EE E6762 Broadband Networks

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[Course Info]

[General Reference Material] [1/17 Week 1] [1/24 Week 2] [1/31 Week 3] [2/7 Week 4] [2/14 Week 5] [2/21 Week 6] [2/28 Week 7]
[3/7 Week 8] [3/14 Week 9] [3/21 Week 10] [3/28 Week 11] [4/4 Week 12] [4/11 Week 13] [4/18 Week 14] [4/25 Week 15]

You are expected to read and understand the material. Since there are no written assignments, you are also expected to read more recent material on your own. Doing so will enable you to complete the project.
General   General reference material

Week 1: 1/15   Topic: Organizational / Intro

Presenter: Dan Rubenstein

  • Reading for class
    • S. Shenker,
      Fundamental Design Issues for the Future Internet.
      IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 13, No. 7, September 1995. (pdf)

    • Internet Bottlenecks: the case for Edge Delivery Services.
      Akamai White Paper. (pdf)

    • Selecting an Internet Content Delivery Service for Streaming Media.
      Akamai White Paper. (pdf)

    • P. Christy, The Network Providers Business Case for Internet Content Delivery.
      Akamai White Paper. (pdf)

    • The Inktomi Overlay Solution for Streaming Media Broadcasts.
      Inktomi White Paper. (pdf)
    • Week 2: 1/24   Topic: Traffic Characterization

    Presenter: Dan Rubenstein

  • Reading for class
    • W. Leland, M. Taqqqu, W. Willinger, and D. Wilson,
      On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic.
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, no. 1, February 1994. (pdf)

    • V. Paxson and S. Floyd.
      Wide-Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling.
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, no. 3, June 1995. (PS)

    • M. Grossglauser and J. Bolot,
      On the Relevance of Long-Range Dependence in Network Traffic.
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 7, no. 5, October 1999. (ps)
  • optional
    • B. Ryu, A. Elwalid,
      The Importance of Long-range Dependence of VBR Video Traffic in ATM Traffic Engineering: Myths and realities.
      ACM Computer Communication Review, no. 26, Oct. 1996 (ps)

    • M. Crovella and A. Bestavros,
      Self-Similarty in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes.
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, no. 6, December 1997. (ps)
    • Week 3: 1/31   Topic: Inter-domain Routing

    Presenters: Rahul Bhan and Shahmil Merchant

    • Reading for class
      • L. Gao,
        On Inferring Autonomous System Relationships in the Internet.
        Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, November 2000. (ps)

      • C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, A. Bose and F. Jahanian,
        Delayed Internet Routing Convergence.
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000. (ps)

      • C. Labovitz, R. Wattenhofer, S. Venkatachary and Abha Ahuja,
        The Impact of Internet Policy and Topology on Delayed Internet Routing Convergence.
        Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, AK, April, 2001 (ps)

      • A. Shaikh, L. Kalampoukas, R. Dube, and A. Varma,
        Routing Stability in Congested Networks: Experimentation and Analysis..
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000. (ps)
    Week 4: 2/7   Topic: Fair Queueing

    Presenters: Ching-Kai Hsu, Pongpan Nakkew, and Panagiotis Sebos

    • Reading for class
      • A. Demers, S. Keshav and S. Shenker,
        Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm.
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Austin, Texas, September 1989. (pdf)

      • A. Parekh and R. Gallager,
        A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Single-Node Case. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 3, June 1993.
        (pdf)

      • P. Goyal, H. Vin, and H. Cheng,
        Start-Time Fair Queueing: A Scheduling Algorithm for Integrated Services Packet Switched Networks.
        IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, no. 5, October 1997. (pdf)


    • optional
      • A. Parekh and R. Gallager,
        A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Multiple-Node Case. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1994.
        (pdf)
    Week 5: 2/14   Topic: Traffic Modelling

    Presenters: Efren Leyva, Vasillis Stachtos, Boonsit (Teddy) Yimwadsana

    • Reading for class
      • P. Wang, Y. Yemini, D. Florissi, J. Zinsky, and P. Florrisi,
        Experimental QoS Peformances of Multimedia Applications . Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
        (pdf)

      • M. Clark and K. Jeffay,
        Application-Level Measurements of Performance on the vBNS Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Systems (ICMCS), Florence, Italy, June 1999.
        (pdf)

