Internet Protocol Case Study

• Unicast Congestion Control (Topic for Group of 2 Students)
• Security I: IPSec, Kerberos
• Security II
• Security III: Denial-of-Service, Spam, Phishing
• Routing I: Inter Domain Routing (BGP)
• Routing II: Intra Domain Routing (IS-IS & OSPF)
• Multicast(Topic for Group of 2 Students)
• Beyond best effort (Topic for Group of 2 Students)
• Virtual private networks
• Reliability and Error control (Topic for Group of 2 Students)
• Optical Networking (Topic for Group of 2 Students)
• Internet Pricing
• Naming
• IPv6
• IP-ATM convergence/internetworking
• Web Caching and Internet content distribution
• Big Fast Routers
• Internet Simulation, Measurement and Modeling Issues
• TCP performance
• TCP and WWW modeling
• Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks
• Voice-over-IP and Instant Messaging
• Internet Storage and Storage-Area-Networks
• Disruption-Tolerant Networking
• Web 2.0 Technologies: AJAX, AFLAC, RSS, Blogs etc

The case study is an creative exercise in:

1. synthesizing a picture of an area, its relevance, structure and core ideas; and identifying what problems are worth working on going forward.
2. integrating the concepts learnt in class, with an in-depth focus in a single area.
3. understanding the *research* and *engineering* issues in a focus area and a crisp articulation of state-of-the-art and research/engineering directions being investigated in the community. No fluff. Suggested length ~ about 10 pages.
4. reading key technical research papers, IETF RFCs and drafts, participating in IETF mailing lists etc
5. making a creative attempt at any open research problems to suggest solution directions/approaches. Well articulated solution approaches/breakthroughs can get upto 5 bonus points.

1. The case study proposal should have:
   • List of sub-topics to be covered
   • List of papers, IETF working groups, RFCs you plan to read. This should include a "core set" of papers which should be approved by the instructor. For example, your suggestions should be of similar depth as the papers in the suggested case studies.
   • Upto 2 students can collaborate on a case study project, provided the proposed work is substantial enough (in terms of depth/breadth). Please refer to course syllabus for due dates.
2. The final case study writeup (of about 10 pages) should clearly specify:
   • The scope of the problem you are studying - detail all the fundamental design issues/subproblems involved
   • Solution approaches to each of these issues (in isolation)
   • Solutions adopted in practice
   • Conclusions stating the open issues involved, and possible solution directions.
   • Rrecise definition of problems and original insight into solution directions will lead to bonus points.

1. the depth/breadth of issues investigated
2. clarity of thought and presentation. Problem definition and scope before solution presentation.
3. quality of critique of the state-of-the-art and insight in presenting open issues
4. Well articulated solution approaches/breakthroughs can get upto 5 bonus points. Badly written reports or reports with more "fluff" than clear technical exposition will lose points in the evaluation.

• Internet RFCs
• IETF Internet Drafts (Check out the Internet-Drafts Index link there)
• Cisco Technologies Tutorials Page
• A List of Some Networking Researchers
• IETF Active working groups
• Search for books on Amazon.com
• Search for topics on google.com or go through the yahoo index to see what resources are available on the Internet
• Prof. Raj Jain's Home Page (Interesting Networking Resources)
• Schulzrinne's Internet Technical Resources
• ACIRI (number of key researchers here)
• Partial List of Congestion Control/QoS Papers
• All major IEEE/ACM netoworking journals/proceedings/magazines are electronically available from RPI campus network
  • IEEE communications magazine
  • IEEE network
  • IEEE/ACM transactions on networking
  • IEEE INFOCOM Proceedings
  • ACM SIGCOMM Proceedings
• You can also search for on-line version of papers on these bibliography websites.
  • Network Bibliography: networking related bibilography
  • Computer Science Bibliography : can track down to author's page or get author's publication list
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  • ResearchIndex: most comprehensive scentific paper/citation search

