EECS-395/495 - Detailed Schedule

The entire class time will be dedicated to presenting and discussing an interesting paper pushing distributed systems into "uncomfortable corners".

1. Welcome to Distributed Systems in Challenging Environments
   

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2. The network underneath
1. Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System, by J. John, E. Katz-Bassett, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Aderson and A. Venkataramani. In Proc. of NSDI, 2008
   Presenter (Date): Fabián (01/05)
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   Useful links

   • BGP Tutorial
   • Understanding BGP MisconfigurationLink2, by Ratul Mahajan, David Wetheral and Tom Anderson. In Proc. of SIGCOMM, 2002
   • Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System, M. Chandy and L. Lamport, ACM TOCS 3(1):63-75.
   • Paxos made simple, L. Lamport. ACM SIGACT News 32(4):51-58.

2. Internet Inter-Domain Traffic, by C. Labovitz, S. Lekel-Johnson, D. McPherson, J. Oberheideand F. Jahanian, In Proc. of SIGCOMM 2010
   Presenter (Date): Mario Sánchez (01/10)
   Slides [.pdf]
3. Networking Named Content, by V. Jacobson, D. Smetters, J. Thornton, M. Plass, N. Briggs, and R. Braynard, In Proc. of CoNext 2009
   Presenter (Date): John Rula (01/12)
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3. A view from the edge
1. On Dominant Characteristics of Residential Broadband Internet Traffic, G. Maier, A. Feldmann, V. Paxson and M. Allman. In Proc. of IMC 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Zach Bischof (01/19)
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2. Netalyzr: Illuminating the Edge Network, C. Kreibich, N. Weaver, B. Nechaev and V. Paxson. In Proc. of IMC 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Ling Su (01/24)
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4. In the wild
1. Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild, by T. Benson, A. Akella and D. Maltz. In Proc. of IMC 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Xitao Wen (01/26)
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2. Understanding Online Social Network Usage from a Network Perspective, by F. Schneider, A. Feldman, B. Krishnamurthy and W. Willinger. In Proc. of IMC 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Gregory Peaker (01/31)
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5. Directing traffic in the dark
1. Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance, by R. Krishan and H. Madhyastha, S. Srinivasan, S. Jain, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Anderson and J. Gao. In Proc. of IMC 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Nicoara Talpes (02/07)
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2. Improving Content Delivery Using Provider-Aided Distance Information, by I. Poese, B. Frank, B. Ager, G. Smaragdakis and A. Feldmann. In Proc. of IMC 2010.
   Presenter (Date): John Rula (02/10)
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6. Strange places
1. The Bird's Nest: Measurements of Large-scale Live VoD from the 2008 Olympics, by H. Yin, X. Liu, F. Qiu, N. Xia, C. Lin, H. Zhang, V. Sekar and G. Min. In Proc. of IMC 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Ted Stein (02/14)
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2. Donnybrook: Enabling large-scale, high-speed, peer-to-peer games, by A. Bharambe, J. Doucer, J. Lorch, T. Moscibroda, J. Pang, S. Seshan and X. Zhuang. In Proc. of SIGCOMM 2008.
   Presenter (Date): Andy Gocke (02/16)
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7. It's all green
1. Greening the Internet with Nano Data Centers, by V. Valancius, N. Laoutaris, L. Massoulié, C. Diot and P. Rodriguez. In Proc. of CoNext 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Mario Sánchez (02/21)
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2. Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems, by A. Qureshi, R. Weber, H. Balakrishnan, J. Guttag and B. Maggs. In Proc. of SIGCOMM 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Balasaheb Bagul (02/23)
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8. Coordination and debugging
1. Macrodebugging: Global Views of Distributed Program Execution, T. Sookoor, T. Hnat, P. Hooimeijer, W. Weimer, and K. Whitehouse. In Proc. of SenSys 2009.
   Presenter (Date): Wei-Chih Lai (02/28)
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2. ZooKeeper: Wait-free Coordination for Internet-scale Systems, by P. Hunt, M. Konar, F. Junqueira and B. Reed. In Proc. of USENIX ATC 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Ted Stein (03/02)
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9. Pains of an interconnected world
1. BotGrep: Finding P2P Bots with Structured Graph Analysis, by Shishir Nagaraja, Prateek Mittal, Chi-Yao Hong, Matthew Caesar and Nikita Borisov. In Proc. of USENIX Security 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Aditi Bose (03/07)
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2. Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content, Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster and Santosh Vempala. In Proc. of USENIX Security 2010.
   Presenter (Date): Clint Sbisa (03/09)
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10. Final project presentations - finals week

Fabián E. Bustamante

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