R02 ACS MPhil - Network Architectures Third Essay (Set Nov 30, due Jan 19) Scalability This essay is about scalability of network architectures. The two papers I'd like you to write about are at two different levels, one very much at the language level, and the other concerning things closer to the run-time environment, but still connected with an (intermediate) language. First, outline the key contributions from each paper, and try to set a bit of context for the work. Then critique the work, especially with regards the plausibility of any model or evaluation. Finally, what do you see as the pro and con arguments for the proposals in each paper, and are there visible complementarities? Models for a self-managed Internet- SMI http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/PAPERS/smi.pdf Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance NDP (sigcomm 2017) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098825 or http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1718/R02/papers/p29-Handley.pdf Again, the essay can be in the form of notes, if you prefer that to long sentences/parageraphs. tables/diagrams welcome, extracts from the papers are fine if attributed, and cite any other relevant work you read while carrying out this assignment.