CS219, Winter 2005

CS219 - Winter 2005
Hot Topics on Internet Research

This graduate course covers two hot topics on current Internet research: Resiliency, and Modeling and Analysis. 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 10:00am - 11:50am

Place: 5419 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/winter05/cs219/

Topical Outline

Network Resiliency

        Denial of Service Attack
        Internet Worms
        Network Misconfigurations
        Secure Internet Routing
        Resilient DNS
        Robust Transport
        Resilient Overlay

Modeling and Analysis on Internet Protocols

        Control Theory
         Game Theory
         Complexity
         Signal Processing
         Graph Theory
         Optimizations
         Statistics

Grading:
Take-home midterm exam = 20%
In-class presentation = 20%
Survey = 20%
Project: 40% (5% proposal; 5% progress report; 10% presentation and demo; 20% final report)