Seminar papers
Network and protocol architecture I
Paper to Read: Ratnasamy, S., Shenker, S., McCanne, S., "Towards an Evolvable Internet Architecture
," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005.
Paper to Review: Anderson, T., Shenker, S., Stoica, J., Wetherall, D., "Design Guidelines for Robust Internet Protocols," ACM Computer Communication Reviews, vol. 33, no. 1, 2003.
Network and protocol architecture II
Paper to Read: Scott, J., Hui, P., Crowcroft, J., and Diot, C., "Haggle: a Networking Architecture Designed Around Mobile Users," in Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2006.
Paper to Review: Fall, K., "A Delay-Tolerant Network Architecture for Challenged Internets," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2003.
Overlays and peer-to-peer networks
Paper to Read: Baset, S., and Schulzrinne, H., "An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2006.
Paper to Review: Sripanidkulchai, K., Maggs, B., and Zhang, H., "Efficient Content Location Using Internet-Based Locality in Peer-to-Peer Systems," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2003.
Wireless and mobile networks I
Paper to Read: Biswas, S., and Morris, R., "ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005.
Paper to Review: Heusse, M., Rousseau, F., Berger-Sabbatel, G., and Duda A., "Performance Anomaly of 802.11b," in Proceedings of INFOCOM 2003.
Wireless and mobile networks II
Paper to Read: Baraër, C., Phanse, K., Nykvist, J., and Birsa, L., "ExPLoIT: Exploiting Past Location Information and Transitivity for Positioning in Mobile Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE/ICST COMSWARE 2006.
Paper to Review: Katti, S., Hariharan, R., Hu, W., Katabi, D., Médard, M., and Crowcroft, J., "XORs in The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006.
Network measurements and monitoring I
Paper to Read: Cheng, Y-C., Bellardo, J., Benkö, P., Snoeren, A., Voelker, G., and Savage, S., "Jigsaw: Solving the Puzzle of Enterprise 802.11 Analysis," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006.
Paper to Review: Neglia, G., Reina, G., Zhang, H., Towsley, D., Venkataramani, A., and Danaher J., "Availability in BitTorrent Systems," to appear in Proceedings of Infocom 2007.
Network measurements and monitoring II
Paper to Read: Bychkovsky, V., Hull, B., Miu, A., Balakrishnan, H., and Samuel, M., "A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ WiFi Networks," in Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM 2006.
Paper to Review: Ramachandran, A., and Feamster, N., "Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers," in Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2006.
Transport protocols I
Paper to Read: Bhandarkar, S., Sadry, N. E., Reddy, A. L. N., and Vaidya, N., "TCP-DCR: a novel protocol for tolerating wireless channel errors," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 517-529, vol. 4, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2005.
Paper to Review: Kohler, E., Handley, M., and Floyd, S., "Designing DCCP: Congestion Control Without Reliability," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006.
Transport protocols II
Paper to Read: Balakrishnan, H., Padmanabhan, V. N., and Katz, R., "The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance," in Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM, 1997.
Paper to Review: , "Binary Increase Congestion Control for Fast, Long Distance Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2004.
Routing
Paper to Read: Tangmunarunkit, H., Govindan, R., Shenker, S., and Estrin, D., "The Impact of Routing Policy on Internet Paths," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2001.
Paper to Review: Gao, L., and Rexford, J., "Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination," in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, 2000.
Network security
Paper to Read: Athanasopoulos, E., Anagnostakis, K., and Markatos, E., "Misusing Unstructured P2P Systems to Perform DoS Attacks: The Network That Never Forgets," in Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2006.
Paper to Review: Staniford, S., Paxson, V., and Weaver, N., "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time," in Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2002.
Multicast and Anycast
Paper to Read: Ballani, H., and Francis, P., "Towards a Global IP Anycast Service," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005.
Paper to Review: Ratnasamy, S., Ermolinskiy, A., and Shenker, S., "Revisiting IP Multicast," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006.
Quality of Service (QoS)
Paper to Read: Subramanian. L., Stoica, I., Balakrishnan, H., and Katz, R., "OverQoS: Offering Internet QoS Using Overlays," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, January 2003.
Paper to Review: Crowcroft, J., Hand, S., Mortier. R., Roscoe, T., and Warfield, A., "QoS's Downfall: At the bottom, or not at all!," ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Revisiting IP QoS, 2003.
Network testbeds
Papers to Read:
- Raychaudhuri, D., Seskar, I., Ott, M., Ganu, S., Ramachandran, K., Hremo, H., Siraccusa, R., Liu, H., and Singh, M., "Overview of the ORBIT Radio Grid Testbed for Evaluation of Next-Generation Wireless Networks Protocols," in Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2005.
- Ott, M., Seskar, I., Siraccusa, R., and Singh, M., "ORBIT Testbed Software Architecture: Supporting Experiments as a Service," in Proceedings of IEEE Tridentcom 2005.
Paper to Review: Johnson, D., Stack, T., Fish, R., Flickinger, D. M., Stroller, L., Ricci, R., and Lepreau, J., " Mobile Emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network testbed," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2006.
Computer network research: methods and practices
Paper to Read: Kurkowski, S., Camp, T., and Colagrosso, M., "MANET Simulation Studies: The Incredibles," ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, October 2005.
Paper to Review: Floyd, S., and Kohler, E., "Internet Research Needs Better Models," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, January 2003.