CS268: Computer Networks Syllabus

Textbooks

There are no official texts for the course. As background, we suggest several texts:

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie. Covers background networking material that students should already be familiar with.
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Covers similar material to Peterson and Davie.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens.
Unix Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI (Volume 1) by W. Richard Stevens.
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Schedule

This schedule and syllabus is subject to change. Please check for updates.

Date	Topics	Readings	Notes
Mon 01/21	No class -- academic holiday
Part 1: Internetworking
Wed 01/23	Class overview		Lecture slides: LEC1
Mon 01/28	Internetworking: Architectural principles	Design, E2E	Optional reading: Tussles
Wed 01/30	Beyond best effort	Active, RFC1633	Optional reading: FundamentalDesignQ
Mon 02/04	Routing (1): BGP	Notes1, Notes2, Anomalies	Optional reading: FoundationalPbs
Wed 02/06	Routing (2): Alternate approaches	RCP, Consensus	Optional reading: MIRO
Mon 02/11	End-to-End Congestion Control	J88, RATE	Optional reading: GoogleFast, MPTCP, XCP
Wed 02/13	Beyond Unicast	Deering88, CBT	Optional reading: SRM, SprintExperiences
Mon 02/18	No class -- academic holiday
Part 2: Infrastructure and Intra-domain
Wed 02/20	Routers	BufferSizing, Background	Optional reading: RouteBricks, HyperCuts
Mon 02/25	Link scheduling	FQ, NoFair	PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE! Optional reading: CoDel
Wed 02/27	Layer 2 (guest lecture by Radia Perlman)	SPT, Floodless	Optional reading: TRILL
Mon 03/04	Management	4D, Ethane	Optional reading: VLANs
Wed 03/06	Middleboxes	MboxBadness, APLOMB	Optional reading: ETTM
Part 3: Tools and Techniques
Mon 03/11	Measurement (guest lecture by Vern Paxson)	PktDynamics, SoundStrategies	Optional reading: VargheseNewDirs
Wed 03/13	Theory	Bloom, ConsistentHash	Optional reading: ToNC, NetComplex, CountingBloom
Mon 03/18	Network Software	Click, MegaPipe	Optional reading: Arista-EOS, RoleBasedArch, XORP
Wed 03/20	Overlays	ESM, DHTs	Optional reading: RON
Mon 03/25	No class -- spring break
Wed 03/27	No class -- spring break
Part 4: New(er) Networks
Mon 04/01	Project Updates
Wed 04/03	Wireless	XOR, RoofNet	Optional reading: Vehicular
Mon 04/08	Datacenters	Helios, VL2	Optional reading: TDMA
Wed 04/10	Software-Defined Networks (guest lecture by Teemu Koponen)	ONIX, Fabric	Optional reading: Frenetic
Mon 04/15	New directions (1)	NDN, HomeNets, Estrin, Latency	Optional: VanGoogle
Wed 04/17	Evolution (guest lecture by Scott Shenker)	JustWorks, OFlow, XIA, OPAE
Mon 04/22	Sensor Networks, DTN (guest lecture by Kevin Fall)	DirDiff, DTN	Optional reading: SensorArch
Wed 04/24	New directions (2)	Energy
Mon 04/29	Project presentations (1)
Wed 05/01	Project presentations (2)