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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: 

• Weekly discussions
  • 2007-10-18: Introduction
    • Slides
    • Michael J. Hanson, Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
    • Mark Handley, Why the Internet only just works?, BT Technology Journal, 24(3): 119-129, July 2006. 
• 2007-11-01 discussion papers:   
  • Hong Yan, David A. Maltz, T. S. Eugene Ng, Hemant Gogineni, Hui Zhang, Zheng Cai. Tesseract: A 4D Network Control Plane. Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'07), April 2007 (more about 4D project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~4D/), related paper: Maltz, D. A., Xie, G., Zhan, J., Zhang, H., Hjálmtýsson, G., and Greenberg, A, "Routing Design in Operational Networks: A Look from the Inside", SIGCOMM 2004
  •  T. Koponen, M. Chawla, B.-G. Chun, A. Ermolinskiy, K.H. Kim, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "A Data-Oriented (and Beyond) Network Architecture", ACM SIGCOMM 2007
• 2007-11-08 discussion papers:
  • Matthew Caesar, Tyson Condie, Jayanthkumar Kannan, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica, "Routing on Flat Labels", ACM SIGCOMM 2006 (more discussions here)
  • I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Lieben-Nowell, D. Karger, M. Kaashoek, F. Dabek, H. Balakrishnan, “Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for Internet applications,” ACM SIGCOMM 2001.
• 2007-11-15 discussion papers:
  • J. Turner, P. Crowley, J. Dehart, A. Freestone, B. Heller, F. Kuhms, S. Kumar, J. Lockwood, J. Lu, M.Wilson, C. Wiseman, D. Zar, Supercharging PlanetLab - High Performance, Multi-Application, Overlay Network Platform, ACM SIGCOMM 2007.
  • A. Bavier, M. Bowman, B. Chun, D. Culler, S. Karlin, S. Muir, L. Peterson, T. Roscoe, T. Spalink, and M. Wawrzoniak, Operating System Support for Planetary-Scale Network Services. ACM/USENIX NSDI 2004
• 2007-11-22 discussion papers:
  • Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, and Sally Floyd, Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, 35(2): 37-52, April 2005. (related project: http://www.icir.org/tbit/ )
  • RFC4614
• 2007-11-29 discussion papers:
  • Dario Bonfiglio, Marco Mellia, Michela Meo, Dario Rossi, Paolo Tofanelli, Revealing Skype Traffic: when randomness plays with you, ACM SIGCOMM 2007.
  • Kuan-Ta Chen, Chun-Ying Huang, Polly Huang, Chin-Laung Lei, Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction, ACM SIGCOMM 2006
• 2007-12-13 discussion paper:
  • Confidential
• Final presentations:
• 10.01.08:
  • David (Slides): iSCSI security implementation: http://www.patrickmcdaniel.org/pubs/storss06.pdf (ACM StorageSS'06 paper), related paper: http://download.intel.com/technology/comms/perfnet/download/iscsi_fast.pdf (USENIX FAST'05 paper)
  • Tim (Slides): iWarp implementation: http://www.osc.edu/~dennis/papers/dalessandro_ipdps2006_cac.pdf (IEEE IPDPS'06 paper), related paper http://www.osc.edu/~dennis/papers/dalessandro_rait2006.pdf
  • Salke (Slides): Power-saving in networked storage/file systems: http://notrump.eecs.umich.edu/group/papers/osdi04.pdf (USENIX OSDI'04), related papers: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~hweather/publications/lfs07.pdf (USENIX HotOS'07 paper), http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070210-CoverStory.pdf
• 17.01.08:
  • Sebastian: DIRAC (ACM Mobicom'03 paper) http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~haiyun/publications/MOBICOM03-DIRAC.pdf, related paper http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354874 (ACM TOCS'00 paper)
  • Rene (Slides of the presentation and K-Means example): Early Application Identification (ACM CoNext'06 paper) http://sigcomm.org/co-next/papers/f17.pdf, related paper http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mahanti/papers/globecom06.pdf
• 24.01.08:
  • Lucas: Flush (ACM SenSys(?)'07 paper): http://snap.cs.berkeley.edu/documents/sensys07flush.pdf, related paper http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2003/papers/p177-sankarasubramaniam.pdf
  • Lars: Interface split routing for finer-grained traffic engineering (IFIP Performance'07 paper) http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166531607000673, related paper http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/ieeecomm02.pdf

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 (12~15 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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