1. End-to-end and Edge-to-Edge Flow Control
   • D. Chiu and R. Jain, "Analysis of the Increase/Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks," Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN, Vol. 17, No. 1, June 1989, pp. 1-14.
   • V. Jacobson, Congestion Avoidance and Control. Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88 (Palo Alto, CA, Aug. 1988)
   • L. Brakmo and L. Peterson. TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol 13, No. 8 (October 1995) pages 1465-1480.
   • Floyd, S., Handley, M., Padhye, J., and Widmer, J., ``Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications,'' Proc. of SIGCOMM '00, 2000.
   • S. Floyd and K. Fall, Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 7(4), August 1999, pp. 458-472.
   • H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, and H. Rahul, An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, Cambridge, MA, September 1999.
   • Jeonghoon Mo and Jean Walrand, "Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking 8, 5 (Oct. 2000), Pages 556 - 567.
   • D. Harrison, S. Kalyanaraman, S. Ramakrishnan, "Overlay Bandwidth Services: Basic Framework and an Edge-to-Edge Closed-Loop Building Block," preprint, February 2001.
   • J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley and J. Kurose, "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation," Proccedings of SIGCOMM'98.
   • K. K.Ramakrishnan, R. Jain, A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer, Proc. SIGCOMM `88, Stanford, CA, August 1988, Vol. 18, No. 4)
   • S. Keshav, Packet-Pair Flow Control, Tech-report, Cornell Univ.
2. Buffer Management
   • Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V. "Random Early Detection gateways for Congestion Avoidance". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.1 N.4, August 1993, p. 397-413.
   • R. Morris, Scalable TCP Congestion Control, IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv.
3. Rate/Credit-Based Schemes
   • Anna Charny, "An Algorithm for Rate Allocation in a Packet Switching Network With Feedback", April 1994.
   • S. Kalyanaraman, R. Jain, S. Fahmy, R. Goyal, and B. Vandalore, "The ERICA Switch Algorithm for ABR Traffic Management in ATM Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 8, 1 (Feb. 2000), Pages 87 - 98
   • Kung, H. T. and R. Morris, Credit-Based Flow Control for ATM Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 2, March/April 1995, pp. 40-48.

Readings/References:

• [RFC 2401]     Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
• [RFC 1510]     The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
• [RFC 2409]     The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
• [RFC 2408]     Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
• [RFC 2406]     IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
• [RFC 2743]     Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2
• [RFC 1928]     SOCKS Protocol Version 5
• IETF Working Group on Security
• IPSec Support Page by Cisc
• Kerberos Support Page by Cisco

Readings/References:

• [RFC 2246]     The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
• [RFC 2818]     HTTP Over TLS
• [IDXP]             The Intrusion Detection Exchange Protocol
• [IAP]               IAP: Intrusion Alert Protocol
• [RFC 2084]     Considerations for Web Transaction Security
• [RFC 2659]     Security Extensions For HTML
• [RFC 2660]     The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol
• [RFC 2289]     A One-Time Password System
• [RFC 2444]     The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism
• SSH Connection Protocol
• SSH Transport Layer Protocol
• SSH Authentication Protocol
• SSH Protocol Architecture
• IETF Working Group on Security

Readings/References:

• Distributed Denial of Service Attacks/Tools (Select 2-3 key readings)
• IRTF Anti-Spam Research Group (Select 2 key readings)
• Network World Magazine Articles (Spam, Phishing etc)
• IP Journal Spam Efforts Article
• Single-Packet IP Traceback

Readings/References:

• [BGP 4]           Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
• [RFC 2519]     A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation
• [RFC 2439]     BGP Route Flap Damping
• [RFC 2796]     BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP
• [RFC 2270]     Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider
• [RFC 2858]     Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• [RFC 3065]     Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• [RFC 1997]     BGP Communities Attribute
• [BGMP]           Border Gateway Multicast Protocol: Protocol Specification
• [GG99]            Timothy G. Griffin and Gordon Wilfong, An Analysis of BGP Convergence Properties,  Sigcomm ‘99
• Paxson, V,  "End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet". ACM SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.
• K. Varadhan, R. Govindan, D. Estrin, "Persistent Route Oscillations in Inter-Domain Routing".
• IETF Working Group on Inter Domain Routing
• BGP Support Page by Cisco

Readings/References:

