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Instructor:

    Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu

Teaching Assistant:

    Lei Shi

General information:

    3 SWS, 4 ETCS credits.   

    Lecture time: Thursday, 14:00-16:00
    Room: SR 0.133, Geismarlandstr. 11

Course Description:

This graduate course will focus on reading, presenting and reproducing networking-related researches, with a semester-long project. There will be no exams, but reports and presentations/demos will be required, and course participation will be evaluated. We will explore the following centric theme throughout the semester: experimental networking research: concepts, tools, and research methodologies. The material in the seminar, drawn mainly from the research literature and open source development community, will be presented in the class from participants. Challenges and an introduction to main issues are suggested to be presented first, to form the foundation for further discussion. This is followed by discussions of details about each specific item. Tentative schedule: 

• Course introduction. Additional readings:
  1. Michael J. Hanson, Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
  2. Mark Handley, Why the Internet only just works?, BT Technology Journal, 24(3): 119-129, July 2006.
  3. A literature on OSS and experimental networking research 
• Example weekly topics:
  • Click, XORP and Quagg
  • TinyOS
  • Network processors, FPGA techniques
  • WAN Emulator (NIST Net, wan-emu), Emulab, traffic and topology generators, wireless emulators
  • intrusion emulator
  • network software development experimences: benchmarking tools, UML, CVS (etc), fast prototype languages (Perl, Python)  etc
  • traffic modeling fundamentals and techniques, Internet traffic measurement and PlanetLab tools
  • VINI, MiNT/MiNT-m
  • ...

Moreover, several invited talks from active researchers in selected areas of network research are being planned as part of the seminar. 07.07 and 14.07 are being planned for final presentations.

Each participant will be requested to pick a topic as part of the presentation/demonstration 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 an experimental 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:

• ACM IMC, SIGMETRICS, SIGCOMM, SOSP and SPECTS, WWW, WCW, USENIX ATC, NSDI, OSDI conferences, Performance Evaluation journal, Performance Evaluation Review
• 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 TMRG, ICCRG, EME, 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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