EE 817 Advanced Networking and Cloud Systems

Note: the course schedule is subject to change throughout the semester. Please check this page periodically.

Date Topics Readings Discussion Leader
Overview
Mon 02/26 (week 1) Introduction and Topic Overview How to read a paper How to Give a Good Presentation
How to Give a Bad Talk, optionally How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia
KyoungSoo Park
Wed 02/28 (week 1) Internetworking: Design Principles DARPAnet(skim), e2e, Tomorrow'sInternet
No review is required for this class. But makes sure to read the papers.
KyoungSoo Park
Network Protocols
Mon 03/05 (week 2) Inter-domain Routing: BGP ASInference, InterASTraffic (Reviews due on 2/28) KyoungSoo Park
Wed 03/07 (week 2) Transport Protocols and Congestion Control AIMD, Congestion Avoidance, BBR (skim) (Reviews due on 3/5)
Assignment0 due on 9:00pm today
Seoungeon Yi (AIMD)
Mon 03/12 (week 3) Transport Protocols and Congestion Control TCP Throughput Modeling (Review due on 3/7)
Jaehyung Ha (TCP Througput Modeling)
Wed 03/14 (week 3) Internet Topology and Information Plane iPlane Reverse Traceroute (only intro), MIT lecture note(supplement)
(Reviews due on 3/12)
Eunkyu Lee (iPlane)
Software Packet Processing
Mon 03/19 (week 4) Software Packet Processing Click (Review due on 3/14)
Changho Hwang (Click)
Wed 03/21 (week 4) User-level TCP Stack IX, mTCP (Reviews due on 3/19)
Mon 03/26 (week 5) Accelarating Packet Processing PacketShader, ClickNP (Reviews due on 3/21) Keunhyung Chung (ClickNP)
Wed 03/28 (week 5) GPU vs. CPU in Packet Processing APUNet, G-Opt (Reviews due on 3/26) Taehyun Kim (G-Opt)
Software Defined Networking
Mon 04/02 (week 6) Project Proposal 5-10 minute talk by each team 2-page proposal writeup due 9pm on 04/02
Wed 04/04 (week 6) SDN Concepts 4D (Review due on 4/2) Hejing Li (4D)
Mon 04/09 (week 7) SDN Concepts Ethane, OpenFlow (skim), OpenFlow Specification (skim) (Review due on 4/4) Seongbeom Ahn (Ethane)
Wed 04/11 (week 7) Programming Data Plane Marple, P4 (Reviews due on 4/9) Hani Kang (Marple), Seungwon Woo(P4)
Mon 04/16 (week 8) Midterm Exam Period No class
Wed 04/18 (week 8) Midterm Exam Period No class
Middlebox & NFV
Mon 04/23 (week 9) NFV E2, Netbricks (Reviews due on 4/18) Wonsup Yoon (Netbricks)
Wed 04/25 (week 9) Virtualization for NFs ClickOS, NetVM (Reviews due on 4/23) Jiho Lee (ClickOS)
Mon 04/30 (week 10) Middlebox Composition CoMB (Review due on 4/25) Jungmin Bae (CoMB)
Wed 05/02 (week 10) Middlebox Programmability mOS (Review due on 4/30) Dohun Kim (mOS)
Mon 05/07 (week 11) Replacement Hoiday No class
Wed 05/09 (week 11) Sigcomm PC meeting No class
Datacenter Networking & Cloud Systems
Mon 05/14 (week 12) DC Topologies and Challenges B4, Jupiter, Facebook DC Topology (skim) (Review due on 5/9) Daeyang Cho (Jupiter)
Wed 05/16 (week 12) DC Congestion Control DCTCP, pFabric (no review) (Review due on 5/14) Hyungho Yeo (DCTCP)
Mon 05/21 (week 13) DC Congestion Conttrol Virtualized CC, Varys (select and review 1 paper) (Review due on 5/16) Joonsik Seo (Virtualized CC)
Wed 05/23 (week 13) Cloud Computing Technologies Spark, Mesos (select and review 1 paper) (Review due on 5/21) Geonha Park (Mesos)
Security
Mon 05/28 (week 14) Security in Cloud Computing Haven, Ryoan (select and review 1 paper) (Review due on 5/23) Hyunmin Seo (Haven)
Wed 05/30 (week 14) IoT Security FlowFence Smart Home Security (select and review 1 paper) (Review due on 5/28) Seungryol Yi (Smart Home Security)
Mon 06/04 (week 15) Preparation for Final Presentation No class
Wed 06/06 (week 15) Memorial Day No class
Mon 06/11 (week 16) Exam Period No class
Wed 06/13 (week 16) Election No class
Fri 06/15 (week 16) Final Presentation Time: 6pm to 9pm, Place: TBA Final report due 9:00pm on 6/18 (Mon)

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