• [RFC 2328]     OSPF Version 2
• [RFC 1246]     Experience with the OSPF Protocol
• [RFC 2370]     The OSPF Opaque LSA Option
• [RFC 1195]     Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
  
• [RFC 2763]     Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
• [RFC 2966]     Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
• [RFC 2973]     IS-IS Mesh Groups
• J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. ``Loop-Free Routing Using Diffusing Computations''. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1(1):130-141, Fe. 1993.
• IETF Working Group on IS-IS
• IETF Working Group on OSPF
• OSPF Support Page by Cisco

Readings/References:

• Multicast Protocol (e.g PIM-DM, MOSPF, DVMRP,CBT, PIM-SM...)
  • The Evolution of Multicast: From the MBone to Inter-Domain Multicast to Internet2 Deployment by K. Almeroth, IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, January/February 2000
• IP multicast
  • IP multicasting over ATM networks (IEEE paper accessable from RPI library database), Armitage, G.J. Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on , Volume: 15 Issue: 3 , April 1997 Page(s): 445 -457
• Reliable Transport Protocol
  • S. Floyd et al. ``A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing''. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, pages 784-803, Dec. 1997.
  • IETF Criteria for Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols Mankin, A., Romanow, A., Brander, S. and V.Paxson, "", RFC 2357, June 1998.
  • "Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (RMTP)," S. Paul, K. K. Sabnani, J. C. Lin, and S. Bhattacharyya, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 15, No. 3, April 1997.
  • Key Management for Multicast: Issues and Architectures Wallner, D., Hardler, E. and R. Agee, RFC 2627, June 1999
• L. Vicisano, L. Rizzo, J. Crowcroft, "TCP-Like Congestion Control for Layered Multicast Data Transfer", Proc. of IEEE Infocom'98, March 1998.
• J-M. Chang and N. F. Maxemchuk, "Reliable Broadcast Protocols," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 2 (3), Aug. 1984, pp. 251-273.
• S. Deering, "Multicast Routing in Internetworks and Extended LANs", SIGCOMM'88, Stanford, CA, Aug 1988, 55-64.
• T. Ballardie, P. Fracis, and J. Crowcroft, "An Architecture for Scalable Inter-Domain Multicast Routing", SIGCOM'93.
• S. Deering, "Host extensions for IP multicasting", RFC 1112.
  
• M. Yajnik, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, ``Packet Loss Correlation in the MBone Multicast Network'', IEEE Global Internet Conference'96 .
• X. Rex Xu, Andrew C. Myers, Hui Zhang, Raj Yavatkar, Resilient Multicast Support for Continuous-Media Applications. Proceedings of NOSSDAV'97
• L. Wei and D. Estrin. ``The Trade-offs of Multicast Trees and Algorithms''. Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks, 1994.
• S. Ratnasamy and S. McCanne, ``Inference of Multicast Routing Trees and Bottleneck Bandwidths using End-to-end Measurements,'' Proc. of IEEE Infocom'99, Mar. 1999.
• Rizzo, L., ``pgmcc: A TCP-friendly Single-Rate Multicast Congestion Control Scheme,'' Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '00, Aug. 2000.

Readings/References:

