Computer Systems Performance Evaluation TCP/IP

• Computer Systems Performance Evaluation (1 week)
    Sept 20 Performance Evaluation 101 (PowerPoint, 50 KB)
    Sept 20 Example 0: Web Server Benchmarking paper (PDF, 420 KB)
    Sept 20 Example 1: Buffer Management (PowerPoint, 23 KB) partitioned.c shared.c
    Sept 20 Example 2: Web Proxy Caching (PowerPoint, 25 KB)
    Sept 20 Example 3: Web Server Load Balancing (PowerPoint, 24 KB) Clustered Web Server paper (PDF, 800 KB)
    Sept 22 Performance Evaluation 201 (PowerPoint, 80 KB)
    Sept 22 Example 4: Mobile Multicast (MoM) Protocol (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
    Sept 22 Project Brainstorming Ideas (PowerPoint, 70 KB)


• TCP/IP Protocol Performance (1 week)
    Sept 27 TCP Protocol (PowerPoint, 190 KB)
    Sept 27 TCP 101 (PowerPoint, 140 KB)
    Sept 27 TCP Sequence Number Plots (PowerPoint, 220 KB) tcpexample.dat conn1047.dat client1047.dat server1047.dat conn1047.pdf 
  conn1.pdf conn2.pdf conn3.pdf (PDF)
    Sept 29 Padhye et al. SIGCOMM 1998 paper on TCP Reno Modeling (PDF)
    Sept 29 Wireless TCP (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB) 
• Wireless Networks (2.5 weeks)
    Oct 4 Introduction to Wireless Networking (PowerPoint, 164 KB)
    Oct 4 IEEE 802.11b Wireless LANs (PowerPoint, 100 KB)
    Oct 4 Tutorial on Wireless Internet Protocols and Performance (PowerPoint, 1.8 MB)
    Oct 6 Wireless TCP Issues (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
    Oct 6 IEEE 802.11 Throughput Analysis (Jun et al paper)
    Oct 11 Campus Wireless LAN Measurements (Schwab/Bunt paper)
    Oct 13 Multi-Rate Multi-Channel MAC Protocols (PowerPoint, 1.2 MB)
    Oct 13 Portable Networks and Wireless Web Performance (PowerPoint, 2.5 MB)
    Oct 18 TCP Performance over Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (PowerPoint, 420 KB)
    Oct 18 Bidirectional Multichannel MAC Protocols (PowerPoint, 1.7 MB)
    Oct 18 Wireless Mesh Networks (Akyildiz paper)
    Oct 20 Guest Lecture: Network Coding Theory (Zongpeng Li)
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks (1 week)
    Oct 25 Introduction to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (PowerPoint, 75 KB)
    Oct 25 Cell Networking (PowerPoint, 180 KB)
    Oct 25 Overview of ATM Signalling (PowerPoint, 320 KB)
    Oct 25 ATM Terminology (PowerPoint, 70 KB)
    Oct 25 ATM Adaptation Layer (PowerPoint, 58 KB)
    Oct 27 ATM Switching Overview (PowerPoint, 55 KB)
    Oct 27 ATM Switch Architectures (PowerPoint, 95 KB)
    Oct 27 Example: Delta MIN (PowerPoint, 900 KB)
    Oct 27 ATM Traffic Management (PowerPoint, 480 KB)
    Oct 27 Connection Admission Control (PowerPoint, 130 KB)


• Network Traffic Measurement (2 weeks)
    Nov 1 Network Traffic Measurement and Modeling (PowerPoint, 58 KB)
    Nov 1 LAN Measurement Study (PowerPoint, 28 KB)
    Nov 1 WAN Measurement Study (PowerPoint, 35 KB)
    Nov 1 Internet Traffic Measurement (Internet Computing article)
    Nov 3 Network Traffic Measurement (Paxson IMC 2004 article)
    Nov 8 Network Traffic Self-Similarity (PowerPoint, 220 KB)
    Nov 8 Self-Similar LAN Traffic (PowerPoint, 31 KB)
    Nov 8 Self-Similar WAN Traffic (PowerPoint, 30 KB)
    Nov 8 Self-Similar Video Traffic (PowerPoint, 24 KB)
    Nov 10 Reading Days. No lectures.
    Nov 15 Network traffic self-similarity discussion (notes and demo)
    Nov 15 Multifractal Traffic and Wavelet-based Models (PowerPoint, 160 KB)


• Web Performance (1 week)
    Nov 17 Web workload characterization and modeling (notes and demo)
    Nov 17 Web Server Request Scheduling (PowerPoint, 1.5 MB)