CS386M: Schedule and Lecture Notes

Unique number: 54925, Time: Tue Thu 2:00-3:30PM, Classroom: WEL 3.260

Instructor: Yin Zhang, Email: yzhang at cs.utexas.edu, Office hours: Tue Thu 1-2PM, Office: ACES 5.248

Teaching Assistant: Han Hee Song, Email: hhsong at cs.utexas.edu, Hours: Mon 1-2PM, Desk: ACES 6.308

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The following is an approximate schedule for the semester. All dates are subject to change and may be updated in the future.

Wk	Date	Topic	Readings	Lecture Notes	Project and Homework
Part 0: Networking Review (Reference: Overview Books & Slides)
Part 1: Network Design Principles (Reference: Network Design Principles Papers)
1	8/27	Course Overview; Signaling: Separation of Data and Control	Reading List [1-5]	0.pdf, 1-1.pdf
2	9/1	Project Ideas		Project Ideas
	9/3	State Management: Hard-state vs. Soft-state	Reading List [6-8]	1-2.pdf	HW1 assigned.
3	9/8	Randomization	Reading List [9-13]	1-3.pdf
	9/10	Indirection	Reading List [14-17]	1-4.pdf	HW1 due (before class)
4	9/15	Resource Multiplexing	Reading List [18-21]	1-5.pdf
	9/17	Virtualization and Design for Scale	Reading List [22-27]	1-6.pdf, 1-7.pdf	Read Implementation Principles [28,29]
Part 2: Internet Design (Reference: Internet Design Papers)
5	9/22	Internet Design: End-to-End Principle	Reading List [30-31]	2-1.pdf	Project Proposal Due (by 11:59pm)
	9/24	Rethinking Internet Design	Reading List [32-34]	2-2.pdf
6	9/29	Introduction to MPLS		2-3.pdf	HW2 assigned.
Part 3: Current Research Topics (Reference: Current Research Topics Papers)
6	10/1	P2P (I): DHTs	Reading List [35,36]	3-1.pdf
7	10/6	P2P (II): Swarming	Reading List [37,38]	3-2.pdf		HW2 due (before class)
	10/8	Internet routing behavior	Reading List [39,40]	3-3.pdf
8	10/13	Configuration management	Reading List [41,42]	3-4a.pdf, 3-4b.pdf
	10/15	Fault diagnosis	Reading List [43,44]	3-5.pdf
9	10/20	Enterprise networks	Reading List [45,46]	3-6.pdf
	10/22	Cloud computing	Reading List [47,48]	3-7.pdf		Mid-term Project Report Due
10	10/27	High-speed traffic measurement	Reading List [49-51]	3-8.pdf		Mid-term assigned.
	10/29	Network tomography	Reading List [52,53]	3-9.pdf
11	11/3	Network location service	Reading List [54,55]	3-10.pdf		Mid-term Due
	11/5	Original Plan: Network anomaly detection Guest lecture by Prof. Lili Qiu: RFID technologies.	Reading List [56-58]	3-11.pdf, rfid.pdf
12	11/10	IP prefix hijacking	Reading List [59-61]	3-12a.pdf, 3-12b.pdf
	11/12	SPAM	Reading List [62,63]	3-13.pdf
13	11/17	DDoS	Reading List [64,65]	3-14a.pdf, 3-14b.pdf
	11/19	Accountability	Reading List [66,67]	3-15.pdf
14	11/24	Social networks	Reading List [68-70]	3-16.pdf
	11/26	No class (Happy Thanksgiving!)
15	12/1	Final project presentation
	12/3	Final project presentation
	12/4	Final project presentation (Extra Class!! 2-3:30PM, RLM 5.112)			Final Project Report Due (by 11:59pm)

** All homework assignments should be submitted in hard copy to the TA at the beginning of class on due date.