CS 536 Reading List

Chapter 1 of the Kurose/Ross text.
The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols by D. D. Clark (originally in SIGCOMM 1988; reprinted in Jan 1995 CCR special issue).

Chapter 2 of the Kurose/Ross text.
An experimental study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP System by S. Guha, N. Daswani, R. Jain. IPTPS 2006.
Exploiting BitTorrent for Fun (But not for Profit) by N. Liogkas, R. Nelson, E. Kohler, L. Zhang. IPTPS 2006.

Optional Readings:
An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol by S. Baset and H. Schulzrinne. Revised version in INFOCOM 2006.
The BitTorrent P2P File Sharing System: Measurements and Analysis by J. Pouwelse, P. Garbacki, D. Epema, H. Sips. IPTPS 2005.
Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent by B. Cohen. P2P Economics.

Chapter 3 of the Kurose/Ross text.
Designing DCCP: Congestion Control without Reliability by E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd. SIGCOMM 2006. Slides from the authors can be found here.

Optional Readings:
Van Jacobson et al, Congestion Avoidance and Control, ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 314-329, 1988.
D. Chiu and R. Jain, Analysis of the increase/decrease algorithms for congestion avoidance in computer networks, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 17(1):1-14, June 1989.

Chapter 4 of the Kurose/Ross text.

Optional Readings:
BGP routing policies in ISP networks by M. Caesar and J. Rexford. IEEE Network Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005.
Detour: A case for informed Internet routing and transport by S. Savage et al. IEEE Micro, January 1999.
RouteViews project | Some tools from Colorado State Network Security Group
An investigation of geographic mapping techniques for Internet hosts by V. Padmanabhan and L. Subramanian. SIGCOMM 2001.

Chapters 5 and 6 (only sections 6.1-6.3) of the Kurose/Ross text.

Optional Readings:
Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) polynomial selection for embedded networks by P. Koopman and T. Chakravarty, In Proceedings of DSN 2004.

Sections 7.7 and 7.8 of the Kurose/Ross text.

Optional Readings:
P. White, RSVP and Integrated Services in the Internet: A Tutorial, IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1997, pp. 100-106.
D. Clark and W. Fang. Explicit Allocation of Best-Effort Packet Delivery Service. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 6(4):362-373, Aug. 1998. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=288401&dl=ACM&coll=portal.
Henning Schulzrinne and Jonathan Rosenberg, Internet Telephony: Architecture and Protocols-- An IETF Perspective, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol 31, no 3, pp. 237-255, February 1999.