CS219 - Winter 2004
Hot Topics on Internet Research

This graduate course covers three hot topics on current Internet research: Resiliency and Security, Overlay Networks, and Internet Measurements. It will help graduate students in the networking area understand the design challenges, current approaches and possible future directions on these topics. The course materials are drawn from current research papers, which are posted on the web. The content is a balance between new design approaches, theoretic techniques, and measurement tools. It aims at introducing graduate students to research, and exploit potential areas for MS comprehensive projects or PhD research directions.

Topical Outline
  • Network Resiliency and Security

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  • Network Overlays and Enabled New Services 

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  • Internet Measurement

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    Grading:
    Take-home exam = 20%
    Reading assignments = 30%
    In-class presentation = 10%
    Project: 40% (5% proposal; 10% progress meeting; 10% presentation and demo; 15% final report)