CS 584 :  Computer Networks II

Spring 2009
Monday/Wedsday  4:00 p.m - 5:15 p.m., 115 Science Hall

Class policies and syllabus
Text and reference books
Useful links
Course schedule (tentative)
Supplemental reading

Text and reference books: 

  Some of the class lectures/presentations are based on the following two textbooks:
  1. James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach," 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2007.
  2. Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
Other books for references are:
  1. Mahbub Hassan and Raj Jain, "High Performance TCP/IP Networking: Concepts, Issues and Solutions," Prentice Hall, 2004.
  2. Anurag Kumar, D. Manjunath and Joy Kuri, "Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach," Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
  3. Radia Perlman, "Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches and Internetworking Protocols," 2nd ed., Addison Wesley, 2000.
  4. George Verghese, "Network Algorithmics," Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
Supplemental readings from a selected set of papers is required for the course. See below.

Useful links for reference and tools/testbeds projects:

  1. Companion websites for the textbooks Kurose & Ross (4th ed.) and Peterson & Davie (4th ed.)
  2. IETF  (Internet  Engineering Task  Force),  resource  for  RFCs  and  Internet  drafts.
  3. Download and documentation sites for the ns-2 and ns-3 network simulators.
  4. The EU Haggle project for situated and autonomic communications.
  5. Community site for the OMNeT++ simulator.
  6. Registration and download site for OPNET IT Guru Academic Edition (Windows® platform only).
  7. The PlanetLab site.
  8. Utah Emulab network emulation testbed with PlanetLab interface, and extensions for wireless, mobile and sensor networks.
  9. Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory (WAIL), another Emulab open for external research and experimentation.
  10. The WAN in Lab (WiL)  at  Caltech.
  11. Open Network Laboratory (ONL) at Washington University.
  12. ORBIT Lab at Rutgers University Wireless Information Networking Laboratory.
  13. CRAWDAD: A Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth.
  14. MoteLab sensor network testbed at Harvard University.
  15. Kansei sensor testbed at Ohio State University.

Course schedule (tentative):

Dates
 Topic
 Reading
 Presentation
 Presenter
 01/14
  Syllabus, organization

 Instructor
 01/21
  Wireless networks basics
  KR (6.1, 6.2)
 Instructor
 01/26
  Wireless LAN/PAN/WAN
  KR (6.3, 6.4), PD (2.8)
 Instructor
 01/28
  Mobility
  KR (6.5, 6.6, 6.7)
 Instructor
 02/02
  Project/group assignment


 02/04
  Multimedia streaming on Internet
  KR (7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
 Instructor
 02/09
  RTP/RTCP/SIP/H.323
  KR (7.4), PD (9.3.1)
 Instructor
 02/11
  Multicast routing
  KR (4.7)
 Instructor
 02/16
  Diffserv
  KR (7.5)
 Instructor
 02/18
  Intserv
  KR (7.6), PD (9.3.2)
 Instructor
 02/25
  Internet design philosophy
  Papers 1, 2, 3
 Instructor
 03/02
 03/04
  Internet design principles
  Papers 4, 5, 6
 Instructor
 03/09
  Link layer issues
  Paper 10
 Paper 11
  Packet header
 ATM under IP
  Bader Albelwi
 Allan Andrew
 03/11
  TCP versions and behavior
  Paper 12,13
 Paper 14
  Evolution of TCP
 TCP and game theory
  Anas Atamneh
 Mohamed Awad
 03/16
  TCP suitability for multimedia
 and wireless networks
  Paper 15
 Paper 16
  Delay friendliness of TCP
 TCP over wireless
  Kabi Bhattarai
 Sanatkumar Bhobe
 03/18
  Routing in Mobile Ad hoc 
 Networks ((MANET)
  Paper 17, 18, 19
 Paper 20
  Routing in MANETs
 Routing metric (ETX)
  Nagarjuna Chanda
 Kuei-ju Chuang
 03/30

