| Date |
|
Readings |
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| 9/9 Wed | Overview, goals, logistics, background | None assigned | PD96 for background |
| 9/14 Mon | Philosophy, layering pros and cons, ALF, cross-layer protocols | Cla88, Zim80, CT90 | History, CK74, the original TCP/IP paper |
| 9/16 Wed | Methodology: Design, end-to-end argument, analysis (experiment, theory) | SRC84, Bol93 | Also overview of BPF/tcpdump, traceroute, mtrace |
| 9/21 Mon | Methodology: simulation, implementation, evaluation | CK74, Pax96 | ns VINT overview, FP98 for simulation pitfalls. CT90 for ILP |
| 9/23 Wed | Congestion control principles: rate- & window-based controls, stability, additive-increase/multiplicative-decrease, reactive vs. proactive controls | CJ89 | Jai90 for an overview of congestion mgmt |
| 9/28 Mon | Congestion control practice: DECbit, TCP | RJ90, Jac88 | Also look at KP91 for RTT alg. and BP95 for TCP Vegas |
| 9/30 Wed | Queue management: RED, FQ, discussion of fairness, router policing | FJ93, DKS90, FF98 | Bra+98, the "RED manifesto," has more on policing |
| 10/2 Fri | Homework 1 assigned (email announcement) | ||
| 10/5 Mon | The Web: HTTP, HTTP/TCP interactions,
improving Web latency
Project proposals due by 5pm in NE43-305 (to Elliott Eggleston) |
PM95, N+97 | RFC1945 (HTTP 1.0), RFC2068 (HTTP/1.1) |
| 10/7 Wed | Unicast routing: virtual circuits, datagrams, distance-vector, link-state, hierarchical techniques (e.g., landmark), inter-domain routing | Nar89, Tsu88 | Hui96 select chapters |
| 10/8 | Meetings to discuss project proposals | Signup sheet outside NE43-510 | |
| 10/13 Tue
(Monday's schedule) |
Multicast: IGMP, DVMRP, PIM-SM, CBT | DC90, DE+94, BFC93 | Deering's PhD thesis. Multicast address alloc (H98) and MASC/BGMP(K+98) |
| 10/14 Wed | High-speed router design (fast lookups, Gigabit router design) | WVTP97, P+98 | BCDP97 for another algorithm, SV98 and LS98 for fast flow classification |
| 10/19 Mon | Mobility and wireless transport: Mobile
IP, Snoop, fast handoffs
Homework 1 due in class |
MJP95, BSK95 | CI95, BB97 |
| 10/21 Wed | Wireless media access: CSMA/CA, MACA, MACAW, Shepard's analysis | BDSZ94, She96 | 802.11 spec |
| 10/26 Mon | Adaptive multicast applications: RTP overview, IVS and RLM | BTW94, MJV96 | Notion of "TCP-friendliness" from FF98 |
| 10/28 Wed | Internet service model, incentives, uniform
vs. priority-drop
Homework 2 assigned |
She95, BBS98 | |
| 11/2 Mon | Beyond best-effort: ISPN, differentiated services | CSZ92, NJZ97 | RSVP paper (ZD+93), assured-service Internet
draft
Guest speaker: John Wroclawski |
| 11/4 Wed | Reliable multicast: applications, RMTP, SRM (protocol and ALF machinery) | LP96, FJM+97 | RMRG working group |
| 11/5, 11/6 | Meetings to discuss project progress; background research / related work and paper outline due | Location: NE43-510 | |
| 11/9 Mon | Reliable multicast: local recovery, Cisco's PGM, replier-based scheme, FEC, congestion control issues | Pap98, BLMR98 | VRC97 has an elegant congestion control scheme. Also see Golestani98 paper. |
| 11/11 Wed | No class (MIT holiday) | ||
| 11/16 Mon | Active networks: motivation, model, examples; active services | T+97, AMK98 | See CJ98 for commentaries about the end-to-end argument |
| 11/18 Wed | Middleware: Web caching, DNS, MBone session announcements | FCAB98, MD88 | RFC 2327 for SDP |
| 11/23 Mon | Network security: Web security overview,
IPsec, multicast key management
Homework 2 due in class |
RFC1825, Mit97 | Cheswick and Bellovin book; RL96 for SDSI |
| 11/25 Wed | Location-dependent applications, networks of devices and sensors | SLP98, HK98 | Jini98 (Jini), KLST96 (future workspaces), UCLA wireless sensor network project |
| 11/30 Mon | Self-similarity, protocol synchronization | LTWW94, FJ94 | PF96 (failure of wide-area Poisson modeling) |
| 12/2 Wed | End-to-end dynamics, SPAND | Pax97, SSK97 | Extensive backbone measurements in TMW98; CD+98 for multicast inference |
| 12/7 Mon | Project presentations (subject to change) | ||
| 12/9 Wed | Wrap-up, review, speculation | No reading yet | Intraplanet, embedded networks, smart dust/MEMS, Internet pricing,... |
| 12/17 Fri | Final project papers due by 4pm in NE43-510 |