Welcome to the graduate course on Advanced Computer Networks!

The Internet is one of the critical infrastructures today. The course provides a foundational and current view of communication networks in order to enable students to perform high-quality research in the area. Topics will include Internet architecture principles, design of hyperscale cloud networks, data centers, enterprise networks, and more. Material will range from the classics to the latest results, and from analytical foundations to systems design and real-world deployment.

Instructor: Sangeetha Abdu JyothiLinks to an external site.

Class Hours: Mon Wed 2:00 - 3:20 pm PT (ICS 180 and live-streamed on Zoom)

Zoom link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/92100517593?pwd=ekVOVmhFWWgxcjhwR1NxenRScFZrQT09

Office Hours: Thursday 1-2 pm

Prerequisites: NET SYS 201 or COMPSCI 232 or EECS 248A

Schedule: (more optional papers will be added as the quarter progresses)

Date	Lecture	Required Reading	Optional
Mar 28	Lec 1: Introduction
Mar 30	Lec 2: Internet Design Philosophy	Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols [SIGCOMM'88].
Apr 4	Lec 3: End-to-End Principle	End-to-End Arguments in System Design[TOCS'84]
Apr 6	Lec 4: Data Center Network Topologies	A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture [SIGCOMM’08]	VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network [SIGCOMM’09] Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network [SIGCOMM’15]
Apr 11	Lec 5: Congestion Control in Data Centers	DCTCP [SIGCOMM’10]	TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter [SIGCOMM’15] pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport [SIGCOMM’13]
Apr 13	Lec 6: Data Center Network Virtualization	Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant Datacenters [NSDI’14]
Apr 18	Lec 7: Network Function Virtualization	E2: A Framework for NFV Applications [SOSP’15]
Apr 20	Lec 8: Software Defined Networking	OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks [CCR’09]	A Clean Slate 4D Approach to Network Control and Management [CCR’05]
Apr 25	Lec 9: SDN Real-World Use Cases	B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN [SIGCOMM’13]	SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange [SIGCOMM’14]
Apr 27	Lec 10: Programmable Network Hardware	P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors [CCR’14]
May 2	Lec 11: P4 Applications	Elmo: Source Routed Multicast for Public Clouds [SIGCOMM'19]	NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination [NSDI'18]
May 4	Lec 12: Network Verification	VeriFlow: Verifying Network-Wide Invariants in Real Time [NSDI'13]
May 9	Lec 13: Networking for ML	A generic communication scheduler for distributed DNN training acceleration [SOSP'19]
May 11	Lec 14: ML for networking	Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Pensieve [SIGCOMM'17]
May 16	Lec 15: Internet Measurements	Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion [SIGCOMM'18]
May 18	Lec 16: Interdomain Routing	Anatomy of a Large European IXP [SIGCOMM'12]
May 23	Lec 17: LEO Satellite Networks	Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour [CoNeXT'19]
May 25	Lec 18: Network Resilience	Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse [SIGCOMM'21]
May 30	Memorial Day
Jun 1	Lec 19: Wrap Up

Grading

Paper Summaries: 30%

Class participation: 20%

Final Project: 50%

(Title and plan: 5%

Mid-term: 15%

Final presentation: 20%

Final report: 10%)