CS 740, Fall 2025: Advanced Computer Networks

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Textbooks

• There is no required textbook for this course. The lectures will be based on discussing research papers. We will discuss one paper per lecture.

Additional References

• Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Opensource online version (6th edition) is available.
• Andrew Tanenbaun, Nick Feamster, and David Wetherall, Computer Networks, Sixth Edition, Pearson, 2019, ISBN: 0135408008.
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011, ISBN: 0321336313.

Grading

Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:

• 40% Project
• 30% Exams
• 30% Labs

The course project will be done in groups of 1-3. You should pick your own group members for your projects, but you may use the Canvas to help find group members.

Schedule

Date	Topics	Readings	Notes	Remarks
Thu 09/04	Introduction. DCNet Basics.	Scalable and Commmodity DCNet	L1
Tue 09/09	DCNet physical connectivity (rack and cluster).	Jupiter Rising	L2	Lab1 out.
Thu 09/11	DCNet physical connectivity (inter-DC and edge).	B4, Espresso	L3	Project out.
Tue 09/16	DCNet addressing and routing (1).	Scalable and Commmodity DCNet, Jupiter Rising	L4
Thu 09/18	No class.
Tue 09/23	DCNet addressing and routing (2).	VL2	L5
Thu 09/25	DCNet flow scheduling (1).	Hedera	L6
Tue 09/30	DCNet flow scheduling (2).	Conga	L7
Thu 10/02	DCNet load balancing (1).	Maglev	L8	Proposal proposal due.
Tue 10/07	DCNet load balancing (2).	Duet	L9
Thu 10/09	DCNet host network virtualization (1).	Andromeda	L10	Lab2 out.
Tue 10/14	DCNet host network virtualization (2).	PicNIC	L11
Thu 10/16	SDN and programmable networks (1).	Ethane, OpenFlow	L12
Tue 10/21	SDN and programmable networks (2).	RMT, AFQ	L13
Thu 10/23	SDN and programmable networks (3).	AccelNet, iPipe	L14
Tue 10/28	DCNet transport (1).	DCTCP	L15
Thu 10/30	DCNet transport (2).	NDP	L16
Tue 11/04	DCNet transport (3).	Homa	L17	Project midterm report due.
Thu 11/06	DCNet endhost nstack (1).	Linux NStack	L18
Tue 11/11	DCNet endhost nstack (2).	Snap	L19
Thu 11/13	DCNet application (1).	Atlas	L20
Tue 11/18	DCNet application (2).	QUIC	L21
Thu 11/20	Exam.
Tue 11/25	DCNet for GPUs (1).	DeepSeek-V3	L22
Thu 11/27	Thanksgiving.
Tue 12/02	DCNet for GPUs (2).	DeepSeek-V3	L23
Thu 12/04	Project presentation (1).
Tue 12/09	Project presentation (2).