• Differentiated Services:
  • Framework for Differentiated Services(Internet Draft)
  • An Architecture for Differentiated Services(Internet Draft)
• IntServ, RSVP:
  • A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv Networks(rfc 2998)
  • Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification(rfc 2205)
  • R Braden, D. Clark & S.Shenker. "Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview", RFC 1633.
• X. Xiao and L. M. Ni, "Internet QoS: A Big Picture", IEEE Network Mag., Mar./Apr. 1999
• L. Breslau and S. Shenker, "Best-Effort versus Reservations: A Simple Comparative Analysis", SIGCOMM'98
• Guerin R. and Peris V., ``Quality-of-Service in Packet Networks: Basic Mechanisms and Directions.'' Computer Networks,Feb '99, pp. 169-179. Available from: Roch Guerin's Page
• Cruz R.L., "A Calculus for Network Delay and a Note onTopologies of Interconnection Networks," Available from: Rene Cruz's Website
• R. Rajan et al. "A Policy Framework for Integrated and Differentiated Services in the Internet", IEEE Network Mag., Sept./Oct. 1999
• S. Jamin, P. B. Danzig, S. J. Shenker, and L. Zhang. ``A Measurement-based Admission Control Algorithm for Integrated Services Packet Networks (Extended Version)''. ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 5(1):56-70, Feb. 1997.
• C. Dovrolis, D. Stiliadis and P. Ramanathan, "Proportional Differentiated Services: Delay Differentiation and Packet Scheduling", SIGCOMM'99
• L. Zhang and S. Deering and D. Estrin and S. Shenker and D. Zappala, "RSVP: A New Resource Reservation Protocol", IEEE Communications Magazine, 31(9):8-18, Sept 1993.
• Parekh A.K., and Gallager R.G., ``A generalized processor sharing approach to flow control in integrated services networks: The multiple node case,'' IEEE/ACM ToN '94.
• C. Dovrolis and P. Ramanathan, "A Case for Relative Differentiated Services and the Proportional Differentiation Model", IEEE Network Mag., Sept./Oct. 1999
• B. Teitelbaum et al., "Internet2 QBone: Building a Testbed for Differentiated Services", IEEE Network Mag., Mar./Apr. 1999
• Guerin R., Ahmadi H., and Naghshineh M., ``Equivalent Bandwidth and Its Application to Bandwidth Allocation in High-Speed Networks,'' IEEE JSAC , Sep '91. Available from: Roch Guerin's Page
• M. May et al., "Simple Performance Models of Differentiated Services Schemes for Internet", INFOCOM'99, pp. 1385-1394
• K. Nichols, V. Jacobson and L. Zhang, "A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet", RFC 2638, July 1999
• K Nichols et al., "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474, December 1998
• S. Shenker et al., "General Characterization Parameters for Integrated Service Network Elements", RFC 2215, September 1997 S .Shenker et al., "Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service",
• J. Wroclawski, "Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service",
• P. Ferguson and G. Huston, Quality of Service: Delivering QoS on the Internet and in Corporate Networks, Wiley Computing Publishing, 1998

Readings/References:

• VLANs
  • VLAN Information: The purpose of this document is to provide a better understanding of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and their use in the Network 21 architecture.
• Virtual Private Networks
  • What Is A Virtual Private Network? by Robert Moskowitz
  • A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks ,B. Gleeson, A. Lin, J. Heinanen, G. Armitage, A. Malis; RFC2764 February 200
  • A Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture K. Muthukrishnan, A. Malis, RFC 2917, September 2000.
  • BGP/MPLS VPNs Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, RFC 2547, March 1999.
• White Papers: VPN, WAN, Remote Access and security related materials from major providers. Complete library of current topics.
• Other Articles
• http://www.ietf.org (search keyword vpn)

Readings/References:

• Error detection and correction (e.g PIM-DM, MOSPF, DVMRP,CBT, PIM-SM...)
  • Berlekamp et al, The application of error control to communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 44-57, April 1987.
  • Tickoo et al, LT-TCP: End-to-End Framework to Improve TCP Performance over Networks with Lossy Channels , IwQos 2005.
  • A. Barg, Handbook of Coding Theory, ed. V. S. Pless and W. C. Hu.man, North-Holland,Amsterdam, 1998.
  • E. R. Berlekamp, Algebraic Coding Theory, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1968.
  • Error-Correcting Code Bibliography prepared by Joseph Malkevitch (CUNY)
  • Reed-Solomon Error Correction, Hugo Lyppens; Dr. Dobbs Journal. 1997, Jan, Article 3 "A fast software implementation in assembly language and C.
  • Convolutional error-control codes , Hugo Lyppens; Dr. Dobbs Journal. 1997, Nov, Article 4
  • Satoru Aikawa, Yasushi Motoyama and Masahiro Umehira; "Error correction and error detection techniques for wireless ATM systems" Wireless Networks 3, 4 (Sep. 1997), Pages 285 - 290
• Forward Error Correction
  • Overview of Forward Error Correction by Bernie Doehner
  • Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer B. Whetten, L. Vicisano, R. Kermode, M. Handley, S. Floyd, M. Luby., RFC 3048, January 2001.
  • Options for Repair of Streaming media Perkins, C. and O. Hodson, "", RFC 2354, June 1998.
  • http://www.digitalfountain.com/technology/techLibrary_papers.htm
  • The Error Correcting Codes (ECC) by Robert Morelos-Zaragoza

