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Office hours: Monday, Wednesday 2.50pm — 3.50pm in CS 2428 Instructor email: arunab@cs.stonybrook.edu TA: Javad Nejati (jnejati@cs.stonybrook.edu)
Announcement:
- Future announcements on Piazza
- The first class is cancelled due to snow. We meet on 1/28/2015.
- A tentative schedule is up.
- We will meet in CS 2129.
- Piazza is set up for class discussions. Sign up now.
- The course web page is up.
Description:
The goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in networking, focusing on networking protocols in the real world. We will go through the standard protocols in each layer of the OSI stack and discuss how the protocols are re-designed for different technologies. For example, HTTP 1.0 was designed when web pages were simpler. How do industry practitioners and researchers modify HTTP for a more complex web ecosystem?
We will discuss the key design patterns that emerge from the protocol redesign. Some example technologies/topics we will cover in this course are: Data Center TCP and Networking, new Web protocols including HTTP 2.0/SPDY, Network Virtualization, and Mobile architecture.
Textbooks:
There is no required textbook. If you would like to follow a text book, I recommend Computer Networks, A Top Down Approach by Kurose and Ross [KR] Another great book is: Computer Networks, by Andrew Tanenbaum and David Wetherall
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Grading:
The grading criteria is as follows:
Project: 35%
Paper summaries: 15%
Presentations: 20%
Class participation: 5%
Midterm: 15%
Assignments: 10%
Project: The project constitutes a third of your grade. Around 3 weeks into the semester, we will discuss possible project ideas. You should choose a project, present a project pitch, and then complete the project by the end of the semester. See the schedule below for project related deadlines.
I encourage students to do the project in groups of 2. If you want to do a project without any team members, come talk to me. For project sizes that are bigger than 2, I expect considerably more work.
Paper summaries: You will have at most 2 papers to read each week (see schedule below).
There are approximately 15 papers assigned for reading. For each paper, you are expected to provide a summary. More details on how to write a paper summary are up on Piazza.
For grading, I will choose the top 10 out of the 15 summaries.
Presentations: Students (typically in groups of 2) should present at least 1 paper during the semester. The presentation will last 35 minutes total with a 10 minute Q&A. More details on paper presentation and the talk schedules are up on Piazza.
In addition, each project group should present a 10 minute project pitch earlier in the semester, and a 10 minute project presentation towards the end of the semester.
Tentative Schedule:
| Date | Topic | Readings | Notes/PDF name in Piazza |
| 1/26/2015 | Introduction | No reading. | CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!! |
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Application Layer |
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| 1/28/2015 | HTTP/DNS/CDNs | KR 2.2 and 2.5 [Optional] | Lecture class. [lectapplication.pdf] First assignment out, Friday 1/30/2015 11.00pm. |
| 2/2/2015 | No class due to snow | CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!! | |
| 2/4/2015 | Advances in HTTP: SPDY/Quic | SPDY [Optional] | Lecture class [lect_spdy.pdf] |
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Transport Layer |
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| 2/9/2015 | TCP basics | KR 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 [Optional] | Lecture class [lect_tcp.pdf] |
| 2/11/2015 | TCP Ex-Machina | Ex-Machina [Required] | Lecture + Student presentation class Assignment 1 due by 11.00pm 2/13/2015. Assignment 2 is out. |
| 2/16/2015 | Detour: Introduction to Data Centers | DCTCP[Optional] DC Traffic[Optional] |
Lecture class [lect_datacenters.pdf] + Discussion of possible project ideas. |
| 2/18/2015 | Data Center TCP/Google’s TCP | D2TCP [Required], GoogleTCP [Optional] |
Lecture class + Student Presentation |
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Network Layer |
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| 2/23/2015 | Demo class | Discussions on Mininet, Emulab, NS2, WProf | |
| 2/25/2015 | Routing basics | KR 4.1, .3, 4.5, 4.6 [Optional] | Lecture class [lectnetworking.pdf] Assignment 2 due by 11.00pm 2/27/2015. |
| 3/2/2015 | PortLand + Route failures in the Internet | LifeGaurd [Required] | Lecture and Student Presentation class |
| 3/4/2015 | Routing in Data Centers | F10 [Required] + Portland [Optional] |
[lect_datacenter_networking.pdf] Lecture + Student Presentation class |
| 3/6/2015 (Friday make up class) | Project pitches | 10 min project pitches by students. | |
| 3/9/2015 | Project pitches continued | 10 min project pitches by students (early release) | |
| 3/11/2015 | Midterm (Open book/Open notes) | ||
| 3/16/2015 | Spring Break | No Class | |
| 3/18/2015 | Spring Break | No Class | |
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Switching Layer |
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| 3/23/2015 | SDN introduction | SDN History [Optional] | Lecture class [lect_switching.pdf, lect_sdns.pdf] |
| 3/25/2015 | Advances in SDNs | SDN1 [Required] | [lect_sdn_2.pdf] + Student Presentation |
| 3/27/2015 (Friday Makeup Class) | SDNs in the real world | SDN2 [Required] | Student Presentation |
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Physical layer |
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| 3/30/2015 | Wireless physical layer | Lecture class | |
| 4/1/2015 | Advances in Wireless: Full duplex wireless | Full Duplex [Required] | Student presentation & Lecture on mobile architectures Project progress due by 11.00pm 4/3/2015. |
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Mobile |
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| 4/6/2015 | Recap of application to physical layer + LTE | LTE [Required] | Lecture (lect_recap.pdf) + Student Presentation |
| 4/8/2015 | CANCELLED | Student presentation (EDIT: Class cancelled!!!) | |
| 4/13/2015 | Advances in LTE + Spectrum lecture | SmallCells [Required] | Student Presentation + Lecture on Spectrum (lect_whitespaces.pdf) |
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Hot Topics |
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| 4/15/2015 | Middleboxes, Whitespaces | Middlebox1 [Required], WhiteSpaces[Required] |
Student Presentations |
| 4/20/2015 | New data center architectures | Firefly [Required], Mirror[Required], Firefly extension |
Student Presentation class |
| 4/22/2015 | Censorship video lecture | VPNGate[Optiional] | Video lecture. No office hours. |
| 4/27/2015 | Information Centric Networks | ICN1 [Required], ICN2 [Optional] |
Student Presentation class |
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Projects |
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| 4/29/2015 | Extended office hours in CSE 2428 | Extended office hours | |
| 5/4/2015 | No class (Make up 5/8) | No class, no office hours | |
| 5/6/2015 | No class (Make up 5/8) | No class, no office hours | |
| 5/8/2015 | Double class. 3.00 to 5.40 | Project Presentation Project reports due 5/20 by 5 pm. |
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