Course pages 2016–17
Computer Networking
PDF bundle for Slide Set 1 (Topic 1 through 7) as 6-up PDF Updated: 2016-11-16
Topic 1 Introduction / Foundation pptx pdf Updated: 2016-11-16
Topic 2 Architecture and Internet pptx pdf Updated: 2016-11-16
Topic 3 Physical and Data-Link Layer pptx pdf Updated: 2016-11-16
Supervision Handouts
2016-17 Supervison Questions PDF
Topic-specific material
Topic 1 - Foundation (Introduction)
- How long is a nanosecond? Grace Hooper on YouTube
- Grace Hopper on Letterman on YouTube
- Trying to explain the interconnectedness of the Internet to your parents/grand-parents? The Internet Revealed Disclaimer: this is very IXP-centric, funded as it is by Euro-IX, the body representing a big bunch of IXPs. Trivia: LINX (London IXP) has been the worlds largest IXP by traffic, customers, and peerings).
- As mentioned in lecture 2 - Gibbens,Kelly/Key Dynamic Alyternative Routing Frank's page here
- Travelling waves on the motorway here, here and here
Topic 2 - Foundations and Architecture
- End-to-End Arguments in System Design, Saltzer, J., Reed, D., and Clark, D.D., Second International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (April 1981) pages 509-512, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1984, Vol. 2, No. 4, November, pp. 277-288 PDF
- Andrew D. Birrell and Bruce Jay Nelson, "Implementing remote procedure calls", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2(1), 1984, (PDF)
- David Tennenhouse, "Layered Multiplexing Considered Harmful", Protocols for High-Speed Networks, Rudin and Williamson (Editors), NorthHolland, Amsterdam, 1989 (PDF)
Topic 3 - Data-Link (Media Access) and Physical
- R Metcalfe and D Boggs, "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks", ACM Computer Systems, 1976. (PDF)
- Hedey Lamarr Google doodle here
Topic 4 - Networks (warning some silliness)
- A detailed discussion of how BGP mistakes lead to YouTube hijacking Hijacking the Internet
- Following on from How do we size buffers in the Internet? Jim Getty'sBuffer Bloat page. Buffer bloat project page.
- IPv4 address space is virtually exhausted..... news at 11; lecture material around Topic 4. This web page points to many of the "the Internet is about to end.... Doom I tell you....." gadgets and pages on the Internet.
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The Day The Routers Died... from RIPE 55 network operators meetings in 2007. - Internet Kill Switch
- IPv6 is still broken, or missing, in most vendors' consumer network gear
- A Few of my favorite things Delightful video by the people at CAIDA while a little dated, the issues of bad decisions, bad law and the simple wonder of the Internet carry on.
- Tom Edsall Interview "Talking about switches" from the Stanford CS144 course Fall 2014 youtube
- Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson, "The Syncronization of Period Routing Messages", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2(2), p. 122-136, April 1994. (PDF)
- Vern Paxson and Sally Floyd, "Wide-Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 3(3), 1995 (PDF)
- A comparison of different VPN security protocols here
Topic 5 - Transport
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A quicktime video of TCP video thing presentation is available HERE Notes about the movie are available here. You may wish to open two browser windows: one for the movie and one for the notes.
- Van Jacobson and Michael J. Karels, "Congestion Aviodance and Control", (PDF) slightly revised version of Jacobson, V. Congestion avoidance and control. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM 88 ( Stanford, CA, Aug. 1988), ACM.
Topic 6 - Applications
- Varnish is a front-facing cache. Poul-Henning Kamp is it's primary author/architect, he wrote this interesting piece on VM, not specifically relevant for CompNet but certainly relevant to
- Tim Berners Lee's machine at CERN
- DNS Measurements at a Root Server
- Skype post-mortem on their December 2010 outage
- Speed testing HTTP vs HTTPS
- A popular press article about how to scale the servers when some popular (IMHO rubbish) attempts to break the internet SFW here
- An excellent demo of both the SPDY (HTTP/2) standard and of the impact of latency upon web stuff here
Topic 7 - Data Centers
- Luiz Barroso ISCA 2011 Keynote "Warehouse-Scale computing: Entering the Teenage Decade" (ACM website)
- NetFPGA Project website
- Google datacenter street view (its so close to an advert... so apologies for that) Lots of boxes
- Better is just doing the street view yourself, go hunt the easter eggs...streetview
- Interesting article about DC design refering to facebook here with a media puff piece summary here