CPS 214 (Duke University) Networks and Distributed Systems

Internet architecture
CDNs and Akamai
Etc.

Some of the material we cover will be similar to last year's offering, although this year's course will be front-loaded with more content related to scalable services. The old topics/readings list is here.

For Tuesday 4/10 we will have a visit from Romit Roy Choudhury who will discuss key issues in wireless networking. Please read the wireless networking chapter from the textbook.

For Thursday 4/12 we will have a visit from Thomas Narten of IBM, who will talk about exciting happenings in the IETF and the future Internet, including the IPv6 experience. Come prepared with questions for a fun interactive discussion.

For Tuesday 4/3 and 4/5 we will talk about the shape of the Internet. We will discuss Rocketfuel: please read the SIGCOMM 2002 paper.

For Thursday 3/22 and Tuesday 3/27 we will be discussing more about building large-scale services with DHTs, starting with DNS. Reading:

The Design and Implementation of a Next Generation Name Service for the Internet [PDF], by Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM, Portland, Oregon, August 2004.
Handling Churn in a DHT, by Sean Rhea, Dennis Geels, Timothy Roscoe, and John Kubiatowicz. In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2004. For February 27 and March 1, we will begin "our journey into the network core". Please read K&R chapter 4 through 4.6.
For Thursday March 1, please read about: The Click Modular Router. Extract the key ideas from the TOCS paper on the publications page: Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, Benjie Chen, John Jannotti, and M. Frans Kaashoek. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 18(3), August 2000, pages 263-297.
For this class I used a selection of slides graciously provided by Sean Rhea, and reposted here with his permission: slides, handouts.