Readings/References:

• Opitcal Switching (Topic for Group of 2 Students)
  • Xijun Zhang and Chunming Qiao "An effective and comprehensive approach for traffic grooming and wavelength assignment in SONET/WDM rings" IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(August, 2000) Pages 608-617
  • Ornan Gerstel, Rajiv Ramaswami and Galen H. Sasaki "Cost-effective traffic grooming in WDM rings " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(August, 2000) Pages 618-630
  • Jason P. Jue and Biswanath Mukherjee "Multiconfiguration multihop protocols: a new class of protocols for packet-switched WDM optical networks" IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(August, 2000) Pages 631-642
• WDM Transmisson
  • Ezhan Karasan and Ender Ayanoglu "Effects of wavelength routing and selection algorithms on wavelength conversion gain in WDM optical networks" IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(June, 1998)Pages 186-196
  • Abel Dasylva and R. Srikant "Optimal WDM schedules for optical star networks" IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(July, 1997)Pages 446-456
  • Imrich Chlamtac, Vikt(.ria Elek, Andrea Fumagalli and Csaba Szab) "Scalable WDM access network architecture based on photonic slot routing " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(July, 1999)Pages 1-9
• All-Optical Networks
  • Ahmed Mokhtar and Murat Azizo, "Adaptive wavelength routing in all-optical networks " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (June,1998)Pages 197-206
  • Rajiv Ramaswami and Kumar N. Sivarajan "Routing and wavelength assignment in all-optical networks " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (March, 1995)Pages 489-500
  • Suresh Subramaniam, Murat Azizo and Arun K. Somani "All-optical networks with sparse wavelength conversion" IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking(April, 1996)Pages 544-557
• Optical Networks Control and Management
  • Rajiv Ramaswami and Adrian Segall "Distributed network control for optical networks " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (May, 1997)Pages 936-943
  • Biswanath Mukherjee, Dhritiman Banerjee, S. Ramamurthy and Amarnath Mukherjee "Some principles for designing a wide-area WDM optical network " IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (April, 1996)Pages 684-696
• Optical Networks: A Ray of Light
• Optical Networks: Alcatel
• Benefits of WDM and ATM
• Amplifiers at 1590nm double the DWDM bandwidth
• IETF IP over Networks
• Realizing Packet-Based Multi-Service Networks "Elements for Achieving Predictable Service Levels in IP Networks"
• The Converging Network "Carriers' Challenge: Maximize Bandwidth, Minimize Space"

Optical Networking Books

• Harry J. R. Dutton, "Understanding Optical Communications," Prentice Hall, January 1999, 760 pages.  [Recommended]
• Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan, "Optical Networks : A Practical Perspective," Academic Press/Morgan Kaufmann, February 1998, 650 pages. [Recommended]
• Joseph C. Palais, "Fiber Optic Communications," Prentice-Hall, January 1998, 342 pages.
• Jeff Hecht, "Understanding Fiber Optics," Prentice Hall, November 1998, 544 pages.
• Biswanath Mukherjee, "Optical Communication Networks," McGraw Hill, May 1997, 500 pages.  [Recommended]

Readings/References:

• A. M. Odlyzko, Internet pricing and the history of communications,
• A. M. Odlyzko, The evolution of price discrimination in transportation and its implications for the Internet
• A. M. Odlyzko, Data networks are lightly utilized, and will stay that way
• A. M. Odlyzko, Content is not king
• Ron Cocchi, Scott Shenker, Deborah Estrin, and Lixia Zhang, "Pricing in computer networks: Motivation, formulation, and example," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 1, Dec. 1993.
• H. R. Varian, Estimating the Demand for Bandwidth, August 1999.
• R. J. Gibbens, F. P. Kelly, Resource pricing and the evolution of congestion control, Automatica, 35 (1999), 1969-1985.
• J. K. MacKie-Mason, H. R. Varian, Pricing Congestible Network Resources, IEEE J. Selected Areas Comm. 13 (1995), 1141-1149.
• J. K. MacKie-Mason, H. R. Varian, Pricing the Internet, in B. Kahin and J. Keller, eds., Public Access to the Internet, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
• Ron Cocchi, Deborah Estrin, Scott Shenker, and Lixia Zhang, "A study of priority pricing in multiple service class networks," in SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, Sept. 1992.
• A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B.Whinston, "Pricing of Services on the Internet Services" .

