OpenFlow: [MAB+08]
N. McKeown, T. Anderson, H. Balakrishnan, G. Parulkar, L. Peterson, J.Rexford, S. Shenker, J. Turner, OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks
ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 69-74, 2008.
GENI: [APS+05]
T. Anderson, L. Peterson, S. Shenker, J. Turner, Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization,
Computer , Vol. 38, No. 4,
pp. 34-41, 2005.
Other topics we will cover: concurrent virtual networks;
overlays.
Routing and Routers
New Routing Architectures: [VFJ+08] Vytautas Valancius, Nick Feamster, Ramesh Johari, Vijay Vazirani, MINT: A Market for Internet Transit, ACM CoNEXT 2008.
Software routers: [DEA+09] Mihai Dobrescu and Norbert Egi, Katerina Argyraki, Byung-Gon Chun, Kevin Fall,
Gianluca Iannaccone, Allan Knies, Maziar Manesh, Sylvia Ratnasamy, RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism To Scale Software Routers, ACM SOSP
2009.
Other topics we will cover: Programmable router design issues; NetFPGA.
Data centers and Clouds
Cloud computing: [AFG+09] Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Andrew Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David A. Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia, Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, , UCB/EECS Technical Report 2009.
Data center networks: [GJK+09] Albert Greenberg, Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, and Sudipta Sengupta,
VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network, , ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
Other topics we will cover: Data center traffic properties, Policy-awareness.
Energy
Energy conservation: [AHC+09] Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, Ranveer Chandra, James Scott, Paramvir Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta, Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage, , USENIX NSDI
2009.
Energy-aware designs: [QWB+09] Asfandyar Qureshi, Rick Weber, Hari Balakrishnan, John Guttag, and Bruce Maggs, Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems, , ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
Data-Oriented Networks
Content-centric networks: [BDL+08] Van
Jacobson, Diana K. Smetters, James D. Thornton, Michael F. Plass, Nicholas
H. Briggs, Rebecca L. Braynard, Networking Named Content, ACM
CoNext 2009.
Data-oriented architecture: [ZKJ+08] T. Koponen, M. Chawla, B.-G. Chun, A. Ermolinskiy, K. H. Kim, S. Shenker, I. Stoica, A Data-Oriented (And Beyond) Network Architecture, , ACM Sigcomm 2007.
Security
Accountability Architectures: [ABF+08] David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, Nick Feamster,
Teemu Koponen, Daekyeong Moon and Scott Shenker,
Accountable Internet Protocol (AIP), ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
End-hosts: [ZBM08] Nickolai Zeldovich, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, and David Mazi�res, Securing Distributed Systems with Information Flow Control, USENIX NSDI 2008.
Game changers -- TPMs: [MSW+09] Ramakrishna Gummadi, Hari Balakrishnan, Petros Maniatis and Sylvia Ratnasamy,
Not-a-Bot: Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks, , USENIX NSDI 2009.
Other topics we will cover: Botnets, Enterprise Layer-2 designs; Enterprise traffic properties; Troubleshooting and debugging in enterprises; End-host troubleshooting.
Wireless
Software radio architectures: [TZF+09] Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang, and Geoffrey M. Voelker,
Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors, USENIX NSDI 2009.
RFID: [BD09] Michael Buettner and David Wetherall,
An Empirical Study of UHF RFID Performance,, ACM MOBICOM 2008.
Vehicular networks: [EBM09] Jakob Eriksson, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden,
Cabernet: Vehicular Content Delivery Using WiFi, Mobicom 2008.
Other topics we will cover: Mobility support; White-space networking; Sensors; long distance/challenged networks.
Applications and Services
Gaming: [BDL+08] Ashwin Bharambe, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas Moscibroda, Jeffrey Pang, Srinivasan Seshan, and Xinyu Zhuang, Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games, , ACM SIGCOMM 2008.
[Optional: DCK+07] Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, Vivaldi: A Decentralized Network Coordinate System , ACM SIGCOMM 2007.