General and
Historic Course Information
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Required Text: None
Syllabus
Class List
This course will be conducted in 'seminar style'.
Except for background material, the course consists of readings and discussion of technical papers
taken from the current computer networks literature.
Seminar style implies
that the students participate in both the presentations and in the
discussion. This participation is a significant component of your grade.
Normally, we will cover two papers per week.
Students are required to complete and turn in a
Paper Evaluation Form(pdf) (doc) for each paper
covered at the beginning of every class.
Late forms will not be graded.
The course includes a Course Project, and
a Final Exam. Note the set of Preliminary Questions
for the Fall 2006 Final Exam.
See also sample Preliminary Questions
from the Spring 2003 Final
and the actual Final Exam.
Each student is required to submit hardcopies of two research papers by September 19 to help form the course material.
The table below will hold all the presentations given in this course.
Each student will give two research paper presentations.
| Course Objectives | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 15 August 2006 |
| TCP Sliding Windows | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 5 September 2006 |
| General Congestion Control and Queuing | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 17 August 2006 |
| Hobb's Internet History | |||
| TCP Congestion Control | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 September 2006 |
| Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 5 September 2006 |
| Tuning RED for Web Traffic | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 19 September 2006 |
| Core Stateless Fair Queueing | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 19 September 2006 |
| The War between Mice and Elephants | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 26 September 2006 |
| Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 26 September 2006 |
| Designing DCCP: Congestion Control Without Reliability | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 3 October 2006 |
| A Wireless Network Primer | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 2 October 2006 |
| Interference-Aware Fair Rate Control in Wireless Sensor Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 3 October 2006 |
| ExOr: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 10 October 2006 |
| Idle Sense: An Optimal Access Method for High Throughput and Fairness in Rate Diverse Wireless LANs | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 10 October 2006 |
| Application-Based Collision Avoidance in Wireless Sensor Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 17 October 2006 |
| Exploiting Idle Communication Power to Improve Wireless Network Performance and Energy Efficiency | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 17 October 2006 |
| XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 24 October 206 |
| Performance Enhancement of TFRC in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 30 October 2006 |
| Spray and Wait: An Efficient Routing Scheme for Intermittenly Connected | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 30 October 2006 |
| Defending against Flooding-Based Distributed Denial-of-Service
Attacks: A Tutorial AND Distributed Denial of Service Attacks |
(pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 30 October 2006 |
| Secure Data Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 6 November 2006 |
| DDoS Defense by Offense | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 6 November 2006 |
| Protecting Web Servers from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 27 November 2006 |
| Web Tap: Detecting Covert Web Traffic | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 December 2006 |
| Sustaining Availability of Web Services under Distributed Denial of Service Attacks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 28 November 2006 |
| TinySec: A Link Layer Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 28 November 2006 |
| Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 December 2006 |
| Detecting Critical Nodes for MANET Intrusion Detection Systems | (pdf) | (ppt) | Updated: 4 December 2006 |
Last Modified 4 Decmeber 2006
Bob Kinicki
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