Here is the tentative schedule for lectures and assignment deadlines. All information is subject to change, and please check this page periodically for the updated schedule. You can view the video capture at this link or Sakai.

Date	Title	Assigned Readings	References
08/19 Wed	L01: Introduction		How to read
08/21 Fri	L02: Network Architecture	End2End, Questions	History, Philosophy, Original TCP/IP, Distributed, Stupid Network
Resource Sharing
08/26 Wed	L03: End-to-end Congestion Control	Congestion, Questions	AIMD Cubic Out: Lab 1
08/28 Fri	L04: Network-assisted Congestion Control	RED (Read Section I-IV and skim through the rest) Questions	Sizing, PIE
09/02 Wed	L05: Explicit Congestion Control	XCP (skip Section 4) Questions	VCP, BBR Analysis, TCP variants
09/04 Fri	L06: Quality of Service	Fundamentals (Read Introduction. No pre-lecture questions)	IntServ, WFQ, GPS Out: Project suggestions
09/09 Wed	L07: Non-cooperative End Hosts	TVA (Read Introduction and Related Work. No pre-lecture questions)	Infer
Routing and the Control Plane
09/11 Fri	L08: Internet Routing	Instability (No reading and no questions)	BGP, Inference Due: Lab 1 Out: Lab 2
09/16 Wed	L09: Routing Attacks and Counter Measures	Routing Security Question
09/18 Fri	L10: Other BGP problems and fixes	Convergence Question
09/23 Wed	L11: Software Defined Networking	Open Flow and P4 Question	B4, B4 after
09/25 Fri	L12: Multicast	Multicast Question	Due: Lab2
Data Center Networks (DCN)
09/30 Wed	L13: Coming of Age of in the Fifth Epoch of Distributed Computing	No reading	Due: Project Proposal
10/02 Fri	L14: DCN Architecture	Fat Tree Question	VL2, JellyFish, Dcell, Bcube, FB data center
10/07 Wed	L15: DCN Performance I	TCP incast	DCTCP, Timers, NDP, HPCC, Timely Out: HW 1
10/09 Fri	L16: Network Support for RDMA	RDMA Question	DCQCN, Timely, IRN
Peer to Peer Networks (P2P)
10/14 Wed	L17: Distributed Hash Tables	Chord Question	Kademlia, Survey, Pastry Due: HW1 Due
10/16 Fri	L18: P2P Networks	BitTyrant Question	BitTorrent
Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
10/21 Wed	L19: DNS-redirection-based CDNs	Akamai	Algorithm, Deception, DNS, Drafting
10/23 Fri	L20: Anycast CDNs	Anycast-SIGCOMM18	Anycast-IMC15, Verfploeter
Measurement
10/28 Wed	L21: Measuring Topology	Rocketfuel	Sound Measurement
10/30 Fri	L22: Measuring other properties	King	Congestion, Last mile, Packet Dynamics, Routing, Fiber map Out: HW 2
Social Networks
11/04 Wed	L23: Online Social Networks	Characteristics	Small World, SybilRank, SynchroTrap, Misinformation
Network Architecture Evolution
11/06 Fri	L24: Tussle in Cyberspace	Tussle	Just Works, Public Options
Project Presentations
11/11 Wed	L25: Signup I
11/13 Fri	L26: Signup II		Due: HW2
11/19 Thu	Due before 11:59pm: Final Project Hand-ins

Last updated: 09/2020