CS590: Clean-Slate Network Architectures

• James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet. 4th edition
• Peterson and Davie. Computer Networks: A systems approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

• Reviews (20%): Each assigned paper will require a review before the class begins. To give me sufficient time to look through the reviews, I would like the reviews to be submitted by 9:00AM on the day of the class. Please submit all your reviews through email (kompella AT cs. purdue. edu) with the subject title [CS590]. This review is required to ensure you have a thorough understanding of the paper before attending the class, so you can ask meaningful questions and participate in the discussions. Reviews should address the following questions. (You need not submit up to 4 reviews through the entire class.)
  
• Main contribution of the paper should be summarized in about 5-10 lines.
  
• Describe the soundness of the methodology. For example: do the experiments support the conclusions? Are the assumptions practical? Are there other experiments which would have been better? Were there other methodological errors?
• What are the three strongest/most interesting ideas in the paper?
• What are the three biggest weaknesses of the paper?
• What question would you ask the author if seen presented at a conference?
• What open questions or followup work remains, in your opinion, that would be interesting ?

• Presentations (20%): Papers will be lead by individual students; we will determine an assignment of papers at the beginning. Students can prepare their own slides or use the slides of the author, but be prepared to augment the slides with additional insights and questions you would like to pose for the rest of the class.

• Class Participation (10%): Since this course is discussion-oriented, not participating in discussions is not an option. It is important for you to share your view points, questions, opinions, ideas, and thoughts you have with the rest of the class.
  

• Class Project (50%): Students will be encouraged to form teams of 2-3 students and work on a course project in line with the theme of the course. It is the most important aspect of this course. Students are expected to write a project report at the end of the class, which will be in the form of a conference/workshop paper. Some sample project ideas here.