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Instructor: Arjan Durresi (durresi@csc.lsu.edu). TA This graduate course focuses on major communication networks including those for Data, telephone, optical, wireless, sensors, etc. The course goal is to understand the big picture of telecommunications and explain the structure and the tendency of the telecommunications industry In addition to the lectures, this course includes a number of readings from research papers. The course will involve a semester-long project. Homework Reading will be assigned for each lecture. Before lecture, every student must submit a one page report of the assigned papers (report should contain a one paragraph summary of the paper, description of three strong points of the paper and three weak points of the paper). The reports are due one hour before the class starts (DUE TIME: 8:00 AM), by email, include 7702 and the homework number in the subject. Homework can be submitted by email to me at durresi@csc.lsu.edu, include 7702 - HW# in the subject. IMPORTANT: Submit your homework in PDF format or txt and include in the file's title: 7702, HW#, Your name. Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology Project Every student must complete a project on one of the topics discussed in the class. In addition to the presentation given in the class every team will meet with me to discuss the accomplished results and asses the contribution of each team member. Every project must have a practical component that will require you to do an implementation and demonstration. Textbook No textbook is required for this course. Class Schedule and Office Hours TTh 9:10-10:30am 220 COATES HALL, Arjan Durresi: Tu 1:30-2:30 and Th 1:30-2:30 Coates Hall 291 Class Roster

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Week Tuesday Thursday August 28 - September 1 Course overview and topics 2 slides per page 6 slides per page A Review of Key Networking Concepts 2 slides per page 6 slides per page September 4 - 8 A Review of Key Networking Concepts 2 slides per page 6 slides per page A Review of Key Networking Concepts 2 slides per page 6 slides per page September 11 - September 15 A Review of Key Networking Concepts 2 slides per page 6 slides per page Looking Over the Fence at Networks: A Neighbor's View of Networking Research Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation/a> Andrew Odlyzko September 18 - 22 R. Bush and D. Meyer, RFC 3439 - Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy Clark, D., Sollins, K., Wroclawski, J., and Faber, T., Addressing Reality: An Architectural Response to Real-World Demands on the Evolving Internet ACM SIGCOMM 2003 FDNA Workshop, Karlsruhe, August 2003 A Review of Key Networking Concepts 2 slides per page 6 slides per page October 9 - 13 Host Mobility Using an Internet Indirection Infrastructure, Shelley Zhuang, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, Randy Katz And Scott Shenker Capacity Overprovisioning for Networks with Resilience Requirements M. Menth, R. Martin, J. Charzinski How the internet killed the phone business The Economist, September 17, 2005 (No report needed) Bubble 2.0 The Economist, September 27, 2005 (No report needed) Routing 2 slides per page 6 slides per page Towards an Evolvable Internet Architecture Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker and Steven McCanne Drafting Behind Akamai (Travelocity-Based Detouring) Ao-Jan Su, David Choffnes, David Choffnes and Fabian E. Bustamante October 16 - 20 Minimizing Churn in Distributed Systems, P. Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica,ACM SIGCOMM 2006 MIRO: Multi-path Interdomain ROuting, Wen Xu and Jen Rexford, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Transport Protocol 2 slides per page 6 slides per page Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction, Kuan-Ta Chen, Chun-Ying Huang, Polly Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei,ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Planet Scale Software Updates, Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Pablo Rodriguez, and Milan Vojnovic, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 October 23 - 27 Congestion Control 2 slides per page 6 slides per page In VINI Veritas: Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation, A. Bavier, N. Feamster, M. Huang, L. Peterson, J. Rexford Designing DCCP: Congestion Control Without Reliability E. Kohler, M. Handley, S. Floyd Wireless Transmissions 2 slides per page 6 slides per page Jigsaw: Solving the Puzzle of Enterprise 802.11 Analysis Y. Cheng, J. Bellardo, P. Benko, A. C. Snoeren, G. M. Voelker, S. Savage Analyzing the MAC-level Behavior of Wireless Networks R. Mahajan, M. Rodrig, D. Wetherall, J. Zahorjan October 30 - November 4 DDoS and IP Traceback 2 slides per page 6 slides per page DDoS Defense by Offense, M. Walfish, M. Vutukuru, H. Balakrishnan, D. Karger, S. Shenker, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Source Selectable Path Diversity via Routing Deflections, X. Yang, D. Wetherall, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Modeling Adoptability of Secure BGP Protocols, H. Chan, D. Dash, A. Perrig, H. Zhang, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Network Monitors and Contracting Systems, P. Laskowski, J. Chuang , ACM SIGCOMM 2006 November 6 - 9 Wireless Local Networks 2 slides per page 6 slides per page Interference-Aware Fair Rate Control in Wireless Sensor, S. Rangwala, R. Gummadi, R. Govindan, K. Psounis COPE: Traffic Engineering in Dynamic Networks H. Wang, H. Xie, L. Qiu, Y. R. Yang, Y. Zhang, A. Greenberg Cellular Networks 2 slides per page 6 slides per page XORs in The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding S. Katti, H. Rahul, W. Hu, D. Katabi, M. Medard, J. Crowcroft Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers A. Ramachandran, N. Feamster November 13 - 17 The Impact and Implications of the Growth in Residential User-to-User Traffic, K. Cho, K. Fukuda, H. Esaki, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 SybilGuard: Defending Against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, H. Yu, M. Kaminsky, P. B. Gibbons, A. Flaxman, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 November 20 - 24 Writing Research Papers Research Presentations Thanksgiving Holiday December 4 - 8 Measurement-Based Models of Delivery and Interference, C. Reis, R. Mahajan, M. Rodrig, D. Wetherall, J. Zahorjan, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 ROFL: Routing on Flat Labels, M. Caesar, T. Condie, J. Kannan, K. Lakshminarayanan, I. Stoica, S. Shenker, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 A Measurement Study on the Impact of Routing Events on End-to-End Internet Path Performance, F. Wang, Z. M. Mao, J. Wang, L. Gao, R. Bush, ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Building an AS-Topology Model, W. Muhlbauer, A. Feldmann, O. Maennel, M. Roughan, S. Uhlig, ACM SIGCOMM 2006

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Arjan Durresi, Writing Research Papers Arjan Durresi, Research Presentations IEC Tutorial, Fundamentals of Telecommunications Kevin G. Hayes Effective Research Presentations Mark D. Hill Oral Presentation Advice

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