CSCI 599 Special Topics: Internet Measurement

Schedule

The outline will be updated over time. Please check the assigned readings at the end of the week before they are due. Response prompts will be posted on Piazza by the Saturday before they are due. Please post your responses on Piazza by 7pm Tuesday. Draft syllabus with preliminary paper assignments.

Please see the Week 1 slides for details on what I expect in responses and presentations.
Lecture Date Topics (Presenters) Papers Notes/Resources
1 Wed 01/16 Overview
Tussle Reverse Engineering Strategies Using PlanetLab Slides
2 Wed 01/23 Internet Topology (Calvin & Matt)
Internet map Power-Law Sampling Biases Validation
3 Wed 01/30 Missing Links (Yurong & Calvin)
(in)Completeness Missing Links Sidewalk Ends IXPs (optional) Project group formed Routing Policies (read or watch)
4 Wed 02/06 Traceroute / Understanding Routes (Kyriakos & Xiyue)
Understanding Traceroute (no response) Path Inflation Why High? Reverse Traceroute Recommended: MIDAR Paris Traceroute
5 Wed 02/13 Path Changes (Tobias & Chien-Chun)
Delayed convergence Impact on Performance Tracking Path Changes 4th Paper on Piazza Project Proposal due
6 Wed 02/20 Backbone Traffic (Kyriakos & Xing)
Inter-domain IXP Sprint
7 Wed 02/27 Outages and Anomalies (Liang & Zi)
Paxson Routing Paxson Packets Tulip Optometry
8 Wed 03/06 P2P (Srikanth & Rui)
Ono Piatek Choffnes Glasnost
9 Wed 03/13 Broadband (Xun & Rui)
Overview Dischinger Netalyzr BISmark
-- Wed 03/20 No class, Spring Break
10 Wed 03/27 Mobile (Yurong & Xing)
Meet with the instructor this week for mid-semester project status update.
11 Wed 04/03 No class, NSDI
12 Wed 04/10 Anomaly Detection (Srikanth & Chien-Chun)
ASTUTE DOS Network-wide Alefiya Hussain will join us to discuss the papers.
13 Wed 04/17 Underground Economy (Tobias & Liang)
Botlab Torpig Network-level Click trajectories Census
14 Wed 04/24 Geolocation (Xun, Matt & Zi)
Background Street-level Millions Matchmaking Drafting
15 Wed 05/01 Final Project Presentations
16 Mon 05/13 Project Report Due
Due 5pm PT
17 Wed 05/15 Review a group's project report.
Conference submission-style review of another group's project report. Due 5pm PT