      • A. Mena and J. Heidemann,
        An Empirical Study of Real Audio Traffic Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
        (ps)

      • A. Felman, A. Greenberg, C. Lund, N. Reingold, J. Rexford, and F. True
        Deriving Traffic Demands for Operational IP Networks: Methodology and Experiments..
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000. (ps)


    • optional
      • F. Smith, F. Campos, K. Jeffay, D. Ott,
        What TCP/IP Protocol Headers Can Tell Us About the Web . Technical Report.
        (pdf)
    Week 6: 2/21   Topic: Network Layer

    Presenters: Wayzen Lin, Chieh-Yih Wan, and Phu Huynh

    • Reading for class
      • C. Partridge, P. Carvey, E. Burgess, I. Castineyra, T. Clarke, L. Graham, M. Hathaway, P. Herman, A. King, S. Kohalmi, T. Ma, J. McAllen, T. Mendez, W. Milliken, R. Pettyjohn, J. Rokosz, J. Seeger, M. Sollins, S. Storch, B. Tober, D. Troxel, D. Waitzman, and S. Winterble,
        A 50-Gb/s IP Router. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 3, June 1998.
        (pdf)

      • C. Diot, B. Levine, B. Lyles, H. Kassan, and D. Balsiefien,
        Deployment Issues for the IP Multicast Service and Architecture.
        IEEE Network, special issue on Multicasting. January/February 2000. (ps)

      • D. Katabi and J. Wroclawski,
        A Framework for Scalable Global IP-Anycast (GIA)..
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000. (ps) (pdf)

      • E. Zegura, M. Ammar, Z. Fei, and S. Bhattacharjee,
        Application-Layer Anycasting: A Server Selection Architecture and Use in a Replicated Web Service.
        IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, no. 4, August 2000. (pdf)
    Week 7: 2/28   Topic: Multicast Overlays

    Presenters: Lian Duan, Bung-Jun Ko, Apostolos Manolitzas

    • Reading for class
      • Y. Chu, S. Rao, and H. Zhang,
        A Case for End System Multicast Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000.
        (ps)

      • I. Stoica, T. Ng, and H. Zhang,
        REUNITE: A Recursive Unicast Approach to Multicast Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
        (pdf)

      • Y. Chawathe, S. McCanne, and E. Brewer,
        An Architecture for Internet Content Distribution as an Infrastructure Service Technical Report, UC Berkeley.
        (pdf)

      • J. Jannotti, D. Gifford, K. Johnson, M.F. Kaashoek, J.W. O'Toole,
        Overcast: Reliable Multicasting with an Overlay Network.
        Proceedings of USENIX OSDI, San Diego, CA, October 2000. (pdf)
    Week 8: 3/7   Topic: Scalable Broadcast Streaming

    Presenters: Suhail Mohiuddin, Marc Siriratsivawong, and Mahdi Sajjadpour

    • Reading for class
      • K. Hua and S. Sheu,
        Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems.
        Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Cannes, France, September 1997. (pdf)

      • K. Hua, Y. Cai, and S. Sheu,
        Patching: A Multicast Technique for True Video-on-Demand Services.
        Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Orlando, FL, October 1999. (pdf)

      • L. Gao, J. Kurose, and D. Towsley,
        Efficient Schemes for Broadcasting Popular Videos.
        Proceedings of IEEE NOSSDAV'98, Cambridge, UK, July 1998. (ps)

      • M. Bradshaw, B. Wang, S. Sen, L. Gao, J. Kurose, P. Shenoy and D. Towsley,
        Periodic Broadcast and Patching Services - Implementation, Measurement, and Analysis in an Internet Streaming Video Testbed.
        Technical Report, University of Massachusetts. (ps)

      • optional
        • D. Eager and M. Vernon,
          Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand . Proceedings of MMCN, San Jose, CA, January 1999.
          (ps)
    Week 9: 3/14   Topic: Vacation

    • SPRING BREAK!!!
    Week 10: 3/21   Topic: Server Selection

    Presenters: Ophelia Yin, Sanhyo Kim, & Marc Siriratsivawong

    • Reading for class
      • A. Shaikh, R. Tewari, and M. Agrawal,
        On the Effectiveness of DNS-based Server Selection.
        IBM Researh Report, June 2000. (ps) (pdf)

