EECS-395/495 - Detailed Schedule

The entire class time will be dedicated to presenting and discussing an interesting paper on Internet systems experimentation.

  1. Wed. Jan 4: Learning a few tools
    1. Introductory notes (Chap. 2-4: Internet Architecture, Analytic Background and Practical Issues in Internet Measurement) from Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications,
      M. Crovella and B. Krishnamurthy.
      J. Wlikey & Sons, 2006.
      Read on your own.
      Slides [.pdf]
  2. Mon. Jan 9: Welcome and introductory topics: The changing Internet and some basic advise
    1. Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Arguments vs. The Brave New World,
      M. Blumenthal and D. Clark.
      ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 1(1):70-109, August 2001.
      Presenter: Fabián
    2. Strategies For Sound Internet Measurements,
      S. Paxon.
      In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2004.
      Presenter: Fabián
  3. Wed. Jan 11: PlanetLab and its limitations
    1. A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet,
      L. Peterson, T. Anderson, D. Culler and T. Roscoe. In Proc. of HotNets, 2002.
      Presenter: John Rula
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Using PlanetLab for Network Research: Myths, Realities and Best Practices, N. Spring, L. Peterson, A. Bavier and V. Pai.
      ACM SIGOPS OSR, 40(1), January 2006.
      Presenter: John Rula
      Slides [.pdf]
  4. Tue. Jan 17: Capturing the larger Internet
    1. Satellitelab: Adding Heterogeneity to Planetary-Scale Network Testbeds,
      A M. Dischinger, A. Haeberlen, I. Beschastnikh, K. Gummadi and S. Saroiu.
      In Proc. of SIGCOMM, 2008.
      Presenter: Mario Sánchez
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. DIMES: Let the Internet Measure Itself,
      Y. Shavitt and E. Shir.
      ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 35(5), October 2005.
      Presenter: Mario Sánchez
      Slides [.pdf]
  5. Wed. Jan 18: Capturing the larger Internet
    1. Facilitating Focused Internet Measurements,
      Z. Wen, S. Triukose and M. Rabinovich.
      In Proc. of SIGMETRICS, 2007.
      Presenter: Ted Stein
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Seattle: A Platform for Educational Cloud Computing,
      J. Cappos, I Beschastnick, A. Krishnamurthy and T. Anderson.
      In Proc. of SIGCSE, 2009.
      Presenter: Ted Stein
      Slides [.pdf]
  6. Mon. Jan 23: Characterizing broadband
    1. Characterizing Residential Broadband Networks,
      M. Dischinger, S. Haeberlen, K. Gummadi and S. Saroiu.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2007.
      Presenter: Andy Gocke
      Slides [.pdf]
  7. Tue. Jan 24: Projects - Initial presentations
  8. Wed. Jan 25: Characterizing broadband
    1. Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway,
      S. Sundaresan, W. de Donato, N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, S. Crawford and A. Pescap.
      In Proc. of SIGCOMM, 2011.
      Presenter: Zach Bischof
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Crowdsourcing ISP Characterization to the Network Edge,
      Z. Bischof, J. Otto, M. Sanchez, J. Rula, D. Choffnes and F. Bustamante.
      In Proc. of SIGCOMM W-MUST, 2011.
      Presenter: Zach Bischof
      Slides [.pdf]
  9. Mon. Jan 30: Characterizing broadband - Bandwidth
    1. Bandwidth Estimation in Broadband Access Networks,
      K. Lakshminarayanan, V. Padmanabhan, and J. Padhye.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2004.
      Presenter: William Ng
      Slides [.pdf]
  10. Wed. Feb. 1: Characterizing broadband - Latency
    1. Network Coordinates in the Wild,
      J. Ledlie, P. Gardner and M. Seltzer.
      In Proc. of USENIX NSDI, 2007.
      Presenter: Mario Sánchez
