Course Schedule

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

Lecture 1: Course Overview + Internet Design

Friday, February 3, 2023

Lecture 2: Network Layer + Switches/Routers

Friday, February 10, 2023

RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software Routers, SOSP 2009
Slides (pdf)

Lecture 3: Transport Layer + Congestion Control

Friday, February 17, 2023

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control, ACM Queue 2016
Slides (pdf)
Research project team formation due by 5pm ET

Lecture 4: Queue Management + Middleboxes

Friday, February 24, 2023

Lecture 5: Routing Algorithms + Convergence

Friday, March 3, 2023

OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks, ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2008
The Road to SDN: An Intellectual History of Programmable Networks, ACM Queue 2013
Forwarding Metamorphosis: Fast Programmable Match-Action Processing in Hardware for SDN, SIGCOMM 2013
SDN Slides (pdf)
RMT Slides (pdf)

Lecture 6: Interdomain Routing

Friday, March 10, 2023

Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World, SIGCOMM 2017
Optional reading: Don’t Mind the Gap: Bridging Network-wide Objectives and Device-level Configurations, SIGCOMM 2016
Research project proposal due by 5pm ET
Slides (pdf)

No Class: Spring Recess

Friday, March 17, 2023

Lecture 7: Network Measurement

Friday, March 24, 2023

Language-Directed Hardware Design for Network Performance Monitoring, SIGCOMM 2017
Slides (pdf)

Lecture 8: Video Streaming

Friday, March 31, 2023

A Control-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP, SIGCOMM 2015
Slides (pdf)

Lecture 9: Machine Learning for Networking

Friday, April 7, 2023

Genet: Automatic Curriculum Generation for Learning Adaptation in Networking, SIGCOMM 2022
Slides (pdf)

Lecture 10: Networking for Machine Learning

Friday, April 14, 2023

Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation, NSDI 2021
Take-Home Exam: April 11-12

Lecture 11: Network Security

Friday, April 21, 2023

DISCO: Sidestepping RPKI's Deployment Barriers, NDSS 2020

Lecture 12: Research Project Presentations

Friday, April 28, 2023