      • S. Dykes, K. Robbins, and C. Jeffery,
        An Empirical Evaluation of Client-side Server Selection Algorithms . Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
        (pdf)

      • L Qiu, V. Padmanabhan, and G. Voelker,
        On the Placement of Web Server Replicas.
        Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, AK, April, 2001 (pdf)

      • Z. Fei, S. Bhattacharjee, E. Zegura, and M. Ammar,
        A Novel Server Selection Technique for Improving the Response Time of a Replicated Service.
        Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, San Francisco, CA, March 1998. (pdf)
    Week 11: 3/28   Topic: Server Selection cont'd

    Presenters: Kamal Chebaklo, Chieh-Yih Wan, and Teddy Yimwadsana

    • Reading for class
      • P. Rodriguez, A. Kirpal, and E. Biersack,
        Parallel-Access for Mirror Sites in the Internet . Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
        (ps) (pdf)

      • A. Myers, P. Dinda, and H. Zhang,
        Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet . Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, New York, NY, March 1999.
        (pdf)

      • E. Cohen and H. Kaplan,
        Proactive Caching of DNS Records: Addressing a Performance Bottleneck. Proc. of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), San Diego, CA, January 2001.
        (ps) (pdf)
    Week 12: 4/4   Topic: Caching

    Presenters: Will Jenkins, Kalpen Dedhia, and Ana Radovanovic

    • Reading for class
      • L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida, and A. Broder,
        Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-Area Web Cache Sharing Protocol.
        IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, no. 3, June 2000. (pdf)

      • P. Krishnan, D. Raz, and Y. Shavitt,
        The Cache Location Problem.
        IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, no. 5, October 2000. (pdf)

      • A. Wolman, G. Voelker, N. Sharma, N. Cardwell, A. Karlin, and H. Levy,
        On the Scale and Performance of Cooperative Web Proxy Caching . Proceedings of SOSP'99, Kiawah Island, SC, December 1999.
        (pdf)

      • S. Gadde, J. Chase, M. Rabinovich,
        Web Caching and Content Distribution: A View From the Interior.
        Proceedings of the 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2000. (ps)(pdf)
    Week 13: 4/11   Topic: Wireless

    Presenters: Bong-Jun Ko, Rahul Bhan, and Vasillis Stachtos

    • Reading for class


      • A. Snoeren and H. Balakrishnan
        An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility .
        Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, Boston, MA, August 2000.
        (pdf)

      • G. Cao
        A Scalable Low-Latency Cache Invalidation Strategy for Mobile Environments. Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, Boston, MA, August 2000.
        (pdf)

      • S. Kasera and J. Kuri
        Reliable Multicast in Multi-access Wireless LANs .
        Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, New York, NY, March 1999.
        (ps)(pdf)
    Week 14: 4/17
    1-3:30pm
    MUDD 1127
      (NOTE DATE, TIME and ROOM CHANGE)    		 Topic: Summary

    Presenters: Dan Rubenstein

    • Reading for class: None
    Week 15: 4/25   No Class

    Presenters: None

    • Optional Reading


      • A. Campbell, H. De Meer, M. Kounavis, K. Miki, J. Vicente, and D. Villela
        A Survey of Programmable Networks
        ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Vol. 29, No 2, April 1999.
        (pdf)

      • S. Rooney, J. van der Merwe, S. Crosby and I. Leslie
        The Tempest, a Framework for Safe, Resource Assured, Programmable Networks
        IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.36, No.10, October 1998.
        (pdf)

      • D. Wetherall, J. Guttag, and D. Tennenhouse
        ANTS: A Toolkit for Building and Dynamically Deploying Network Protocols
        Proceedings of IEEE OPENARCH, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.
        (pdf)
    [Course Info] [Syllabus]

    [General Reference Material] [1/17 Week 1] [1/24 Week 2] [1/31 Week 3] [2/7 Week 4] [2/14 Week 5] [2/21 Week 6] [2/28 Week 7]
    [3/7 Week 8] [3/14 Week 9] [3/21 Week 10] [3/28 Week 11] [4/4 Week 12] [4/11 Week 13] [4/18 Week 14] [4/25 Week 15]