Schedule (TBA)

The schedule is subject to change over the course of the semester. All deadlines are at 11:59pm (CT) by default.

Date	Topic	Readings & Action Items
Aug 26 (Tue)	Class 1 Course overview, paper reading and critiquing	Required Syllabus How to read a paper (Keshav, CCR 2007) (no review) Optional A brief history of the Internet (Leiner et al., 1997)
Aug 28 (Thu)	Class 2 Networking review and challenges	Required Browse the programs of recent HotNets (2024, 2023, 2022) and skim 4 papers that intrigue you. Optional Why the Internet only just works (Handley, BT Technology Journal, 2006)
Sep 2 (Tue)		Deadline Sign up for paper presentation
Sep 4 (Thu)	Class 3 IP architecture	Required DARPA Design Philosophy (Clark, SIGCOMM 1988) Optional A protocol for packet network intercommunication (Cerf et al., IEEE Trans. on Comm., 1974)
Sep 7 (Sun)		Deadline Submit project team roster
Sep 9 (Tue)	Class 4 Architectural principles	Required End-to-end argument (Saltzer et al., TOCS, 1984) Optional RFC 1958
Sep 11 (Thu)	Class 5 Classic congestion control	Required Congestion Avoidance and Control (Jacobson, SIGCOMM 1988) Optional Analysis of AIMD (Chiu et al., Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1989)
Sep 16 (Tue)	Class 6 Modern congestion control	Required BBR (Cardwell et al., ACM Queue, 2016) Optional Copa (Arun et al., NSDI 2018) Pantheon (Yan et al., USENIX ATC 2018)
Sep 18 (Thu)	Class 7 Queue management	Required CoDel (Nichols et al., ACM Queue, 2012) Optional Bufferbloat (Gettys et al., ACM Queue 2011) Sizing Router Buffers (Appenzeller et al., SIGCOMM 2004)
Sep 21 (Sun)		Deadline Submit project proposal