Spring 1999 Class Schedule



* = papers to DOIT 

1/20 - Introduction

1/22 - NO CLASS

1/25 - Larry Landweber - Internet2

1/27 - Larry Landweber 
R. Rivest, A. Shamir, L. Adelman, "A Method for Obtaining Digital 
Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems," CACM 21, (February 1978), 
pp. 120-126.

1/29 - Chao Zhou - IP switching
S. Lin, N. McKeown, "A Simulation Study of IP Switching," ACM SIGCOMM '97,
pp. 15-24. Paper

2/1 NO CLASS
2/3 NO CLASS
2/5 NO CLASS

2/8   Justin Forrester - web / java security
D. Dean, E. Felten, D. Wallach, D. Balfanz, "Java Security: Web
Browsers and Beyond," Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton
University, TR-566-97, February 1997. Paper

Rference: L. Gong, M. Mueller, H. Prafullchandra, R. Schemers, "Going Beyond the
Sandbox: An Overview of the New Security Architecture in the Java
Development Kit 1.2," Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet
Technologies and Systems, (December 1997). Paper

2/10  NO CLASS 

2/12  Ravishankar Ramamurthy - active networks
M.Hicks,J.Moore,D.Alexander,C.Gunter,S.Nettles, "PLANet :
An Active Internetwork," To appear in IEEE INFOCOMM, New York, 1999.  Paper

Reference: D.Alexander,W.Arbaugh,M.Hicks,P.Kakkar et al , "The Switchware
Active Network Architecture" IEEE Special Issue on Active and Controllable 
Networks, vol. 12 no. 3 pp. 29-36.  Reference     

2/15  NO CLASS

2/17  Zhiqi Qiu - routing
M. Waldvogel, G. Varghese, J. Turner, B. Plattner, "Scalable High Speed IP
Routing Lookups," ACM SIGCOMM '97, pp. 25-36. Paper

2/19  NO CLASS

2/22  Rushan Chen - satellite transport
T. Henderson, R. Katz,"Transport Protocols for Internet-Compatible Satellite 
Networks," IEEE JSAC, to appear, 1999.  Paper
Related Internet-Drafts can be found at: 
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tcpsat-charter.html

2/24  Wei Lin - internet qos
K. Nichols, V. Jacobson, L. Zhang, "A Two-bit Differentiated Services
Architecture for the Internet," Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet
Draft, Nov, 1997, draft-nichols-diff-svc-arch-00.txt.  Paper.  
Reference Not for Review

2/26  Mike Yoder - web caching
L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida, A. Broder, "Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-
Area Web Cache Sharing Protocol," ACM SIGCOMM '98, pp. 254-265. Paper

3/1  Mihaela Dabu - mobile IP 
C. Perkins, editor, "IP Mobility Support version 2," INTERNET DRAFT, Internet 
Engineering Task Force, draft-ietf-mobileip-v2-00.txt November 1997. Paper
Read to page 62, skimming or omitting sections marked in the text.

3/3  Kevin Beach - level 4 routing
V. Srinivasan, G. Varghese, S. Suri, M. Waldvogel, " Fast and Scalable
Layer Four Switching," ACM SIGCOMM 98, pp. 191-202.  Paper 

3/5  Jason Young - compression
Z. Wallace, "The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard," IEEE
Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Vol 38, February 1992. Paper

3/8  Spring Break
3/10 Spring Break
3/12 Spring Break

3/15 Bruce Jackson - wireless computing
H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, and R. Katz, "A Comparison of 
Mechanisms for Improving TCP performance over Wireless Links," IEEE/ACM Trans.
on Networking, vol. 5, no. 6, December 1997, pp. 756-769. Paper

3/17 Hangying Dong - web cache replacement 
Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer Rexford 
"Evaluating server-assisted cache replacement in the Web,"
Proceedings of the European Symposium on Algorithms-98, San Servolo,
Venice, Italy, August 1998 Paper.

3/19 Chris Serra - multicast
J. Byers, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, A. Rege, "A Digital Fountain Approach to
Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data," ACM SIGCOMM 98, pp. 56-67.  Paper

3/22 Chaojun Liang - MPEG X
T. Sikora, "MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Digital Video Coding Standards," In Digital 
Electronics Consumer Handbook, McGraw Hill Company. Paper

3/24 Joe Bockhorst - JINI
"JINI, Discovery and Join Specification," Version 1.0, Sun Microsystems,
January 25, 1999. Paper

"JINI Archtitectural Overview," Technical White Paper, Sun Microsystems, 1999. 
Reference Not for Review

3/26 Mike Urban - security 
S. Kent, "Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail" Communications of the ACM,
Volume 36 No. 8, August 1993 pp. 48-60. Paper

3/29 Eric Weigle - video error control
I. Rhee, "Error Control Techniques for Interactive Low-bit Rate Video 
Transmission over the Internet," ACM SIGCOMM 98, pp. 290-301. Paper

3/31 Yong Lu - multicasting
S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, S. McCanne, L. Zhang, "A Reliable
Framework for Light-Weight Sessions and Application Level Framing,"
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 6, December 1997,
pp. 784-803. Paper

4/2  Andrew Baptist - RSVP
L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, D. Zappala, "RSVP: A
New Resource ReSerVation Protocol," IEEE Network Magazine,
September 1993.  Paper

4/5  Kun Qian - IP over DWDM
T. Chung, J. Coutler, J. Fitchett, S. Mokbel, B. St. Arnaud, "Architectural and 
Engineering Issues for Building an Optical Internet," Canarie, 1998. 
first read section 3, 4, 5, 6, the rest are optional. Paper

4/7  Mike Henderson - HTTP delta enc/compression
J. Mogul, F. Douglis, A. Feldmann, B. Krishnamurthy, "Potential Benefits
of Delta Encoding and Data Compression for HTTP," ACM SIGCOMM 97, pp. 181-194.
Paper

4/9  Ning Wang
A. Feldmann, J. Rexford, R. Caceres, "Efficient policies for carrying Web 
traffic over flow-switched networks," To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions
Paper

4/12 - Zhe Qian - mobile atm
R. Ramjee, T. LaPorta, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, "Performance Evaluation of 
Connection Rerouting Schemes for ATM-Based Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Trans. on
Networking, vol. 6, no. 3, June 1998, pp. 249-261. Paper

4/14 - Jiangbin Luo - qos
D. Yau, S. Lam, "Migrating Sockets - End System Support for Networking with Quality
of Service Guarantees," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 6, no. 6, December 1998,
pp. 700-716. Paper

4/16 - Xiaohua Lu - active networks
L. Lehman, S. Garland, D. Tennenhous, "Active Reliable Multicast," IEEE Infocom'98.
Paper


4/19 - Fan Yang - security 
C. Wong, M. Gouda, S. Lam, "Secure Group Communications Using Key Graphs,"
ACM SIGCOMM 98, pp. 68-79. Paper

4/21 NO CLASS

4/23 NO CLASS

4/26 Dongqiao Li - multicasting
C. Liu, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, L. Zhang, "Local Error Recovery in SRM: Comparison
of Two Approaches," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 6, no. 6, December 1998.
pp. 686-699. Paper

4/28 NO CLASS
4/30 NO CLASS

5/3 - Jim Gast - ecommerce
David M. Kristol, Steven H. Low, Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Anonymous Internet
Merchantile Protocol, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murry Hill, New Jersey.
(Unpublished) Paper

5/5 Paul Baranowski - weighted fair queueing
J.C.R. Bennett and H. Zhang, "WF2Q: Worst-case Fair Weighted Fair
Queueing," INFOCOM'96, Mar, 1996. Paper.