CS 268 (Adv Network)

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How to read a paper

Reading paper

• Sylvia's advice: do not overthink it, just read it from start to end in depth

• Phase 1: Understanding --> Questions to answer

  • What problems are they solving?

    • In 1-2 sentences

  • Replay their motivating arguments

    • Do they make sense

  • Replay how their solution works for a simple example

    • Can you? If not, go back to step 1

• Phase 2: Critiquing

  • Is the problem important? ambitious? hard? having a long-shelf-life?

  • Is the solution effective? Under what conditions does it break?

  • What other approaches are possible?

Reviewing paper

• Review is not a summary

• A typical format of the review

  • What is the problem being addressed?

  • Do you believe that the problem is / was important?

    • Explain your thinking

    • Consider context

  • What is the solution's main insight (nugget)?

  • Do you think the solution is a good one? (strengths and weakness) --> explain

  • Did you enjoy the paper?

Reading list

Intro and course overview

Robert E. Kahn and Vinton Cerf 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Internet Architecture

• Clark

• E2E

• Active Nets

Beyond best-effort / Unicast

• Multicast

• QoS

• Background reading

  • Deering

• Advanced Reading

  • JustWorks

Congestion Control

• VanCC

• XCP Sections 1-3

Datacenter Networking

• Fat-Tree

• Jellyfish

SDN: context

• 4D, OF, video1, video2

• Road

SDN: practice

• B4

• ONIX

BGP

• Labovitz, SIGCOMM’10

• RCP

BGP Security

Programmable Networks

• RMT Sections 1-3

• Netcache

Datacenter Congestion Control

WAN Congestion Control

P2P Networking

• Chord

• deWeb

Net sw

• Click

• mTCP

NFV

• Aplomb

• PIX

Disaggregation

• Net-Req

• MIND

Low latency

• cISP

• Acquila

Verification

• HSA

• Minesweeper