CS386M: Schedule and Lecture Notes

Unique number: 55840, Time: Tue Thu 3:30-5:00PM, Classroom: ENS 116

Instructor: Yin Zhang, Email: yzhang at cs.utexas.edu, Office hours: Tue Thu 2:00-3:00PM, Office: ACES 5.248

Teaching Assistant: Vacha Dave, Email: vacha at cs.utexas.edu, Hours: Fri 3:00-4:00PM, Desk: ENS 31NQ desk 3

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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	8/28	Course Overview; Signaling: Separation of Data and Control	Reading List [1-5]	0.pdf, 1-1.pdf
2	9/2	Project Ideas; State Management: Hard-state vs. Soft-state	Reading List [6-8]	1-2.pdf	Project Ideas
	9/4	Randomization	Reading List [9-13]	1-3.pdf	HW1 assigned.
3	9/9	Indirection	Reading List [14-17]	1-4.pdf
	9/11	Resource Multiplexing	Reading List [18-21]	1-5.pdf	Homework 1 Due.
4	9/16	Virtualization and Design for Scale	Reading List [22-27]	1-6.pdf, 1-7.pdf
	9/18	Introduction to MPLS		MPLS.pdf	Read Implementation Principles [28,29]
Part 2: Internet Design (Reference: Internet Design Papers)
5	9/23	Internet Design: End-to-End Principle	Reading List [30-31]	2-1.pdf	Project Proposal Due (by 11:59pm)
	9/25	Rethinking Internet Design	Reading List [32-34]	2-2.pdf
Part 3: Current Research Topics (Reference: Current Research Topics Papers)
6	9/30	P2P (I): DHTs	Reading List [35,36]	3-1.pdf
	10/2	P2P (II): Swarming	Reading List [37,38]	3-2.pdf
7	10/7	Internet routing behavior	Reading List [39,40]	3-3.pdf
	10/9	Configuration management	Reading List [41,42]	3-4a.pdf, 3-4b.pdf
8	10/14	Fault diagnosis	Reading List [43,44]	3-5.pdf	Mid-term Project Report Due
	10/16	Enterprise networks	Reading List [45,46]	3-6.pdf
9	10/21	Data center networking	Reading List [47,48]	3-7a.pdf, 3-7b.pdf
	10/23	High-speed traffic measurement	Reading List [49-51]	3-8.pdf
10	10/28	Network tomography	Reading List [52,53]	3-9.pdf
	10/30	Network location service	Reading List [54,55]	3-10.pdf	Mid-term Due
11	11/4	Network anomaly detection	Reading List [56-58]	3-11.pdf
	11/6	IP prefix hijacking	Reading List [59-61]	3-12a.pdf, 3-12b.pdf
12	11/11	Spam	Reading List [62,63]	3-13.pdf
	11/13	DDoS	Reading List [64,65]	3-14a.pdf, 3-14b.pdf
13	11/18	Anonymity	Reading List [66,67]	3-15.pdf
	11/20	Accountability	Reading List [68,69]	3-16.pdf
14	11/25	Social networks	Reading List [70-72]	3-17.pdf
	11/27	No class (Happy Thanksgiving!)
15	12/2	Final project presentation
	12/4	Final project presentation
	12/5				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.