There are no official texts for the course. Students are expected to read research papers. The following books can be useful in providing relevant background:
The schedule and specific readings are tentative and may change over the course of the semester.
| Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 08/27 | Introduction and course overview |
slides | |
| Thu 08/29 | Reviewing relevant concepts |
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| Part 1: Historical perspective | |||
| Tue 09/03 | Refresher on classical principles |
End to end principle, Design philosophy | |
| Thu 09/05 | Active networking |
Active networking (write-up required), Active networking and E2E (no write-up required) |
Instructions and ideas for course project |
| Part 2: Switching infrastructure | |||
| Tue 09/10 | Software-defined networking (SDN) concepts |
4D | Optional -- Ethane |
| Thu 09/12 | SDN technology |
OpenFlow, NOX | Optional -- Onix Warm-up assignment 1 release |
| Tue 09/17 | SDN in use |
B4 | Optional -- B4 and after, Espresso, SWAN, Jupiter |
| Thu 09/19 | Software switches |
Click OR Routebricks | |
| Fri 09/20 | N/A |
N/A | Warm-up assignment 1 due |
| Tue 09/24 | Programmable dataplane hardware |
RMT | Optional -- NetFPGA |
| Thu 09/26 | Dataplane programming language |
P4 | Optional -- Domino Warm-up assignment 2 release Last date to discuss project proposals |
| Tue 10/01 | P4 applications I |
Marple OR Elmo | Optional -- Silkroad, Hula |
| Thu 10/03 | P4 applications II |
NetCache OR Eris | Optional -- NetChain Warm-up assignment 2 due |
| Tue 10/08 | P4 applications III |
In-network computing?, Thoughts on programmable switches | |
| Thu 10/10 | Flexible packet scheduling |
PIFO, UPS | |
| Tue 10/15 | Extensible Internet architecture |
Trotsky | First progress report on the project due. |
| Part 3: Networking infrastructure at endhosts | |||
| Thu 10/17 | High performance network stack I (kernel optimizations) |
Megapipe | |
| Tue 10/22 | High performance network stack II (software kernel bypass) |
IX | Optional -- mTCP |
| Thu 10/24 | Software NIC |
SoftNIC | Optional -- Carousel |
| Tue 10/29 | RDMA I - usecases |
FaRM | Optional -- Pilaf, Herd |
| Thu 10/31 | RDMA II - deployment hurdles |
IRN | Optional -- eRPC, Microsoft RoCE experience |
| Tue 11/05 | Host SDN I |
OpenVSwitch | Second progress report on the project due. |
| Thu 11/07 | Host SDN II / Programmable NICs I |
VFP OR AccelNet | Warm-up assignment 3 release |
| Tue 11/12 | Programmable NICs II |
FlexNIC | Optional -- Tonic |
| Thu 11/14 | No lecture! |
Warm-up assignment 3 due | |
| Part 4: Network functions | |||
| Tue 11/19 | Network Function Virtualization |
NetBricks | |
| Thu 11/21 | Accelerated NFs |
ClickNP | |
| ~~Thanksgiving break~~ | |||
| Tue 12/03 | More smartNIC usecases (Part 3 cont'd) |
iPipe | |
| Thu 12/05 | Wrapping up |
No readings, only lecture | |
| Fri 12/06 | N/A |
Final project report due | |
| Mon 12/09 | Final project presentation |
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| Tue 12/10 | Final project presentation |
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