COSC 6377 - Computer Networks

Fall 2011

MW 2:30-4:00pm at AH301

InstructorOmprakash Gnawali

Readings

Students are expected to read the articles and webpages provided as links from the lecture slides. Readings for August 29 - September 12 cover background material and students are only expected to learn the basic concepts from those readings. Students are expected to read and understand all the papers in detail starting September 14.

August 29, 2011

[Shoch82] John F. Shoch, Yogen K. Dalal, David D. Redell, and Ronald C.Crane, Evolution of the Ethernet Local Computer Network, IEEE Computer, 1982.

[Perlman85] Radia Perlman, An Algorithm for Distributed Computation of a Spanning Tree in an Extended LAN, ACM SIGCOMM, 1985.

August 31, 2011

[RFC1058] C. Hedrick, Routing Information Protocol, IETF RFC, 1988. (Sections 1 and 2)

[RFC2328] J. Moy, OSPF Version 2, IETF RFC, 1998. (Sections 1 and 2)

September 7, 2011

[RFC4271] Y. Rekhter, T.Li, and S. Hares (Eds.), A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), IETF RFC, 1988. (Sections 1 and 3, skim sections 4 and 5)

[Norton02] William B. Norton, Internet Service Providers and Peering, Draft, 2002.

September 12, 2011

[Chiu89] Dah-Ming Chiu and Raj Jain, Analysis of the Increase and Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1989.

[Jacobson88] Van Jacobson and Michael J. Karels, Congestion Avoidance and Control, ACM SIGCOMM 2008.

[RFC2001] W. Stevens, TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms, IETF RFC, 1997.

September 14, 2011

[Saltzer84] Saltzer, J., D. Reed, and D. Clark, End-to-end Arguments in System Design, TOCS, 1984.

[Clark88] David Clark, Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocol, ACM SIGCOMM 1988.

September 19, 2011

[Labovitz00] C. Labovitz, Ahuja, A., Abose, A., Jahanian, F., An Experimental Study of Delayed Internet Routing Convergence, ACM SIGCOMM 2000. Presentations: RIPE37 NANOG17 NANOG18

[Varadhan00] Kannan Varadhan, Ramesh Govindan, and Deborah Estrin, Persistent route oscillations in inter-domain routing, Computer Networks, 2000.

September 21, 2011

[Ha08] Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lison Xu, CUBIC: A New TCP-Friendly High-Speed TCP Variant, ACM SIGOPS Operating System Review, 2008.

[Hemminger07] Stephen Hemminger, TCP testing - Preventing Global Internet Warming, LinuxConf Europe, 2007.

September 26, 2011

[Floyd93] Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson, Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance, IEEE TON, 1993.

October 3, 2011

[Holbrook99] Hugh W. Holbrook and David R. Cheriton, IP Multicast Channels: EXPRESS Support for Large-Scale Single-source Applications, ACM SIGCOMM 99.

October 5, 2011

[Ratnasamy06] Sylvia Ratnasamy, Andrey Ermolinskiy, and Scott Shenker, Revisiting IP Multicast, ACM SIGCOMM 06.

October 10, 2011

[Bharghavan94] Vaduvur Bharghavan, Alan J. Demers, Scott Shenker, and Lixia Zhang, MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LAN's, ACM SIGCOMM 94.

October 12, 2011

[Aguayo04] Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas, Glenn Judd and Robert Morris, Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network, ACM SIGCOMM 04.

October 17, 2011

[Decouto03] Douglas S. J. De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, John C. Bicket, Robert Morris, A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing, ACM MobiCom 03.

October 19, 2011

[Gnawali09] Omprakash Gnawali, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kyle Jamieson, David Moss, Philip Levis, Collection Tree Protocol, ACM SenSys 09.

October 24, 2011

[Sundaresan11] Srikanth Sundaresan, Walter de Donato, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Sam Crawford, Antonio Pescape, Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway, ACM SIGCOMM11.

October 26, 2011

[Stone-Gross09] Brett Stone-Gross, Marco Cova, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Bob Gilbert, Martin Szydlowski, Richard Kemmerer, Chris Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover, ACM CCS 09.

October 31, 2011

[Cohen98] Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Jennifer Rexford, Improving end-to-end performance of the Web using server volumes and proxy filters, ACM SIGCOMM 98.

November 9, 2011

[Crowcroft07] Jon Crowcroft, Net Neutrality: The Technical Side of the Debate: A White Paper, CCR 07.

November 14, 2011

[Claffy11] KC Claffy, Tracking IPv6 Evolution: Data We Have and Data We Need, CCR 11.

November 16, 2011

[Stoica01] Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, SIGCOMM 01.

November 21, 2011

[Su06] Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Fabian E Bustamante, Drafting Behind Akamai (Drafting Behind Akamai), SIGCOMM 06.

November 28, 2011

[Wang08] Yi Wang, Eric Keller, Brian Biskeborn, Jacobus van der Merwe, and Jennifer Rexford, Virtual Routers on the Move: Live Router Migration as a Network-Management Primitive, SIGCOMM 08.

November 30, 2011

[Raiciu11] Costin Raiciu, Sebastien Barre, Christopher Pluntke, Adam Greenhalgh, Damon Wischik, and Mark Handley, Improving Datacenter Performance and Robustness with Multipath TCP, SIGCOMM 11.