Selected Topics in Computer Networks

Schedule

Date Lecture Topics Speakers and Notes Reading
Th 3/28 Intro and Project Descriptions Kuzmanovic, Project Leaders

Course Info
Projects
Tu 04/02 Load Balancing Offense:
Andre Chen

Defense:
Jinwei Zhang
PLB: Congestion Signals are Simple and Effective for Network Load Balancing
Th 04/04 Load Balancing Offense:
Jing Gu

Defense:
Kevin Hayes
Hashing Linearity Enables Relative Path Control in Data Centers
Tu 04/09 Traffic Engineering Offense:
Jinan Hong

Defense:
Tim Huynh
Contracting Wide-area Network Topologies to Solve Flow Problems Quickly
Th 04/11 Traffic Engineering Offense:
Neel Keswani

Defense:
Alison Levin
Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
Tu 04/16 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense:
Nana Akyea

Defense:
Jinwei Zhang
Understanding host network stack overheads
Th 04/18 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense:
Kevin Chen

Defense:
Ryan Wong
Lynx: A SmartNIC-driven Accelerator-centric Architecture for Network Servers
Tu 04/23 MLSys Offense:
Tim Huynh

Defense:
Kevin Hayes
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation

<- Extended Reading ->
ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning
Th 04/25 MLSys Offense:
Alison Levin

Defense:
Andre Chen
Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems
Tu 04/30 Midterm Presentations -- --
Th 05/02 Internet Privacy Offense:
Kevin Chen

Defense:
Jing Gu
Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH): A Practical Privacy Enhancement to DNS
Tu 05/07 Internet Privacy Offense:
Ryan Wong

Defense:
Jinan Hong
Private Web Search with Tiptoe
Th 05/09 Anonymous Network Offense:
Jinwei Zhang

Defense:
Neel Keswani
Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics
Tu 05/14 Anonymous Network Offense:
Alison Levin

Defense:
Nana Akyea
Spectrum: High-bandwidth Anonymous Broadcast
Th 05/16 Edge Network Offense:
Kevin Hayes

Defense:
Kevin Chen
Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets
Tu 05/21 Edge Network Offense:
Tim Huynh

Defense:
Neel Keswani
PAINTER: Ingress Traffic Engineering and Routing for Enterprise Cloud Networks
Th 05/23 Video Offense:
Jinan Hong

Defense:
Ryan Wong
Dragonfly: Higher Perceptual Quality For Continuous 360° Video Playback
Tu 05/28 Video Offense:
Andre Chen

Defense:
Jing Gu
CausalSim: A Causal Framework for Unbiased Trace-Driven Simulation
Th 05/30 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 2024 Aleksandar Kuzmanovic