections on soft state concepts and signaling protocols, overlay networking and measurements, and Internet mobility paradigms and performance
• Reading lists/courses on cryptography and security (MIT), computer and network security/network security (Georgia Tech), peer-to-peer systems (Berkeley, PolyTech U, p2p-SIP collection by K. Singh), distributed computing (UIUC), advanced services and applications (Columbia U)
• IRTF E2E, P2PRG, HIPRG, MobOpts, and IMRG research groups; the Autonomic Communications Forum and IEEE Interest Group on Autonomic Communications (ACIG); ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE and SIGMETRICS.
• IETF NSIS, SIP, HIP, DNSEXT, DCCP, MIDCOM, BEHAVE, AAA, PANA, EAP, MIP6, MOBIKE working groups and Security Area.

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