January 12: Course Overview

Suggested Readings:

• D. Clark, J. Wroclawski, K. Sollins, R. Braden Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow?s Internet   (pdf)  SIGCOMM 2002, 2002.
• D. Clark, Rethinking the Design of the Internet: End-to-End Arguments versus the Brave New World   (pdf)  TPRC 2000, 2000.

January 14: Internet Denial of Service Attacks

• A. Hussain, J. Heidemann, and C. Papadopoulos, A framework for Classifying DoS attacks   Proceedings of  ACM SIGCOMM'03, 2003.

 

January 21: On research

• David Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia  
• R. W. Hamming, A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do   

 

January 26: Internet DoS Attack (II)

• Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Ed Knightly. Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks (The Shrew vs. the Mice and Elephants), ACM SIGCOMM 2003.  

 

January 28: Internet DoS Attack (III)

• Vern Paxon An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed DoS attacks, ACM CCR 2001.  

 

February 4: Inter-domain Routing

• G. Goodell, W. Aiello, T. Griffin, J. Ioannidis , P. McDaniel, and A. Rubin, Working Around BGP: An Incremental Approach to Improving Security and Accuracy of Interdomain Routing. NDSS'03, February 2003.   

• Toni Farley, Patrick Mcdaniel, A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions. Technical Report, December 2003.   
  • W. Aiello, J. Ioannidis, and P. McDaniel, Origin Authentication in Interdomain Routing. ACM CCS'03, October 2003.   
     

  February 11: Overlay Technology: Routing Overlay

  Reading Assignment:
  • David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris. Resilient Overlay Networks. ACM SOSP 1999.   
  
  

  February 18: Peer-to-Peer Network

  Reading Assignment:
  • I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, M. Kaashoek, and H. Balakrishnan. Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2001.   
  
  
  h3> February 23: Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Network Reading Assignment:
  

  February 25: Security Overlay

  Reading Assignment (due on Friday, Feb. 27):
  • Angelos Keromytis, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein SOS: Secure Overlay Services. ACM ACM SIGCOMM 2002.   
  
  

  March 1: QoS Overlay

  Reading Assignment:
  • Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ion Stoica, Hari Balakrishnan, and Randy Katz. OverQoS: An Overlay Based Architecture for Enhancing Internet QoS . NSDI 2004.   
  
  
  Last Updated: 12 January 2004