CS 589, Fall 2015: Advanced Computer Networks
Already discussed papers
(09/10 Th) TCP/IP, Network Operations.
A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication, by VINTON G. CERF AND ROBERT E. KAHN, 1974.
(09/15 Tu) Host.
SDX: A software defined Internet
exchange, by Arpit Gupta, Laurent Vanbever, Muhammad Shahbaz, Sean
P. Donovan, Brandon Schlinker, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Scott
Shenker, Russ Clark, and Ethan Katz-Bassett, SIGCOMM 2014.
(09/17 Th) Control Plane.
END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM
DESIGN by J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark, Published in ACM
Transactions in Computer Systems 2, 4, November, 1984.
The Design Philosophy of the
DARPA Internet Protocols by David D. Clark, SIGCOMM ‘88
Optional:
End-to-End Routing
Behavior in the Internet by Vern Paxson, SIGCOMM 1996.
OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function
Control by Aaron Gember-Jacobson (University of
Wisconsin-Madison); Raajay Viswanathan (University of
Wisconsin-Madison); Chaithan Prakash (University of
Wisconsin-Madison); Robert Grandl (University of Wisconsin-Madison);
Junaid Khalid (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Sourav Das
(University of Wisconsin-Madison); Aditya Akella (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), SIGCOMM 2014.
Optional:
CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load
Balancing for Datacenters by Mohammad Alizadeh, Cisco; Tom Edsall,
Cisco; Sarang Dharmapurikar, Cisco; Ramanan Vaidyanathan, Cisco; Kevin
Chu, Cisco; Andy Fingerhut, Cisco; Vinh The Lam, Google; Francis
Matus, Cisco; Rong Pan, Cisco; Navindra Yadav, Cisco; and George
Varghese, Microsoft. SIGCOMM 2014.,
(09/22 Tu) Mobile Internet.
"The design space of network mobility" by Pamela Zave and Jennifer Rexford,
chapter for the SIGCOMM eBook on Recent Advances in Networking, August 2013.
(09/24 Th) DNS for Mobile Internetwork.
A Global Name Service for a Highly Mobile
Internetwork
by Abhigyan Sharma (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Xiaozheng Tie
(University of Massachusetts Amherst); Hardeep Uppal (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Arun Venkataramani (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); David Westbrook (University of Massachusetts
Amherst); Aditya Yadav (University of Massachusetts Amherst), SIGCOMM 2014.
Talk slides
(09/29 Tu) Measurement.
DREAM: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Software-defined Measurement by Minlan Yu et al., Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '14.
Optional reading:
CellIQ: Real-Time Cellular Network Analytics at Scale NSDI 2015.
Making Sense of Performance in Data Analytics Frameworks NSDI 2015.
(10/01 Th) Mobile network performance optimization.
Flywheel: Google’s Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web by Victor Agababov et al., Proc. of NSDI '15.
(10/06 Tu) MPTCP and middleboxes
Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control
for multipath TCP by Damon Wischik, Costin Raiciu, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark Handley, NSDI 2011.
(10/08 Th) No class: work on forming project teams to prepare a project proposal. For feedback, use this link to schedule an appointment to discuss your project idea. Email us to request additional time.
(10/13 Tue) Middleboxes.
Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions using FlowTags, NSDI 2014
(10/15 Th) Middleboxes.
multi-context TLS (mcTLS): Enabling Secure In-Network Functionality in TLS, SIGCOMM 2015
Optional:
Programming Slick Network Functions, SOSR 2015 (If you have read this paper instead, you can submit the summary for this instead).
BlindBox: Deep Packet Inspection over Encrypted Traffic, SIGCOMM 2015
Rollback Recovery for Middleboxes, SIGCOMM 2015
(10/16) (Project proposal due via CTools)
(10/20 Tu) Fall break (no class).
(10/22 Th) No class: prepare for your project proposal presentations..
(10/23 Fri: Discussion) No reading summary, project proposal presentations.
(10/27 Tu) No reading summary, project proposal presentations.
(10/29 Th) Censorship network measurements
Haystack: In Situ Mobile Traffic Analysis in User Space, 2015.
(11/03 Tu) Debugging mobile network services (Guest lecture by Jack Jia).
Performance Characterization and Call Reliability Diagnosis Support for Voice over LTE by Jack Jia et al., MOBICOM 2015.
(This paper was a result of Jack's internship at T-Mobile. He will also talk about his internship experiences.)
(11/05 Th) Security of SDN.
Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures by Sungmin Hong et al., NDSS 2015.