  Wireless Sensor Networks
 and Internet integration
  Paper 21, 22
 Paper 23, RFC 4919/4944
  Routing in sensor network
 6LoWPAN issues
  Saliya Fernando
 Archana Gajula
 04/01
  Modeling and simulation
 of the Internet
  Paper 29, 30, 31
 Paper 32, 33, 34, 35
  Internet traffic model
 Internet topology model
  Instructor
 04/06
  Exterior routing
  Paper 25, 26, 27, 28
  BGP routing instability
 Route flap damping
  Instructor
 04/08
  Exterior routing (contd)
 
  Paper 24
 Paper 36
  E2E routing behavior
 Worms (How to own)
  Jaison Kuriakose
 Bradley Morgan
 04/13
  Internet security
  Paper 36
 Paper 39
  Worms (How to Own)
 Spam
  Bradley Morgan
 Sowmya Myneni
 04/15
  Content districution and
 overlay networks
  Paper 37, 38
 Paper 40
   Distributed DoS attack
  CDN (Akamai) 		 Monica Mothy
 Sireesha Nethikunta
 04/20
  P2P and overlay
  Paper 43, 44, 45
 Paper 46
  Structured P2P and DHT
 Gnutella scalability
  Lokesh Rajaram
 Mahitha Soundarajan
 04/22
  Indirection and pointer in
 network architecture
  Paper 41
 Paper 47, 48, 49
  Resilent Overlay
 I3 and network pointer
  Anu Payyapilly
 Instructor
 04/27
  Role of NAT in current
 and future Internet
  Paper 51
 Paper 52, 53
  IPNL architecture
 NUTSS architecture
  Jyothi Sharma
 Sandeep Yemewar
 04/29
  Future trends in Internet
 architecture
  Paper 54, 55, 56, 57
 Paper 58, 59
  Network virtualization
 GENI
  Indtructor
 05/04, 05/06
  Project presentations



Supplemental reading:

