Week 1 (August 26 - August 30): Introduction, TCP/IP Internet architecture

• Wednesday August 26, lecture 1: Course introduction and TCP/IP introduction 

Week 2 (September 2 - September 6): TCP/IP Internet architecture (cont'd)

• Monday September 2, lecture 2: TCP/IP Internet architecture 

• Wednesday September 4, 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: Xinye

  • Internet architecture design discussion

  • Quiz (TCP/IP)

Week 3 (September 9 - September 13): DNS

• Monday September 9, lecture 4: DNS

• Wednesday September 11, 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: Evan

  • Quiz (DNS) 

  • DNS design discussion

Week 4 (September 16 - September 20): NTP

• Monday September 16, lecture 6: NTP

• Wednesday September 18, lecture 7: Paper presentation (NTP), quiz, and design discussion

  • 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: Spyros

  • Quiz (NTP) 

  • NTP design discussion

Week 5 (September 23 - September 27): No class (travel)

Week 6 (September 30 - October 4): Information-Centric Networking/Named-Data Networking (ICN/NDN) 

• Monday September 30, lecture 8: ICN/NDN

• Wednesday October 2, lecture 9: Paper presentation (ICN/NDN), quiz, and design discussion

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

  • Quiz (ICN/NDN)

  • ICN/NDN design discussion

• Friday October 4, 10PM: Deadline for project proposals

Week 7 (October 7 - October 11): Peer-to-peer networking 

• Monday October 7, lecture 10: Peer-to-Peer Networking

• Wednesday October 9, 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: Ryan

  • Quiz (peer-to-peer)

  • Peer-to-peer design discussion

Week 8 (October 14 - October 18): Project proposal presentations and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

• Monday October 14, lecture 12: Project Proposal Presentations

• Wednesday October 16, lecture 13: CDNs

Week 9 (October 21 - October 25): No class (mid-term break)

Week 10 (October 28 - November 1): Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• Monday October 28, lecture 14: Paper presentation (CDNs), quiz, and design discussion

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

  • Quiz (CDNs)

  • CDNs design discussion

• Wednesday October 30, lecture 15: Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Week 11 (November 4 - November 8): Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Cloud Computing

• Monday November 4, 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: Saeid

  • Quiz (SDN)

  • SDN design discussion

• Wednesday November 6, lecture 17: Cloud Computing

Week 12 (November 11 - November 15): Cloud computing and edge computing

• Monday November 11, 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: Athar

  • Quiz (cloud computing)

  • Cloud computing design discussion

• Wednesday November 13, lecture 19: Edge Computing

Week 13 (November 18 - November 22): Edge computing, Machine Learning (ML) for networking and networking for ML

• Monday November 18, lecture 20: 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: Rana

  • Quiz (edge computing)

  • Edge computing design discussion

• Wednesday November 20, lecture 21: ML for networking and networking for ML

Week 14 (November 25 - November 29): Machine Learning (ML) for networking and networking for ML

• Monday November 25, lecture 22:  Paper presentation, quiz, and design discussion

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

  • Quiz (ML for networking and networking for ML)

  • Design discussion

• Wednesday November 27, no class (Thanksgiving)

Week 15 (December 2 - December 6):  Final project presentations

• Monday December 2, lecture 23:  Final project presentations #1

• Wednesday December 4, lecture 24: Final project presentations #2

Week 16 (December 9 - December 13): Project final report

• Monday December 9: Backup lecture (if needed)

• Wednesday December 11: Backup lecture (if needed)

• Thursday December 12, 10PM: Project (report and code) submission deadline