CSCI 5273: Network Systems (Spring 2019)

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, Jan 15	Course Syllabus and Intro	How to Read a Paper	Eric's lecture
1	Thurs, Jan 17	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, Jan 22	Datacenter virtualization	The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch Enabling End-Host Network Functions
2	Thurs, Jan 24	Datacenter transport	Datacenter TCP TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter
3	Tues, Jan 29	End-host optimizations	The eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the Operating System Kernel netmap: A Novel Framework for Fast Packet I/O
3	Thurs, Jan 31	Datacenter multipath	WCMP: Weighted Cost Multipathing for Improved Fairness in Data Centers Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks
4	Tues, Feb 5	Datacenter load balancing	Duet: Cloud Scale Load Balancing with Hardware and Software Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer
4	Thurs, Feb 7	Datacenter isolation	Carousel: Scalable Traffic Shaping at End Hosts Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments
5	Tues, Feb 12	Hardware-accelerated datacenter networking	Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud Raising the Bar for Using GPUs in Software Packet Processing
5	Thurs, Feb 14	Datacenter monitoring	FlowRadar: A Better NetFlow for Data Centers Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis
6	Tues, Feb 19	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
6	Thurs, Feb 21	SDN 1	B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN SDX: a software defined internet exchange
7	Tues, Feb 26	Study date for exam		No class
7	Thurs, Feb 28	Midterm exam
8	Tues, March 5	SDN 2	NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination
8	Thurs, March 7	WiFi intro		Eric's lecture
9	Tues, March 12	WiFi: Mesh networking	A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks
9	Thurs, March 14	Wireless architectures	White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity Large-scale Measurements of Wireless Network Behavior	Project Proposals due
10	Tues, March 19	WiFi: MAC layer	ClientMarshal: Regaining Control from Wireless Clients for Better Experience in Enterprise WLANs A case for adapting channel width in wireless networks
10	Thurs, March 21	WiFi: Localization	RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point
11	Tues, March 26	Spring break		No class
11	Thurs, March 28	Spring break		No class
12	Tues, April 2	Cellular Intro		Eric's lecture
12	Thurs, April 4	Cellular: control plane	MobileStream: A Scalable, Programmable and Evolvable Mobile Core Control Plane Platform A High Performance Packet Core for Next Generation Cellular Networks
13	Tues, April 9	Cellular: measurement	MobileInsight: Extracting and Analyzing Cellular Network Information on Smartphones Detecting if LTE is the Bottleneck with BurstTracker	Checkpoint 1 due
13	Thurs, April 11	Cellular: analytics	Automating Diagnosis of Cellular Radio Access Network Problems Mitigating the Latency-Accuracy Trade-off in Mobile Data Analytics Systems
14	Tues, April 16	Emerging workloads/architectures intro		Eric's lecture
14	Thurs, April 18	Deep Learning at the Edge	Neural Adaptive Content-aware Internet Video Delivery VideoEdge: Processing Camera Streams using Hierarchical Clusters
15	Tues, April 23	Emerging workloads	Rubiks: Practical 360-Degree Video Streaming for Smartphones FoggyCache: Cross-Device Approximate Computation Reuse	Checkpoint 2 due
15	Thurs, April 25	IoT	MUTE: Bringing IoT to Noise Cancellation Living IoT: A Flying Wireless Platform on Live Insects
16	Tues, April 30	Presentations
16	Thurs, May 2	Presentations		Project Reports due