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  2. J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reed and D. D. Clark, "End-to-end arguments in system design,"  ACM Trasactions on Computer Systems, 2(4):277-288, November 1984.
  3. D. D. Clark, "The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, Stanford, California, 106-114, August 1988.
  4. D. D. Clark and D. L. Tennenhouse, "Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '90, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 200-208, September 1990.
  5. M. S. Blumenthal and D. D. Clark, "Rethinking the design of the Internet: the end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world," ACM Transcations on Internet Technology, 1(1):70-109, August 2001.
  6. D. D. Clark, K. Sollins, J. Wroclawski and T. Farber, "Addressing reality: an architectural response to real-world demands on the evolving Internet," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, Karlsruhe, Germany, 247-257, August 2003.
  7. S. Raman and S. McCanne, "A model, analysis, and protocol framework for soft state-based communication," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 15-25, August-September 1999.
  8. P. Ji, Z. Ge, J. Kurose and D. Towsley, "A Comparison of hard-state and soft-state signaling protocols," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '03, Karlsruhe, Germany, 251-262, August 2003.
  9. J. S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein, "On the robustness of soft state protocols," Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '04), 50-60, October 2004.
  10. G. P. Chandranmenon and G. Varghese, "Trading packet headers for packet processing," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '95, 162-173, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August-Spetember 1995
    or,
    G. P. Chandranmenon and G. Varghese, "Trading packet headers for packet processing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 4(2):141-152, April 1996.
  11. P. Newman, G. Minshall and T. L. Lyon, "IP switching: ATM under IP," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,  6(2):117-129, April 1998.
  12. K. Fall and S. Floyd, "Simulation-based comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 26(3):5-21, July 1996.
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  15. E. Brosh, S. A. Baset, D. Rubenstein and H. Schulzrinne, "The delay-friendliness of TCP," Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS '08, 49-60, June 2008.
  16. H. Balakrishnan, V. N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan and R. H. Katz, "A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(6):756-769, December 1997.
  17. E. M. Royer, C.-K. Toh, "A review of curent routing protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks," IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 6(2):46-55, April 1999.
  18. J. Broth, D. A. Maltz, D. B. Johnson, Y.-C. Hu and J. Jetcheva, "A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols," Proceedings of ACM MobiCom '98, 85-97, October 1998.
  19. C. E. Perkins, E. M. Royer, S. R. Das and M. K. Marina, "Performance comparison of two on-demand routing protocols for ad hoc networks," IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 8(1):16-28, February 2001.
  20. D. S. J. De Couto, D. Aguayo, J. Bicket and R. Morris, "A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing," Proceedings of ACM MobiCom '03, San Diego, California, 134-146, September 2003.
    or,
    D. S. J. De Couto, D. Aguayo, J. Bicket and R. Morris, "A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing," ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, 11(4):419-434, July 2005.
  21. A. Woo, T. Tong and D. Culler, "Taming the underlying challenges of reliable multihop routing in sensor networks," Proceedings of ACM SenSys '03, Los Angeles, California, 14-27, November 2003.
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  23. J. W. Hui and D. E. Culler, "Extending IP to low-power, wireless personal area networks," IEEE Internet Computing, 12(4):37-45, July-August 2008.
  24. V. Paxson, "End-to-end routing behavior in the Internet," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(5):601-615, October 1997.
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  26. Z. M. Mao , R. Govindan, G. Varghese, R. H. Katz, "Route flap damping exacerbates internet routing convergence," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '02, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 221-233, August 2002.
  27. J. Li, M. Guidero, Z. Wu, E. Purpus and T. Ehrenkranz, "BGP routing dynamics revisited," ACM  SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 37(2):5-16.
  28. Z. M. Mao, R. Bushy, T. G. Griffinz, and M. Roughan, "BGP Beacons," Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IM '03), Miami Beach, Florida, 1-14, October 2003.
  29. S. Floyd and V. Paxson, "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 9(4):392-403, August 2001.
  30. V. Paxson, S. Floyd, "Wide-area traffic: The failure of Poisson modeling," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 3(3):226-244, June 1995.
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  37. A. Hussain, J. Heideman and C. Papadopoulos, "A framework for classifying denial of service attacks," Proceesings of ACM SIGCOMM '03, Karlsruhe, Germany, 99-110, August 2003.
  38. M. Walfish, M. Vutukuru, H. Balakrishnan, David Karger and S. Shenker, "DDoS defense by offense," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '06, Pisa, Italy, 303-314, September 2006.
  39. A. Ramachandran and N. Feamster, "Understanding the network level behavior of spammers," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '06, Pisa, Italy, 291-302, September 2006.
  40. J. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop,  R. Sitaraman and B. Weihl, "Globally Distributed Content Delivery," IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5):50:58, September-October 2002.
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  42. A. Akella, J. Pang, B Maggsy and S. Seshan and A.Shaikh, "A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '04, Portland, Oregon, 93-106.
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  44. I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, M. F. Kaashoek and H. Balakrishnan, "Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer  lookup service for Internet applications," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(1):17-32, February 2003.
  45. M. Castro, P. Druschel, A. Kermarrec and A. Rowstron, "One ring to rule them all: Service discovery and binding in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks," Proceedings of the 10th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop, Saint-Emilton, France, 140-145, July 2002.
  46. Y. Chawathe, S.Ratnasamy, L. Breslau, N. Lanham and S. Shenker, "Making Gnutella-like P2P systems scalable," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '03, Karlsruhe, Germany, 407-418, August 2003.
  47. I. Stoica, D. Adkins, S. Ratnasamy, S. Shenker, S. Surana, S. Zhuang, "Internet Indirection Infrastructure," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 12(2):205-218, April 2004.
  48. C. Tschudin and R. Gold, "Network pointers," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 33(1):23-28, January 2003.
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