COSC 6377: Introduction to Computer Networks

Fall 2023

Schedule

Mondays and Wednesdays 1-230 PM

Instructor: Omprakash Gnawali

Office Hour: M 230pm

TAs: Alireza Ansaripour

Office Hour: R 3pm

Lectures

Date
8/21/2023 Lecture 1
9/25/2023 End-To-End Arguments in System Design [Saltzer84]
9/27/2023 Why the Internet only just works [Handley06]
10/2/2023 Dynamics of Random Early Detection [Lin97]
10/4/2023 Exam 1 review
10/9/2023 Exam 1
10/11/2023 Regional IP Anycast: Deployments, Performance, and Potentials [Zhou23] Guest: Razvan Musaloiu-E
10/16/2023 Revisiting IP Multicast [Ratnasamy06]
10/18/2023 Reverse Traceroute [KatzBassett10]
10/23/2023 IPv6 Hitlists at Scale: Be Careful What You Wish For [Rye23]
10/25/2023 Improving Network Availability with Protective ReRoute [Wetherall23]
10/30/2023 Can You See Me Now? A Measurement Study of Zoom, Webex, and Meet [Chang21]
11/1/2023 Sammy: smoothing video traffic to be a friendly internet neighbor [Spang23]
11/6/2023 Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover [Stone-Gross09]
11/8/2023 PREDATOR: Proactive Recognition and Elimination of Domain Abuse at Time-Of-Registration [Hao16]
11/13/2023 Does QUIC make the Web faster? [Biswal16]
11/15/2023 Not only E.T. Phones Home: Analysing the Native User Tracking of Mobile Browsers [Pegioudis23]
11/20/2023 HTTP2 Rapid Reset DDoS Attack [Google/Cloudflare23]
11/27/2023 Project presentations

Homework

Due Date
HW1 10/3/2023
HW2 11/15/2023
HW3 11/15/2023

Project

Date
Selection Due 9/29/2023
Milestone 1 10/27/2023
Milestone 2 11/27/2023

Exams

Date
Exam 1 10/9/2023
Exam 2 11/29/2023