Selected Topics in Computer Networks

Schedule

Date Lecture Topics Speakers and Notes Reading
Th 3/30 Intro and Project Descriptions Kuzmanovic, Project Leaders

Course Info
Projects
Tu 04/04 Data Center Networking Offense:
Jack Burkhardt

Defense:
Siby Suriyan
PLB: Congestion Signals are Simple and Effective for Network Load Balancing
Th 04/06 Data Center Networking Offense:
Erick Meikoki

Defense:
Arthur Hu
Hashing Linearity Enables Relative Path Control in Data Centers
Tu 04/11 Programmable Dataplane Offense:
Yongrui Hu

Defense:
Kyle Jung
RDMA is Turing complete, we just did not know it yet!
Th 04/13 Programmable Dataplane Offense:
Arthur Hu

Defense:
Asher Zhang
Runtime Programmable Switches
Tu 04/18 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense:
Nikolai Medvedev

Defense:
Lior Thornton
Understanding host network stack overheads
Th 04/20 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense:
Erick Meikoki

Defense:
Arden Shao
Lynx: A SmartNIC-driven Accelerator-centric Architecture for Network Servers
Tu 04/25 MLSys Offense:
Lior Thornton

Defense:
Jack Burkhardt
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation

<- Extended Reading ->
ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning
Th 04/27 MLSys Offense:
Shaoming Xu

Defense:
Kyle Jung
Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems
Tu 05/02 Midterm Presentations -- --
Th 05/04 DNS Offense:
Asher Zhang

Defense:
Jack Burkhardt
The ties that un-bind: decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale
Tu 05/09DNS Offense:
Siby Suriyan

Defense:
Erick Meikoki
Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH): A Practical Privacy Enhancement to DNS
Th 05/11 Anonymous Network Offense:
Arthur Hu

Defense:
Yongrui Hu
Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics
Tu 05/16 Anonymous Network Offense:
Kyle Jung

Defense:
Arden Shao
Spectrum: High-bandwidth Anonymous Broadcast
Th 05/18 Edge Network Offense:
Asher Zhang

Defense:
Nikolai Medvedev
C2DN: How to Harness Erasure Codes at the Edge for Efficient Content Delivery
Tu 05/23 Edge Network Offense:
Shaoming Xu

Defense:
Yongrui Hu
Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets
Th 05/25 Video Offense:
Arden Shao

Defense:
Lior Thornton
NeuroScaler: Neural Video Enhancement at Scale
Tu 05/30 Video Offense:
Nikolai Medvedev

Defense:
Shaoming Xu
Privid: Practical, Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics Queries
Th 06/01 Final Presentations -- --

Note

How to read papers: Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology by Michael J. Hanson, 1990, revised 2000 Dylan McNamee.


March 2023 Aleksandar Kuzmanovic