CS7941-001: Advanced Networking Topics (Fall 2005)

Location: Large Conference Room (MEB 3147)
Day and Time: Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 PM

Prof. Sneha Kumar Kasera is the primary organizer.

Overview

The past two decades have seen a tremendous growth of networked systems. A variety of networks including the Internet and the current cellular networks have been developed and are being increasingly used for social, financial, medical, entertainment and other applications. Networked systems have not only become an indispensable part of the global communication infrastructure but also of our daily lives. It is no wonder that networking is one of hottest research areas. In this seminar, we will survey the current networking literature, focusing on a few selected topics including network architecture and virtualization, network security, network measurements and modeling, wireless local area networks, and peer-to-peer networks. Our key goals are to understand existing work, and identify open research challenges and directions.

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List of Papers

Week Date Topic Presenter Paper(s)
1 8/30
 Internet Design, Architecture, etc.
 Sean Walton
 J. Saltzer, D. Reed, D. Clark: "End-to-End arguments in System Design" ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 2 , Issue 4 (November 1984)

D. Clark: "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88, August, 1988.
2 9/6
Lu Zhao
 P. Molinero-Fernadez, N. McKeown, H. Zhang, "Is IP going to take over the world?," ACM HotNets, 2002.

M Blumenthal, D. Clark, "Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world," ACM Trans. on Internet Technology.
3 9/13
Rob Ricci
 David D. Clark et al, "A Knowledge Plane for the Internet," ACM Sigcomm 2003.

T. Anderson, L. Peterson, S. Shenker, J. Turner, "Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization," IEEE Computer Magazine, April 2005.
A paper with the same title appeared in ACM Hotnets 2004. The pdf of the Hotnets paper can be found here.)
4 9/20
 Internet Measurements
 Junxing Zhang
 M. Yajnik, S. Moon, D. Towlsey and J. Kurose, "Meaurement and Modeling of the Temporal Dependence in Packet Loss", IEEE Infocom, March 1999.
5 9/27
Junxing Zhang
 A. Lakhina, M. Crovella, C. Diot, "Mining Anomalies Using Traffic Feature Distributions," ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2005.
6
 10/4
Jinxing Zhang
 Ming Zhang et al, "Planetseer: Internet Path Failure Monitoring and Characterization in Wide Area Services," OSDI 2004.
7
 10/11
 Content Sharing Networks Siddharth Ramesh
 B. Cohen, "Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent," May 2003.

D. Qiu and R. Srikant, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of BitTorrent-like Peer-to-peer Networks," ACM Sigcomm, August 2004.
8 10/18
 Distributed Hash Tables
 Miles Kline
 Sean Rhea et al, "OpenDHT: A Public DHT Service and Its Uses," ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2005.
9
 10/25
 Wireless Networks Li Wang
 Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, "Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks," ACM Mobicom 2005.
10 11/1
Manu Awasthi
 Martin Heusse, Franck Rousseau, Romaric Guillier, Andrzej Duda, "Idle Sense: An Optimal Access Method for High Throughput and Fairness in Rate Diverse Wireless LANs," ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2005.
11 11/8
Jun Cheol Park
 Sanjit Biswas, Robert Morris, "ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks", ACM Sigcomm Conference, August 2005.
12 11/15
David Johnson
 Wang Wei, Vikram Srinivasan, Chua Kee Chaing, "Using Mobile Relays to Prolong the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Mobicom, August 2005.
13 11/22
 Network Security Vivek Venkatesan
 Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Virgil Gligor, "Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attacks in Sensor Networks," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland Security Conference), May 2005.
14
 11/2
Prashanth Radhakrishnan
 Tuomas Aura, Pekka Nikander, Gonzalo Camarillo, "Effects of Mobility and Multihoming on Transport-Protocol Security," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland Security Conference), 2004.

15
 12/6
Siddharth Ramesh
 Patrick Traynor, William Enck, Tom La Porta, Patrick McDaniel, "Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks," ACM CCS 2005. 


Expectations

The course can be taken for 1 or 3 credits. Those taking the course for 1 credit will be required to read all the papers, write and submit a short summary before the papers are presented, and present a small number of papers. The exact number of presentations will be decided based on the class size.  Students taking the course for 3 credits will be required to finish a substantial project and submit a project report. Those interested in registering for 3 credits need approval of the instructor.