Schedule

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
Jan 21 (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)
Jan 23 (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)
Jan 26 (Sun)		Deadline Sign up for paper presentation
Jan 28 (Tue)	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)
Jan 30 (Thu)	Class 4 Networking workshop (led by TA)
Feb 2 (Sun)		Deadline Submit project team roster
Feb 4 (Tue)	Class 5 Architectural principles	Required End-to-end argument (Saltzer et al., TOCS, 1984) Optional RFC 1958
Feb 6 (Thu)	Class 6 Classic congestion control	Required Congestion Avoidance and Control (Jacobson, SIGCOMM 1988) Optional Analysis of AIMD (Chiu et al., Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1989)
Feb 11 (Tue)	Class 7 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)
Feb 13 (Thu)	Class 8 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)
Feb 16 (Sun)		Deadline Submit project proposal
Feb 18 (Tue)	Class 9 Switches/routers	Required RouteBricks (Dobrescu et al., SOSP 2009) Optional A 50-Gb/s IP Router (Partridge et al., ToN 1998)
Feb 20 (Thu)	Class 10 SDN architecture	Required Ethane (Casado et al., SIGCOMM 2007) Optional OpenFlow (McKeown et al., CCR 2008) Onix (Koponen et al., OSDI 2010) Video: The Future of Networking (Shenker, ONS 2011)
Feb 25 (Tue)	Class 11 SDN use case	Required SWAN (Hong et al., SIGCOMM 2013) Optional B4 (Jain et al., SIGCOMM 2013) B4 and After (Hong et al., SIGCOMM 2018)
Feb 27 (Thu)	Class 12 Interdomain routing	Required Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination (Gao et al., SIGMETRICS 2000) Optional Anatomy of a Large European IXP (Ager et al., SIGCOMM 2012) BGP routing policies in ISP networks (Caesar et al., IEEE Network Magazine, 2005)
Mar 4 (Tue)	Class 13 Secure routing	Required How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? (Goldberg et al., SIGCOMM 2010) Optional Survey of BGP security (Butler et al., Proc. of the IEEE, 2010)
Mar 6 (Thu)	Class 14 Internet measurement	Required Inferring interdomain congestion (Dhamdhere et al., SIGCOMM 2018) Optional E2E Routing Behavior (Paxson, SIGCOMM 1996)
Mar 11 (Tue)	Class 15 First project check-in
Mar 13 (Thu)	Class 16 Video streaming	Required Puffer (Yan et al., NSDI 2020) Optional BBA (Huang et al., SIGCOMM 2014) MPC (Yin et al., SIGCOMM 2015) Pensieve (Mao et al., SIGCOMM 2017)
Spring break (Mar 18 & 20)
Mar 25 (Tue)	Class 17 ML for networking	Required Genet (Xia et al., SIGCOMM 2022) Optional PCC Vivace (Dong et al., NSDI 2018) Teal (Xu et al., SIGCOMM 2023)
Mar 27 (Thu)	Class 18 Datacenter networks	Required Clos (Al-Fares et al., SIGCOMM 2008) Optional Jupiter Evolving (Poutievski et al., SIGCOMM 2022) Facebook's BGP-based DC (Abhashkumar et al., NSDI 2021)
Apr 1 (Tue)	Class 19 Datacenter transport	Required NDP (Handley et al., SIGCOMM 2017) Optional Video: NDP visualization DCTCP (Alizadeh et al., SIGCOMM 2010) TIMELY (Mittal et al., SIGCOMM 2015)
Apr 3 (Thu)	Class 20 Datacenter network virtualization	Required NVP (Koponen et al., NSDI 2014) Optional VL2 (Greenberg et al., SIGCOMM 2009)
Apr 8 (Tue)	Class 21 Reliability	Required Evolve or Die (Govindan et al., SIGCOMM 2016) Optional DDC (Liu et al., NSDI 2013)
Apr 10 (Thu)	Class 22 Network verification (guest lecture by Ryan Beckett)	Required Batfish (Fogel et al., NSDI 2015) Optional HSA (Kazemian et al., NSDI 2012) VeriFlow (Khurshid et al., NSDI 2013)
Apr 11 (Fri)	Second project check-in
Apr 15 (Tue)	Class 23 Competing agents	Required Are we heading towards a BBR-dominant Internet? (Mishra et al., IMC 2022) Optional Selfish routing in Internet-like environments (Qiu et al., SIGCOMM 2003)
Apr 17 (Thu)	Class 24 Network simulation	Required CausalSim (Alomar et al., NSDI 2023) Optional Why we don't know how to simulate the internet (Paxson et al., Winter Simulation Conference 1997) m3 (Li et al., SIGCOMM 2024)
Apr 22 (Tue)	Class 25 Microservices	Required Autothrottle (Wang et al., NSDI 2024) Optional Leveraging service meshes (Ashok et al., HotNets 2021)
Apr 24 (Thu)	Class 26 Cellular networks (guest lecture by Xenofon Foukas)	Required Janus (Foukas et al., MobiCom 2023) Optional EdgeRIC (Ko et al., NSDI 2024) RadioSaber (Chen et al., NSDI 2023) SpotLight (Sun et al., MobiCom 2024)
Apr 29 (Tue)	Class 27 Video conferencing (guest lecture by Sadjad Fouladi)	Required Salsify (Fouladi et al., NSDI 2018) Optional GCC (Carlucci et al., MMSys 2016) Tambur (Rudow et al., NSDI 2023) Deadline Finalize participation log
May 1 (Thu)	Class 28 Final presentation (#1)
May 6 (Tue)	Class 29 Final presentation (#2)
May 15 (Thu)		Deadline Submit final paper