EEC 274, Winter 2009: Lecture Schedule

Subject to Change

Week

Date

Topic

Reading/References

Assignments/Comments

1

Jan 6

Course overview and logistics [pdf]

Introduction to Internet measurements [pdf]

How to review a paper
[notes, AJS]

[Crovella] Chapter 1 & 4

 

 

Jan 8

 

Traffic measurements & modeling [pdf]

 

[01IPMON]

[97TMW] [02BCU]

HW#1 assigned

2

Jan 13

Traffic modeling: Self-similarity and long-range dependence (LRD) [pdf]

Explanation of LRD in Internet traffic [pdf]

 

[94LTW] [95PF]

[97CB] [00VB]

 

 

 

Jan 15

Impact of self-similar traffic
 - Case study: Single-hop delay from operational backbone [pdf]

Flow monitoring & traffic sampling [pdf]

Suggested project topics

[03PMF]

 

3

Jan 20

 

Traffic matrix estimation [pdf]

 

[02MTS], [04GJT]

[04NC+]

HW#1 due

 

Jan 22

Traffic profiling and anomaly detection [pdf]

Flexible/programmable traffic measurements

Discussion leader: Faisal Khan [pdf]

[02BKP], [06MC+],

[06MA+], [08RSF]

 

 

4

Jan 27

Internet routing dynamics:  Intra-domain

-          IGP failures and convergence behavior [pdf]

[02ICB], [04AIB] 

 

Proposal due

HW#2 assigned

 

Jan 29

Internet routing dynamics: Inter-domain [pdf]

-          BGP instabilities

-          Policy Routing

-          BGP Beacon

Discussion leader: (Juleo) Yuanbo Zhu [pdf]

[97LMJ], [04ACB]

[01TGS], [03MB+]

 

5

Feb 3

AS hierarchy [pdf]

Internet topology measurements [pdf]

Discussion leader: Gongjing Cao [pdf]

[02SAR], [02SHW]

[03SF+], [06AC+]

 

 

Feb 5

Measuring Network Performance [pdf]

-          Passive vs. active measurements

-          Network tomography & multicast-based inference

[99CDH+], [02BDP+]

 

6

Feb 10

Midterm

 

 

 

Feb 12

Bandwidth estimation [pdf]

Discussion leader: Ferhat Dikbiyik [pdf]

[01LB] [02JD]

[03PD+]

 

7.

Feb 17

Sampling Issues with Active Measurements [pdf]

Guest speaker: Dr. Sridhar Machiraju, Sprint

[06BM+] [07BM+]

HW#2 due

 

Feb 19

Applications: Web [pdf]

Applications: Online-gaming [pdf]

Discussion leader: Brian Estrada

[00KW], [01KWZ]

[03FF]

 

8

Feb 24

Applications: P2P [pdf]

Online social networks [pdf]

Discussion leader: Atif Nazir

[Crovella: Chapter 7.4]

[05GC+], [08NRC]

 

 

Feb 26

Security: DoS/DDoS and Collaborated Defense [pdf]

Botnet Detection [pdf]

Discussion leader: Guanyao Huang

[05KKK], [07KRH]

 

9

Mar 3

Measurement Study of Cellular Wireless Networks

Guest speaker: Dr. Ashwin Sridharan, Sprint

[01CG+]

[07MS+], [08LS+]

 

 

Mar 5

WLAN and wireless mesh networks [pdf]

Discussion leader: (Leo) Xin Liu

[03BC], [04SB]

[08AC+], [08BR+]

 

10

Mar 10

Vehicular ad hoc networks [pdf]

Discussion leader: (Fred) Bojin Liu

[04OK], [05OK],

[06ZC]

 

 

Mar 12

Final Project presentation

 

Project report due 3/16