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.
- Prerequisites: CS118 or equivalent; at least one from CS215/CS217/CS218/CS211 preferred
- Credit: 4 Units
- Time: Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:50pm
- Place: 5272 BH
- Instructor: Professor Songwu Lu, slu@cs.ucla.edu
- Office Hour: 4-5pm, Mondays and Wednesdays; or by email appointments
- Course Web Page: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter04/cs219/
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)