R02 ACS MPhil - Network Architectures
Second Essay (Set Nov 7, due Dec 2)

Background to TAPS

"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2021/R02/slides/in5150_taps.pptx"
and
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending-posix-end-era


Michael Welzl, Safiqul Islam, Michael Gundersen, Andreas Fischer: "Transport Services: A Mod
ern API for an Adaptive Internet Transport Layer", IEEE Communications Magazine 59(4), April
 2021. DOI 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000870
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9433510

Three crazy things people could do with TAPS

be an interface to RINA:
Kristjon Ciko, Michael Welzl, Marcel Marek: "TAPS and RINA: Do they fit together?", 7th Inte
rnational Workshop on the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA 2020), co-located with I
EEE ICIN 2020, Paris, France, 24 February 2020. DOI 10.1109/ICIN48450.2020.9059406
https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/michawe/research/publications/taps_rina_2020_preprint.pdf

be an interface to SCION:
Thorben Krüger and David Hausheer. 2021. Towards an API for the Path-Aware Internet. In Proc
eedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration (NAI'21). Associ
ation for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 68–72. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472727.347
2808
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472727.3472808

let end hosts participate in network slicing decisions:
Alexander Rabitsch, George Xilouris, Themistoklis Anagnostopoulos, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Than
os Sarlas, Anna Brunstrom, Özgü Alay, and Giuseppe Caso. 2021. Extending network slice manag
ement to the end-host. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on 5G Measurements, Modeling, and 
Use Cases (5G-MeMU '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 20–26. http
s://doi.org/10.1145/3472771.3472775
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472771.3472775

As per the general rules, essays are 2-4 pages, should cite all sources,
and can be in note form - the use of tables (for comparisons) and
diagrams (for clarity) is encouraged.

Background TOR, traceroute etc, etc