As this is a rather ambitious schedule, we might skip a few of these papers if necessary.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8/23/99 | S. Fahmy | Syllabus and Useful Web Sites and Resources; |
| 8/25/99 | S. Fahmy | C. Partridge.
How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM,
Computer Communication Review, a publication of ACM SIGCOMM, volume 28, number 3, July
1998; Sugih Jamin. Paper reading checklist; A Review of Key Networking Topics (ignore the Homework); Quality of Service in Data Networks: Recent Solutions and Issues |
| 8/30/99 | S. Fahmy | Quality of Service in Data Networks: Recent Solutions and Issues (continued) |
| 9/1/99 | S. Fahmy | Overview of Multicast Communication (might not be viewable on all ghostview versions on UNIX, but prints fine. Can be viewed and printed on PCs) |
| 9/6/99 | Labor Day: No class | |
| 9/8/99 | S. Fahmy |
J. Kurose. Open Issues and Challenges in Providing
Quality of Service Guarantees in High-Speed Networks. ACM Computer
Communication Review, pages 6-15, Jan. 1993. ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/Kuro93:Issues.ps.Z
R. Jain. Myths about Congestion Management in High Speed Networks, Internetworking: Research and Experience, Volume 3, 1992, pp. 101-113. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/papers/cong_myt.htm |
| 9/13/99 | Xianfeng Zeng Presentation Slides in Powerpoint: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |
M. W. Garrett. A Service Architecture for ATM: From Applications to
Scheduling. IEEE Network Magazine, pages 6-14, May/June 1996.Garrett.pdf
T. Chen, S. Liu, V. Samalam. The available bit rate service for data in ATM networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1996. http://207.127.135.8/ci1/private/1996/may/chen.html |
| 9/15/99 | S. Fahmy | V. Jacobson. Congestion Avoidance and Control. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM,
1988. (revised version).ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z Further reading: Matt Mathis and Jamshid Mahdavi. Forward Acknowledgment: Refining TCP Congestion Control. Proc. of SIGCOMM, August 1996. ftp://ftp.psc.edu/pub/networking/papers/Fack.9608.ps |
| 9/20/99 | Manu Pathak | S. Floyd and V. Jacobson. Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance. ACM/IEEE Transactions on
Networking, 1(4):397-413, Aug. 1993.
ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/early.ps.gz Further reading: K. K. Ramakrishnan and S. Floyd. A Proposal to add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP. RFC 2481, January 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2481.txt |
| 9/22/99 | Prashanth Prahalad |
P. White. RSVP and Integrated Services in the Internet: A Tutorial. IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1997, pp. 100-106. White.pdf
Further reading: R. Braden, D. Clark, S. Shenker. Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview, RFC 1633, 1994. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1633.txt |
| 9/27/99 | S. Fahmy | Review; Quiz 1 |
| 9/29/99 | Pranav Dharwadkar Presentation Slides in HTML | Powerpoint |
Quiz solution; Project Plan
S. Jamin, P. B. Danzig, S. J. Shenker, and L. Zhang. A Measurement-based Admission Control Algorithm for Integrated Services Packet Networks (Extended Version). ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 5(1):56-70, Feb. 1997. http://irl.eecs.umich.edu/jamin/papers/mbac/ton96.ps.Z Further reading: J. Boyle et al. The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol, Internet Draft, August 1999. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-cops-07.txt |
| 10/4/99 | Pranav Dharwadkar; S. Fahmy |
Admission control; policy control; scheduling (cont'd) |
| 10/6/99 | Arjun Sreekantiah | S. Blake et al. An Architecture for Differentiated Services.
