CS 740: Advanced Computer Networks
Spring 2007

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Syllabus and Lectures

Note: Some lectures may span multiple classes and could therefore alter the schedule.

Lec # Date Topic Notes Papers to review Optional readings
1 01/22 Introduction to the course Notes -- --
2 01/26 NS-Tutorials Arini's slides -- --
3 02/02 Design Principles Notes [SRC84] [Cla88] [CW02]
4 02/05 Addressing, IP lookup and Packet classification PPT slides No assigned readings [D+97], [WVTP97] and [BV01]
5 02/07 Router Architecture and High-speed Switching PPT slides No assigned readings [MIM+97], [KCY+03]
6 02/12 Inter-domain Routing and Routing Policies Tim Griffin's BGP slides [SARK02] [Nor00] --
7 02/14 Performance, Reliability and Convergence in BGP PPT slides [A+03] [S+99] [LABJ00] --
8 02/16 Routing Protocol Alternatives -- [APM+04] [XR06] [SCE+05] --
9 02/21 TCP and Congestion Control PPT slides [JK88] [BOP94] [CJ89]
10 02/23 TCP and Routers PPT slides [KHR02] [DKS90] [SV95]
11 02/26 Queueing and AQM PPT slides [FJ93] [CSZ98] -
12 02/28 Buffer Sizing; Reliability in Multicast PPT slides -- [FJL+97]
13 03/07 Multicast routing and Application-level multicast -- [DC90] [CRZ00] [BBK02]
03/12 Mid-term I
14 03/14 Web Caching and Consistent Hashing PPT slides -- [FCAB98] [W+99]
15 03/15 DNS and Naming PPT slides [MD88] [BLK04]
16 03/21 DHTs and Peer-to-Peer Systems PPT slides [SMK+01] [G+03] --
17 03/23 DHT-based architectures and Active networks PPT slides [W99] [S+03] --
18 03/26 Quality-of-Service: IntServ and DiffServ PPT slides [CSZ92] [CF98] --
19 03/28 Quality-of-Service: OverQoS and Bill-Pay -- [EAB06] --
20 03/30 Topology and Modeling Slides from Li's talk [F+99] [L+04]
21 04/09 Network Security: DDoS, traceback and Capabilities -- [SB01] [MVS01]
22 04/11 Intrusion detection and Enterprise Security -- [CGA+06] [SEVS04]
23 04/16 Wireless Networking I -- [BDSZ94] [BPSK97]
24 04/18 Wireless Networking II -- [BMJ+98] --
25 04/20 Critiques -- -- --
26 04/23 Network Management and Measurement Guest lecture by Dale Carder (DoIT) [RGH+04] --
27 05/07 Presentations
28 05/09 Presentations
05/11 Final (no sweat!)
05/16 Project report submission

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