Advanced Topics in Networking

Description

Instructor	Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. davison(at)cse.lehigh.edu http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/
Introduction:	This course will focus on reading and presenting networking-related papers, with a semester-long project. There will be no exams, but paper and presentation summaries will be required, and course participation will be evaluated. We will explore three topics simultaneously through the semester: peer-to-peer networks, content networking, and classic networking papers.
Objectives:	To become proficient at reading technical papers; to gain knowledge of important current networking research; to learn to write critical reviews of research papers; to explore a research project in some depth and write a technical paper summarizing that work.
Prerequisites:	CSE342 Fundamentals of Internetworking or ECE404 Computer Networks or equivalent.
Examinations:	None
Textbook(s):	None. We will instead read and discuss significant and recent papers.

Tuesday and Thursday 1:10-2:25pm PL258

Readings Schedule

Grading

Expected grading is: paper critiques 20%; class participation 20%; in-class paper presentations 20%; semester project 40%.

Announcements

• 4/24 - Deadline for final paper for your semester projects has been postponed to Monday, April 28.
• 4/03 - Final papers for your semester projects are due Thursday, April 24. Optional draft deadline is Tuesday April 15.
• 2/20 - Some of you have yet to meet with me about your projects. Please do so ASAP.
• 2/4 - A two page (minimum) project proposal is due Tue Feb 11. It should include an introduction and background (why the project will be useful), a project outline, expected results, and current status (what has been done so far). As always, this is technical writing -- write it as if it were a paper to be published. Please hand in hard-copy in class.
• 1/28 - Possible project ideas are now online. (Note that this page is only accessible from Lehigh.)

• The Web100 Project provides the software and tools necessary to automatically and transparently achieve high bandwidth data rates between end hosts.