CS 740, Fall 2026: Advanced Computer Networks

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 09/03	Introduction. DCNet Basics.	Scalable and Commmodity DCNet	L1
Tue 09/08	DCNet physical connectivity (rack and cluster).	Jupiter Rising	L2
Thu 09/10	DCNet physical connectivity (inter-DC and edge).	B4, Espresso	L3	Mosaic
Tue 09/15	DCNet addressing and routing (1).	Scalable and Commmodity DCNet, Jupiter Rising	L4
Thu 09/17	No class.
Tue 09/22	DCNet addressing and routing (2).	VL2	L5	Jupiter Evolving, AWS RNG
Thu 09/24	DCNet flow scheduling (1).	Hedera	L6	Meta AI Training
Tue 09/29	DCNet flow scheduling (2).	Conga	L7	SGLB, Stellar
Thu 10/01	DCNet gateway (1).	Maglev	L8	GKE Inference Gateway
Tue 10/06	DCNet gateway (2).	Duet	L9
Thu 10/08	DCNet host network virtualization (1).	Andromeda
Tue 10/13	DCNet host network virtualization (2).	PicNIC
Thu 10/15
Tue 10/20
Thu 10/22
Tue 10/27
Thu 10/29
Tue 11/03
Thu 11/05
Tue 11/10
Thu 11/12
Tue 11/17
Thu 11/19	Exam.
Tue 11/24
Thu 11/26	Thanksgiving
Tue 12/01
Thu 12/03
Tue 12/08