Course Syllabus and Lecture Notes
Course lecture notes will appear here as the semester progresses.
- Introduction, Networking Terminology, Internet Evolution (1 week)
Course outline. Overview of the Internet and its TCP/IP protocol stack.
Jan 15 Introduction and Course Overview (PowerPoint, 70 KB)
Jan 15 Networking Research Topics (PowerPoint, 1.8 MB)
Jan 17 Networking Basics and Internet Protocol Stack (PowerPoint, 85 KB)
Jan 17 TCP Protocol (PowerPoint, 190 KB)
Jan 17 HTTP Protocol (PowerPoint, 180 KB)
- Computer Systems Performance Evaluation (1 week)
Introduction to the basic methodologies of performance evaluation, with examples.
Jan 22 Performance Evaluation 101 (PowerPoint, 40 KB)
Jan 22 Example 1: Buffer Management (PowerPoint, 23 KB)
Jan 22 Example 2: Web Proxy Caching (PowerPoint, 25 KB)
Jan 22 Example 3: Web Server Load Balancing (PowerPoint, 24 KB)
Jan 24 Performance Evaluation 201 (PowerPoint, 80 KB)
Jan 24 Example 4: Mobile Multicast (MoM) Protocol (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
- TCP/IP Protocol Performance (1 week)
Evolution of TCP variants. TCP sequence number plots. TCP performance modeling.
Jan 29 TCP Sequence Number Plots (PowerPoint, 220 KB)
Jan 31 Padhye et al. SIGCOMM 1998 paper on TCP Reno Modeling (PDF)
- Wireless Networks (2 weeks)
IEEE 802.11b Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Wireless TCP performance issues. Wireless ad hoc networks.
Feb 5 Introduction to Wireless Networking (PowerPoint, 164 KB)
Feb 5 IEEE 802.11b Wireless LANs (PowerPoint, 100 KB)
Feb 5 IEEE 802.11 Throughput Analysis (Jun et al paper)
Feb 7 Wireless TCP Issues (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB)
Feb 7 Wireless Fairness Issues (Pilosof et al paper)
Feb 7 TCP Performance over Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (PowerPoint, 420 KB)
Feb 12 Bidirectional MAC Protocols (PowerPoint, 1.7 MB)
Feb 12 Multi-Rate Multi-Channel MAC Protocols (PowerPoint, 1.2 MB)
Feb 14 Wireless Networking Assumptions (Kotz paper)
Feb 14 Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks (Liu paper)
Feb 19 and Feb 21 Reading week. No lectures.
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks (1 week)
ATM concepts, Cell-switching, Quality of Service, ATM switch design, protocol performance issues.
Feb 26 Introduction to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (PowerPoint, 75 KB)
Feb 26 Cell Networking (PowerPoint, 180 KB)
Feb 26 Overview of ATM Signalling (PowerPoint, 320 KB)
Feb 26 ATM Terminology (PowerPoint, 70 KB)
Feb 28 ATM Switching Overview (PowerPoint, 55 KB)
Feb 28 ATM Switch Architectures (PowerPoint, 95 KB)
Feb 28 ATM Traffic Management (PowerPoint, 480 KB)
Feb 28 Connection Admission Control (PowerPoint, 130 KB)
- Network Traffic Measurement and Modeling (2 weeks)
Network traffic measurement techniques. Network traffic self-similarity. LAN and WAN measurements. WLAN measurements.
Mar 4 Internet Traffic Measurement (Internet Computing article)
Mar 4 Network Traffic Measurement and Modeling (PowerPoint, 58 KB)
Mar 4 LAN Measurement Study (PowerPoint, 28 KB)
Mar 4 WAN Measurement Study (PowerPoint, 35 KB)
Mar 6 Campus Wireless LAN Measurements (Schwab/Bunt paper)
Mar 6 Network Traffic Measurement (Paxson IMC 2004 article)
Mar 11 Network Traffic Self-Similarity (PowerPoint, 220 KB)
Mar 11 Self-Similar LAN Traffic (PowerPoint, 31 KB)
Mar 11 Self-Similar WAN Traffic (PowerPoint, 30 KB)
Mar 13 Network traffic self-similarity discussion (notes and demo)
Mar 13 Multifractal Traffic and Wavelet-based Models (PowerPoint, 160 KB)
- Student Presentations (3 weeks)
Selected papers from the recent networking literature. Schedule for Presentations
- Web and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems (1 week)
Web performance issues. P2P architectures. P2P file sharing. P2P streaming. Analysis of P2P systems.
Apr 10 P2P vs ISP Tussle (IFIP Performance 2007) paper (PDF, 1.5 MB) slides (PDF, 420 KB)
Apr 15 Comparing Web and P2P Traffic (WWW 2008) paper (PDF, 4.0 MB) slides (PowerPoint, 2.9 MB)
Apr 17 No class. Projects due today at 4pm!
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