Schedule

Note: To submit summaries, click on for each paper. Summaries are due before class the day the paper is listed.

Date Topic Papers Slides Deadlines
Aug 23 Overview: Introduction to the Internet
OSI Reference Model - The ISO Model of Architecture for Open Systems Interconnection
Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
 Lecture 1  
Aug 28 How to read and present papers   slides  
Aug 30 End-to-End Design
End-to-end Arguments in System Design
Architectural Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols
Rise of the Stupid Network
 Lecture 2 Sign up for initial project meetings
Sep 4 Data Link Layer / Medium Access Control
Ethernet
IEEE 802.11
Distributed Fair Scheduling in a Wireless LAN
MAC, DFS Indicate preferences for class presentations
Sep 6  
Versatile Low Power Media Access for Wireless Sensor Networks
UWAN-MAC: An energy-efficient MAC protocol for underwater acoustic wireless networks
B-MAC  
Sep 11 Routing: Intro
Internet Routing
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)
IPv6: The New Internet Protocol
 Routing, IPv6  
Sep 13 Routing: Internet
The revised ARPANET routing metric
The End-to-End Effects of Internet Path Selection
Routing stability in congested networks: Experimentation and analysis
 BGP, E2E Effects  
Sep 18  
Improving the Reliability of Internet Paths with One-hop Source Routing
A Measurement Study on the Impact of Routing Events on End-to-End Internet Path Performance
Presenter (One-Hop): Riccardo Crepaldi, Presenter (Measurement): Jay Patel  
Sep 20 Routing: Wireless Ad Hoc
A Review of Current Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks
Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing for Wireless Networks
Presenter (GPSR): Esteban Meneses Initial project proposals due
Sep 25  
Contention-Aware Admission Control for Ad Hoc Networks
Heuristic Approaches to Energy-Efficient Network Design
Presenter (Energy): Farhana Ashraf  
Sep 27 Routing: Mesh Networks
Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks
Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network
Presenter (Multi-hop): Sam Nelson, Presenter (802.11): Maryam Rahmani  
Oct 2 Routing: DTN
Using Redundancy to Cope with Failures in a Delay Tolerant Network
Routing Algorithms for Delay-insensitive and Delay-sensitive Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks
Presenter (Redundancy): Nabil Schear, Presenter (Underwater): Yusuf Sarwar  
Oct 4 Content Distribution
Multicast Routing in Datagram Internetworks and Extended LANs
Intra- and Inter-Domain Multicast Routing Protocols: A Survey and Taxonomy
   Extended project proposals due
Oct 9  
A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols
A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data
   
Oct 11  
A Case For End System Multicast
The Dynamic Behavior of a Data Dissemination Protocol for Network Programming at Scale
Presenter (Scale): Riccardo Crepaldi  
Oct 16 Content Sharing
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
A Scalable Content Addressable Network
Presenter (Chord): Sam Nelson, Presenter (CAN): Imranul Hoque  
Oct 18  
Resilient Overlay Networks
Load Balancing in Dynamic Structured P2P Systems
Presenter (RON): Esteban Meneses, Presenter (P2P): Jay Patel  
Oct 23 Content Collection
TAG: a Tiny AGgregation service for ad-hoc sensor networks
Directed diffusion: A scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
Presenter (TAG): Yusuf Sarwar, Presenter (DD): Imranul Hoque  
Oct 25  
Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks
Presenter (Mules): Mehedi Bakht  
Oct 30 Transport Protocols and Congestion Control

 
Congestion Avoidance and Control
RFC 2001
TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet
TCP Vegas Revisited 
 Presenter (Vegas): Maryam Rahmani  
Nov 1  
Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP  
Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation  
   Project updates due
Nov 6  
Understanding the Performance of TCP Pacing
Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications
Presenter (Pacing): Mehedi Bakht  
Nov 8  
End-to-end available bandwidth: Measurement methodology, dynamics, and relation with tcp throughput
User-level Internet path diagnosis
Presenter (TCP): Farhana Ashraf, Presenter (Path): Fariba Khan  
Nov 13  
TCP in Wired-cum-Wireless Environments
New techniques for making transport protocols robust to corruption-based loss
   
Nov 15 Quality and Fairness
Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm  
Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance  
    
Nov 20

Thanksgiving Break
Nov 22
Nov 27  
Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet
Core-Stateless Fair Queueing: A Scalable Architecture to Approximate Fair Bandwidth Allocations in High Speed Networks
Presenter (CSFQ): Omid Fatemieh  
Nov 29 Security
Milk or Wine: Does Software Security Improve with Age?
Hop-Count Filtering: An Effective Defense Against Spoofed Traffic
How to Set Up a Secure Wireless Network in Under a Minute
    
Dec 4  
Zero-Interaction Authentication
The Final Nail in WEP's Coffin
Presenter (WEP): Nabil Schear  
Dec 6  
Vigilante: End-to-end containment of Internet worms
COCA: A secure distributed on-line certification authority
Presenter (Vigilante): Omid Fatemieh, Presenter (COCA): Fariba Khan Final project reports due