Week 1 (August 22 - August 25): Introduction, TCP/IP Internet architecture

• Wednesday August 23, lecture 1: Course introduction and TCP/IP introduction 

Week 2 (August 28 - September 1): TCP/IP Internet architecture (cont'd)

• Monday August 28, lecture 2: TCP/IP Internet architecture 

• Wednesday August 30, lecture 3:  Paper presentation (TCP/IP), quiz, and design discussion

  • D .D. Clark, “The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols”, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 1988. Presenter: Francis

  • Internet architecture design discussion

Week 3 (September 4 - September 8): DNS

• Monday September 4, lecture 4: DNS

  • Quiz (TCP/IP)

• Wednesday September 6, lecture 5: Paper presentation (DNS), quiz, and design discussion

  • R. Houser, Z. Li, C. Cotton, H. Wang, "An investigation on information leakage of DNS over TLS", ACM CoNEXT, 2019. Presenter: Taj

  • Quiz (DNS) 

  • DNS design discussion

Week 4 (September 11 - September 15): NTP

• Monday September 11, lecture 6: NTP

• Wednesday September 13, lecture 7: Paper presentation (NTP), quiz, and design discussion

  • T. Rytilahti, D. Tatang, J. Köpper, T. Holz, “Masters of time: An overview of the NTP ecosystem", IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2018. Presenter: Zanxiang

  • J. Kwon, J. Song, J. Hur, and A. Perrig, "Did the Shark Eat the Watchdog in the NTP Pool? Deceiving the NTP Pool’s Monitoring System", USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), 2023. Presenter: Shahbaz

  • Quiz (NTP) 

  • NTP design discussion

Week 5 (September 18 - September 22): Information-Centric Networking/Named-Data Networking (ICN/NDN)

• Monday September 18, lecture 8: ICN/NDN

• Wednesday September 20, lecture 9: Paper presentation (ICN/NDN), quiz, and design discussion

  • L. Zhang, et al., “Named Data Networking”, ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2014. Presenter: Daniel

  • Quiz (ICN/NDN)

  • ICN/NDN design discussion

• Friday September 22, 10PM: Deadline for project proposals

Week 6 (September 25 - September 29): Peer-to-peer networking 

• Monday September 25, lecture 10: Peer-to-Peer Networking

• Wednesday September 27, lecture 11: Paper presentation (peer-to-peer), quiz, and design discussion

  • N. Liogkas, R. Nelson, E. Kohler, L. Zhang, "Exploiting BitTorrent for fun (but not profit)",  Proc. of IPTPS, 2006. Presenter: Colin

  • Quiz (peer-to-peer) available on canvas

• Peer-to-peer design discussion

Week 7 (October 2 - October 6): Project proposal presentations

• Monday October 2, lecture 12: Project Proposal Presentations

• Wednesday October 4, no lecture (conference travel)

Week 8 (October 9 - October 13): Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) 

• Monday October 9, lecture 13: CDNs

• Wednesday October 11, lecture 14: Paper presentation (CDNs), quiz, and design discussion

  • J. Dilley, et al., “Globally distributed content delivery”, IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5), 2002. Presenter: Alan

  • Quiz (CDNs)

  • CDNs design discussion

Week 9 (October 16 - October 20): No class (mid-term break)

Week 10 (October 23 - October 27): Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• Monday October 23, lecture 15: Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• Wednesday October 25, lecture 16: Paper presentation (SDN), quiz, and design discussion

  • N. McKeown, et al. "OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks" ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2008. Presenter: Alamin

  • N. Feamster, J. Rexford, and E. Zegura, "The road to SDN: An intellectual history of programmable networks", Queue, 2013. Presenter: Barry

  • Quiz (SDN)

  • SDN design discussion

Week 11 (October 30 - November 3): Cloud computing 

• Monday October 30, lecture 17: Cloud Computing

• Wednesday November 1, lecture 18: Paper presentation (cloud computing), quiz, and design discussion

  • M. Armbrust, et al., "A view of cloud computing",  Communications of the ACM, 53(4), 2010. Presenter: Shivani

  • Quiz (cloud computing)

  • Cloud computing design discussion

Week 12 (November 6 - November 10): Mid-semester project presentations and edge computing

• Monday November 6, lecture 19: Mid-semester project presentations

• Wednesday November 8, lecture 20: Edge Computing

Week 13 (November 13 - November 17): Edge computing (cont'd) and Machine Learning (ML) for networking

• Monday November 13, lecture 21: Paper presentation (edge computing), quiz, and design discussion

  • P. Guo, and W. Hu, "Potluck: Cross-application approximate deduplication for computation-intensive mobile applications." International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2018. Presenter: Samit

  • Quiz (edge computing)

  • Edge computing design discussion

• Wednesday November 15, lecture 22: ML for networking

Week 14 (November 20 - November 24): ML for networking and networking for ML

• Monday November 20, lecture 23: Networking for ML 

• Wednesday November 22, no class (Thanksgiving)

Week 15 (November 27 - December 1):  ML for networking and networking for ML (cont'd)

• Monday November 27, lecture 24:  Paper presentation, quiz, and design discussion

  • W. Shi, et al., “Edge computing: Vision and challenges”, IEEE Internet of Things, 2016, Presenter: Ruochen

  • M. Wang, Y. Cui, S. Xiao, J. Jiang, "Machine learning for networking: Workflow, advances and opportunities", IEEE Network, 2017. Presenter: Spyros

  • Quiz (ML for networking and networking for ML)

  • Design discussion

• Wednesday November 29, lecture 25: Semester material recap

Week 16 (December 4 - December 8): Final project presentations

• Monday December 4, lecture 26:  Final project presentations #1

• Wednesday December 6, lecture 27: Final project presentations #2

• Friday December 8, 10PM: Project (report and code) submission deadline