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Network Positioning From the Edge: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Network Positioning in P2P Systems,
      D. Choffnes, M. Sanchez and F. Bustamante.
      In Proc. of INFOCOM, 2010.
      Presenter: Mario Sánchez
      Slides [.pdf]
  11. Mon. Feb. 6: Midterm presentations and reports
  12. Wed. Feb. 8: Characterizing broadband - Interference
    1. Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation,
      M. Dischinger, M. Marcon, S. Guha, K. Gummadi, R. Mahajan and S. Saroiu.
      In Proc. of NSDI, 2010.
      Presenter: Marcel Flores
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. ShaperProbe: End-to-end Detection of ISP Traffic Shaping Using Active Methods,
      P. Kanuparthy and C. Dovrolis.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2011.
      Presenter: Marcel Flores
      Slides [.pdf]
  13. Mon. Feb. 13
    1. Understanding Block-level Address Usage in the Visible Internet,
      X. Cai and J. Heidemann.
      In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2010.
      Presenter: John Hudson
      Slides [.pdf]
  14. Wed. Feb. 15
    1. On the Constancy of Internet Path Properties,
      Y. Zhang, N. Duffield, V. Paxson and S. Shenker.
      In Proc. of IMW, 2001.
      Presenter: Madhav Suresh
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Opportunistic Measurement: Extracting Insights from Spurious Traffic,
      M. Casado, T. Garfinkel, W. Cui, V. Paxson, and S. Savage.
      In Proc. of HotNets, 2005.
      Presenter: Madhav Suresh
      Slides [.pdf]
  15. Mon. Feb. 20
    1. Moving Beyond End-to-end Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance,
      R. Krishnan, H. Madhyastha, S. Srinivasan, S. Jain, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Anderson and J. Gao.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2009.
      Presenter: Christopher Moran
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Comparing DNS Resolvers in the Wild,
      B. Ager, W, Mühlbauer, G. Smaragdakis and S. Uhlig.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2010.
      Presenter: Christopher Moran
      Slides [.pdf]
  16. Wed. Feb. 22
    1. Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement,
      F. Dobrian, A. Awan, D. Joseph, A. Ganjam, J. Zhan, V. Sekar, I. Stoica and H. Zhang.
      In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2011.
      Presenter: Jason Lee
      Slides [.pdf]
  17. Mon. Feb. 27
    1. On Blind Mice and The Elephant - Understanding the Network Impact of a Large Distributed System,
      J. Otto, M. Sanchez, D. Choffnes, F. Bustamante and G. Siganos.
      In Proc. of SIGCOMM, 2011.
      Presenter: Madhav Suresh
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. A Content Propagation Metric for Efficient Content Distribution,
      R. Peterson, B. Wong and E. Sirer.
      In Proc. of SIGCOMM, 2011.
      Presenter: Madhav Suresh
      Slides [.pdf]
  18. Wed. Feb. 29
    1. Understanding Online Social Network Usage from a Network Perspective,
      F. Schneider, A. Feldmann, B. Krishnamurthy and W. Willinger.
      In Proc. of IMC, 2009.
      Presenter: Aaron Steinfeld
      Slides [.pdf]
  19. Mon. Mar. 5
    1. Zookeper: Wait-free Coordination for Internet-scale Systems,
      P. Hunt, M. Konar, F. Junqueira, and B. Reed,
      In Proc. of USENIX ATC, 2010.
      Presenter: Geoffrey Hill
      Slides [.pdf]
    2. Scalable Consistency in Scatter,
      L. Glendenning, I. Beschastnikh, A. Krishnamurthy and T. Anderson.
      In Proc. of SOSP, 2011.
      Presenter: Geoffrey Hill
      Slides [.pdf]
  20. Wed. Mar. 7
    1. Comet: An Active Distributed Key-Value Store,
      R. Geambasu, A. Levy, T. Kohno, A. Krishnamurthy and H. Levy.
      In Proc. of OSDI, 2010.
      Presenter: Sergey Krilov
      Slides [.pdf]

  • Final project presentations - finals week

    • Fabián E. Bustamante
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