Please reference the syllabus below. As the semester progresses, updates to the syllabus will be posted here. A few of the assigned papers may change. Please contact the instructor or a TA if you have any questions.
| Week |
Date |
Topics |
Readings |
Notes |
| 1 |
Tues, Aug 27 |
Course Syllabus and Intro |
How to Read a Paper
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Eric's lecture |
| 1 |
Thurs, Aug 29 |
Datacenter background and intro |
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
Inside the Social Network’s (Datacenter) Network
(optional) A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture
(optional) The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines
|
Eric's lecture |
| 2 |
Tues, Sept 3 |
Datacenter transport |
Datacenter TCP
TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter |
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| 2 |
Thurs, Sept 5 |
Datacenter virtualization |
The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
(additional material) OVS website
Andromeda: Performance, Isolation, and Velocity at Scale in Cloud Network Virtualization |
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| 3 |
Tues, Sept 10 |
Datacenter multipath |
CONGA: distributed congestion-aware load balancing for datacenters
Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks |
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| 3 |
Thurs, Sept 12 |
Failures |
NetBouncer: Active Device and Link Failure Localization in Data Center Networks
Understanding and Mitigating Packet Corruption in Data Center Networks |
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| 4 |
Tues, Sept 17 |
End-host optimizations |
The eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the Operating System Kernel
(optional, can review) netmap: A Novel Framework for Fast Packet I/O
(present, no review) A Look at Intel’s Dataplane Development Kit
(more info) Introduction to DPDK: Architecture and Principles |
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| 4 |
Thurs, Sept 19 |
NIC/OS |
High Performance Packet Processing with FlexNIC
PicNIC: Predictable Virtualized NIC |
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| 5 |
Tues, Sept 24 |
Software-defined networking (SDN) intro |
OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks
P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors
(optional) The Road to SDN |
Eric's lecture |
| 5 |
Thurs, Sept 26 |
SDN |
B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN
(might change) B4 and After: Managing Hierarchy, Partitioning, and Asymmetry for Availability and Scale in Google's Software-Defined WAN |
|
| 6 |
Tues, Oct 1 |
P4 |
NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching
NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination |
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| 6 |
Thurs, Oct 3 |
Intro to NFV |
OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control
Correctness and Performance for Stateful Chained Network Functions |
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| 7 |
Tues, Oct 8 |
In-network compute |
When Should The Network Be The Computer?
Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions using Network Multi-Sequencing |
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| 7 |
Thurs, Oct 10 |
Hardware-accelerated datacenter networking |
Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud
Offloading distributed applications onto smartNICs using iPipe
(optional) Floem: A Programming System for NIC-Accelerated Network Applications |
|
| 8 |
Tues, Oct 15 |
Traffic Shaping |
Carousel: Scalable Traffic Shaping at End Hosts
SENIC: Scalable NIC for End-Host Rate Limiting |
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| 8 |
Thurs, Oct 17 |
RDMA |
RDMA over Commodity Ethernet at Scale
Revisitng Network Support for RDMA |
|
| 9 |
Tues, Oct 22 |
Study date for exam |
|
No class |
| 9 |
Thurs, Oct 24 |
Midterm exam |
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| 10 |
Tues, Oct 29 |
Container networking |
Slim: OS Kernel Support for a Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network
FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds |
Project Proposals due |
| 10 |
Thurs, Oct 31 |
Low latency design |
pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport
Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance |
|
| 11 |
Tues, Nov 5 |
Coflows |
Efficient Coflow Scheduling with Varys
CODA: Toward Automatically Identifying and Scheduling Coflows in the Dark |
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| 11 |
Thurs, Nov 7 |
OS/Networking |
Shenango: Achieving High CPU Efficiency for Latency-sensitive Datacenter Workloads
Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments |
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| 12 |
Tues, Nov 12 |
Isolation |
EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation at the Edge
Silo: Predictable Message Latency in the Cloud |
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| 12 |
Thurs, Nov 14 |
Datacenter load balancing |
Duet: Cloud Scale Load Balancing with Hardware and Software
Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer |
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| 13 |
Tues, Nov 19 |
Monitoring |
FlowRadar: A Better NetFlow for Data Centers
Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis
(optional) Synchronized Network Snapshots |
Checkpoint 1 due |
| 13 |
Thurs, Nov 21 |
Deep Learning |
Multi-tenant GPU Clusters for Deep Learning Workloads: Analysis and Implications
Tiresias: A GPU Cluster Manager for Distributed Deep Learning |
|
| 14 |
Tues, Nov 26 |
Fall break |
|
No class |
| 14 |
Thurs, Nov 28 |
Fall break |
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No class |
| 15 |
Tues, Dec 3 |
Verification |
Validating Networks at Scale
p4v: Practical Verification for Programmable Data Planes |
Checkpoint 2 due |
| 15 |
Thurs, Dec 5 |
Updates |
Safely and automatically updating in-network ACL configurations with intent language
Dynamic Scheduling of Network Updates |
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| 16 |
Tues, Dec 10 |
Presentations |
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| 16 |
Thurs, Dec 12 |
Presentations |
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Project Reports due |