RFC 2475, December 1998. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2475.txt
Further reading: Y. Bernet et al. A framework for differentiated services. Internet draft, February 1999. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-diffserv-framework-02.txt |
| 10/11/99 | October Break: No class | |
| 10/13/99 | Huan Ren | D.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://diffserv.lcs.mit.edu/Papers/exp-alloc-ddc-wf.ps
Further reading: M. May, J-C Bolot, A. Jean-Marie, C. Diot. Simple performance models of differentiated services schemes for the Internet, Proc of INFOCOM '99, March 1999. http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/mmay/diff-serv/diff-serv.html |
| 10/18/99 | Gautham Pamu |
E. Rosen et al. Multiprotocol Label Switching
Architecture. Internet Draft. August 1999.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-arch-06.txt
Further reading: B. Jamoussi. Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP. Internet Draft, September 1999. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-cr-ldp-03.txt |
| 10/20/99 | Stephanie Miller Presentation Slides in Postscript | Powerpoint |
C. Diot, W. Dabbous, and J. Crowcroft. Multipoint Communication: A Survey
of Protocols, Functions and Mechanisms. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, 15(3):277-290, April 1997.
Further reading: C. Semeria and T. Maufer, Introduction to IP Multicast Routing, http://www.3com.com/nsc/501303.html |
| 10/25/99 | S. Fahmy | Review; J.-C. Bolot, T. Turletti, and I. Wakeman. Scalable Feedback Control for Multicast Video Distribution in the Internet. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pages 58-67, September 1994. ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/bolot/94.Video_feedback.ps.gz |
| 10/27/99 | Samanvitha Rao | Katia Obraczka. Multicast transport protocols: A survey and
taxonomy, IEEE Communications Magazine,
http://www.isi.edu/people/katia/transport-related.ps.gz
Further reading: B. N. Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols, ACM Multimedia Systems, 1998. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/ccrg/publications/brian.mmsj.ps.gz |
| 11/1/99 | Darshant Bhagat |
S. Paul, K.K. Sabnani, J. C.-H. Lin, and S. Bhattacharyya. Reliable
Multicast Transport Protocol (RMTP). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, 15(3):407-421, April 1997.
ftp://gwen.cs.purdue.edu/pub/lin/rmtp.ps.Z
Further reading: S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, C.-G. Liu, S. McCanne, and L. Zhang. A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-Weight Sessions and Application Level Framing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(6):784-803, December 1997. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/srm.ps.Z |
| 11/3/99 | S. Fahmy | Review; Quiz 2 |
| 11/8/99 | Yulianto Ko | Quiz solution; S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. Vetterli. Receiver-driven Layered Multicast. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pages 117-130, August 1996. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/mccanne-sigcomm96.ps.gz Further reading: D. Rubenstein, J. Kurose, D. Towsley. The impact of multicast layering on network fairness, Proc. of SIGCOMM 99, September 1999. http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm99/papers/session1-3.html |
| 11/10/99 | Ashish C. Nagre |
J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. A Framework for Telephony Routing over IP. IETF Draft, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iptel-gwloc-framework-05.txt,
October 1999.
Further reading: 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. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/papers/Schu9902_Internet.ps.gz J-C. Bolot, S. Fosse-Parisis, D. Towsley, Adaptive FEC-Based error control for Internet Telephony, Proc. Infocom '99, New York, NY, March 1999. ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/bolot/99.Audio_fec.ps.gz |
| 11/15/99 | John Kenney, Tellabs Research Center | The Guaranteed Frame Rate (GFR) Service |
| 11/17/99 | S. Fahmy | Review; Quiz 3 |
| 11/22/99 | Pranav Dharwadkar; Huan Ren; Sonia Fahmy |
Project Presentations; Quiz Solution |
| 11/24/99 | Thanksgiving break: No class | |
| 11/29/99 | Samanvitha Rao; Ashish C. Nagre |
Project Presentations |
| 12/1/99 | Xianfeng Zeng; Darshant Bhagat |
Project Presentations |
| 12/6/99 | Arjun Sreekantiah; Gautham Pamu/Prashanth Prahalad |
Project Presentations |
| 12/8/99 | Stephanie Miller; Yulianto Ko |
Project Presentations |
| 12/15/99 | Project Report Due |