Selected Topics in Computer Networks

Date Lecture Topics Speakers and Notes Reading
Thu Apr 3 Intro and Project Descriptions Kuzmanovic, Project Leaders Course Info
Projects
Tue Apr 8 Load Balancing Offense: Desmond Adanuty
Defense: Shreeniket Bendre & Javi Cuadra
PLB: Congestion Signals for Network Load Balancing
Thu Apr 10 Load Balancing Offense: Richard Yang & Aissata Diallo
Defense: Sirie He & Santiago Klein
Hashing Linearity for Data Center Path Control
Tue Apr 15 Traffic Engineering Offense: Rahib Taher & Frankie Lucco
Defense: Theo Maurino & Anthony Milas
Contracting Wide-area Network Topologies
Thu Apr 17 Traffic Engineering Offense: Ardasher Nasriddinov
Defense: Elizabeth Park
Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic
Tue Apr 22 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense: Yuxiao Tang
Defense: David Xu & Andrew Yang
Understanding Host Network Stack Overheads
Thu Apr 24 Kernel and SmartNIC Offense: Charlie Yin
Defense: Sachi Parikh & Ehulises Rodriguez
Sirius: Composing Network Function Chains
Tue Apr 29 MLSys Offense: Shreeniket Bendre
Defense: Desmond Adanuty
Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with In-Network Aggregation
Thu May 1 MLSys Offense: Anthony Milas
Defense: Aissata Diallo
Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems
Tue May 6 Midterm Presentations -- --
Thu May 8 Security and Privacy Offense: Theo Maurino
Defense: Richard Yang
The Multiple Benefits of a Secure Transport for BGP
Tue May 13 Security and Privacy Offense: Elizabeth Park
Defense: Rahib Taher
Private Web Search with Tiptoe
Thu May 15 Security and Privacy Offense: Sachi Parikh
Defense: Yuxiao Tang
Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions
Tue May 20 Security and Privacy Offense: Sirie He
Defense: Suting Chen
PreAcher: Secure and Practical Password Pre-Authentication by Content Delivery Networks
Thu May 22 Edge Network Offense: Ehulises Rodriguez
Defense: Ardasher Nasriddinov
Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
Tue May 27 Edge Network Offense: Andrew Yang
Defense: Santiago Klein
PAINTER: Traffic Engineering for Enterprise Networks
Thu May 29 Video Offense: David Xu
Defense: Charlie Yin
SODA: Adaptive Bitrate Controller for Video Streaming
Tue Jun 3 Video Offense: Javi Cuadra
Defense: Suting Chen
KEPC-Push: A Knowledge-Enhanced Proactive Content Push Strategy for Edge-Assisted Video Feed Streaming
Thu Jun 5 Final Presentations -- --

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