Network Architectures
Lectures happpen on tursdays and thursdays ini FS07 at 3pm. They are recorded via zoom (to view remotely see moodle for zoom link, i plus recordings will be here - missed lecture 5 but recmmend David Tse's Qualcomm lectures e.g. wireless capacity I and II
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. I also recommend this great talk by Scott Shenker on the future for software defined networks - essentially why computer science more than ever has relevance in communications systems.
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 7 & 12
- 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 14
Background for Essay 1 for Nov 8
See Essay 1
Wireless and Mobile- Oct 19/Oct 21 Lecture & Talk
See also notes on IPv6 deployment challenges and Tussle in Cyberspace and Survey and Systematization of Secure Device Pairing
ML and Networks Oct 26/Oct 28
physical considerations for networks also happens in fixed networks, as in this paper on critical regions Impact of Human Mobility on Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms describes the arbitrary delays you get with the store-carry-forward paradigm!
Topology - to Nov 2/Nov 4 Lecture & Talk
Background for Essay 2 for Dec 4
See Essay 2
Data Centers Nov 9/Nov 11
Transport/End-to-End or Cascades -- Nov 16/Nov 18
Cascades and Cross Layer -- Nov 23/Nov 25
Wrap up - Nov 30
Last year’s course materials are still available.