Network Architectures
This is a paper reading seminar style course - there will be a schedule giving the list of work to read and who is assigned to which paper each week.
There's a great book for background reading to kickoff, by Dave Clark from MIT on network architecture(s) which I highly recomend.
schedule of when you will be speaking, and link to papers you'll be talking about.
Student's speaking assignments are to give a 20-25 minute prepared talk on the paper. I am very happy to discuss paper assignments and talks beforehand. Advice on critical reading/reviewing, writing, presenting a paper is offered in the Research Skills Programme
We'll go through these topics at roughly one per week.
One thing I'd like readers to bear in mind is that one can take an evolutionary approach to network architecture change, or one can try to be revolutionary. In discussing a given paper, try to see which approach it is taking and whether this supports or undermines the viability of the proposed idea - this notion originated with Constantine Dovrolis and Jenifer Rexford in this nice counterpoint discussion. An important evolutionary refinement is Punctuated Equilibrium: which may be how technology (including networks) evolve really.
A very interesting complex systems/systems bio/eco/evolutionary view on how layered architectures evolve is this paper on Architecture, constraints, and behavior by John C. Doyle and Marie Cseteb.
Interesting reading are the papers in this workshop on the impact of the pandemic on teaching networking
Forwarding/Addressing & IPv6 & The Internet Architecture for Oct 12 & 14
- The Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) (not to be confused with the internet telephony SIP:-))
- Paul's Internet Protocol
- recent workshop report on future internet
For IPv6 evolution, see also:
Radical Alternatives to The Internet Architecture Oct 19/21
Background for Essay 1 for Nov 9
See Essay 1
Wireless and Mobile- Oct 26/Oct 28 Lecture & Talk
See also notes on IPv6 deployment challenges and Tussle in Cyberspace and Survey and Systematization of Secure Device Pairing
ML and Networks Nov 2/Nov 4
Topology - to Nov 9/Nov 11 Lecture & Talk
Background for Essay 2 for Dec 4
See Essay 2
Data Centers Nov 16/Nov 18
Transport/End-to-End or Cascades -- Nov 23/Nov 25
And on the thursday, there's two talks by two of you:
Cascades and Cross Layer, and Wrapup Nov 30/Dec 2
Background for Essay 3 for Jan 19, 2021
See Essay 3
Please advise if you find any missing or incorrect links here to me
Last year’s course materials are still available.