Please reference the syllabus below. As the semester progresses, updates to the syllabus will be posted here. A few of the lectures may changed or moved, as indicated by an asterisk. The instructor will aim to solicit class feedback to determine actual content. All lectures will be posted online, by 7pm of the noted date. Lectures may be posted beforehand on an as needed basis. Please contact the instructor if you have any questions.
| Week | Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
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| 1 | Tues, June 2 | Course Intro; Layered Architecture | Chapter 1 How to Read a Paper |
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| 1 | Wed, June 3 | Phy Layer, Data Link Layer | Chapter 2 to 2.4 | Programming Assignment 1 released and is due on Tues, June 16 at 11pm |
| 1 | Thurs, June 4 | Reliable Protocol Design | Chapter 2.5 to 2.8 | |
| 2 | Tues, June 9 | Local Area Networks: Ethernet, Switching | Chapter 3 | Problem Set 1 released, due Fri, June 12 at 11pm |
| 2 | Wed, June 10 | Wireless Intro (1/2) | Chapter 2.7, 2.8 | |
| 2 | Thurs, June 11 | Wireless Intro (2/2); Network Layer (1/2) | Chapter 4 | |
| 3 | Tues, June 16 | Network Layer (2/2) | Chapter 4 | |
| 3 | Wed, June 17 | Discovery (ARP, DHCP, DNS) | Programming Assignment 2 released and is due on Tues, July 14 at 11pm | |
| 3 | Thurs, June 18 | Routing and Convergence | Project Proposals due | |
| 4 | Tues, June 23 | UDP, TCP | Chapter 5 | |
| 4 | Wed, June 24 | TCP Congestion Control | Chapter 6 | Paper review 1, due Fri, June 26 at 11pm |
| 4 | Thurs, June 25 | Queuing* | Chapter 6.2 | Problem Set 2 released, due Tues, June 30 at 11pm |
| 5 | Tues, June 30 | Secure communications protocols (HTTPS, IPSec) | Chapter 8 | |
| 5 | Wed, July 1 | Datacenter Networking 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 |
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| 5 | Thurs, July 2 | Midterm | ||
| 6 | Tues, July 7 | Advanced TCP: Datacenters, new protocols, etc | Datacenter TCP TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter* |
Paper review 2, due Fri, July 10 at 11pm |
| 6 | Wed, July 8 | SDN Intro | OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (optional) The Road to SDN (optional) P4 Learning GitHub Repo |
Checkpoint 1 due |
| 6 | Thurs, July 9 | P4 | NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination |
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| 7 | Tues, July 14 | Cellular/mobile networks | Chapter 2.8 | |
| 7 | Wed, July 15 | Middleboxes and Tunneling* | Chapter 4.4, 9.4 | |
| 7 | Thurs, July 16 | Application Layer (such as web, email, video)* | Chapter 9 The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment |
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| 8 | Tues, July 21 | MPTCP | How Hard Can It Be? Designing and Implementing a Deployable Multipath TCP Design, implementation and evaluation of congestion control for multipath TCP Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP |
Checkpoint 2 due |
| 8 | Wed, July 22 | CDNs | Globally distributed content delivery Peer-Assisted Content Distribution in Akamai NetSession Chapter 9.4 |
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| 8 | Thurs, July 23 | Hashing and Partitioning, DHTs and Overlay* | Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications Chapter 9.4 |
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| 9 | Tues, July 28 | Wireless localization | RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point* |
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| 9 | Wed, July 29 | Potpourri* | ||
| 9 | Thurs, July 30 | Emerging workloads/architectures intro | Chapter 2.8 Perspective, 7.2 Rubiks: Practical 360-Degree Video Streaming for Smartphones FoggyCache: Cross-Device Approximate Computation Reuse Rethinking Wireless Network Management Through Sensor-driven Contextual Analysis |
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| 10 | Tues, Aug 4 | Deep Learning at the Edge | Neural Adaptive Content-aware Internet Video Delivery* VideoEdge: Processing Camera Streams using Hierarchical Clusters* |
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| 10 | Wed, Aug 5 | Project Presentations | ||
| 10 | Thurs, Aug 6 | Project Presentations | Project reports due |