Optional reading

• N. Foukia, D. Billard, P. Reichl, B. Stiller, User Behavior for a Pricing Scheme in a Multi-provider Scenario, The MIT/Tufts Internet Service Quality Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
• L. W. McKnight, J. Boroumand, Pricing Internet Services: What Comes After Flat Rate?, The MIT/Tufts Internet Service Quality Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
• J. Bailey, J. Nagel, S. Raghavan, Ex-Post Internet Pricing, The MIT/Tufts Internet Service Quality Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
• D. Wischik, How to mark fairly, The MIT/Tufts Internet Service Quality Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
• G. Fankhauser, B. Plattner, Diffserv Bandwidth Brokers as Mini-Markets, The MIT/Tufts Internet Service Quality Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, December 1999.
• A. Odlyzko, A modest proposal for preventing Internet congestion, 1997.
• J. K. MacKie-Mason, H. R. Varian, Some Economics of the Internet, Networks, Infrastructure and the New Task for Regulation, W. Sichel, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B.Whinston, "The Economics of Network Management" in Communications of ACM, Sept. 1999.
• Gupta, A., D.O. Stahl & A.B. Whinston, "A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Internet Pricing" in J. of Economic Dynamics and Control, 21:697-72, 1997.
• A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B.Whinston, "An Economic Approach to Network Computing with Priority Classes" in J. of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 6:71-95, 1996.
• A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B.Whinston, "Priority Pricing of Integrated Services Networks" .
• A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B.Whinston, "The Internet: A Future Tragedy of Commons" .
• Richard J. La and Venkat Anantharam, Charge-Sensitive TCP and Rate Control in the Internet, INFOCOM 2000.
• S. Kunniyur and R. Srikant, "End-to-end congestion control: utility functions, random losses and ECN marks", INFOCOM 2000.
• X. Wang, H. Schulzrinne,  "Pricing Network Resources for Adaptive Applications in a Differentiated Services Network", INFOCOM'2001.
• X. Wang, H. Schulzrinne,  "Performance Study of Congestion Price based Adaptive Service", NOSSDAV, 2000.
• Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis and J.N. Tsitsiklis, "Congestion-Dependent Pricing of Network Services", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2000.

Reading:

• [RFC 1034]     Domain names - concepts and facilities
• [RFC 1035]     Domain names - implementation and specification
• [RFC 2874]     DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering
• [RFC 2694]     DNS extensions to Network Address Translators
• [RFC 2535]     Domain Name System Security Extensions 
• [RFC 3022]     Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT) 
• [RFC 2766]     Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT) 
• [RFC 2870]     Root Name Server Operational Requirements
• [RFC 2972]     Context and Goals for Common Name Resolution
• [CNRP]           Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP)
• [INS]               The design and implementation of an intentional naming system
• [MD88]           P. Mockapetris and K. Dunlap, Development of the Domain Name System, Proc. SIGCOMM,1988
• [RFC 2694]     NAT and DNS interaction issues

Reference:

• DNS RFC
• Intentional Naming Systems
• NAT Support Page by Cisco

Reading:

• IP Next Generation Overview, http://info.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/PT1/html/pt1.html.hinden
• "IPv6: The New Internet Protocol", By William Stallings,    http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/surveys/stallings/stallings-orig.html
• "The New and Improved Internet Protocol", By William Stallings,    http://www.byte.com/art/9609/sec5/art2.htm
• "IPv6: The New Version of the Internet Protocol", By Steve Deering,     http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/summaries/deering.html
• IPv6 specifications - Latest RFCs and Internet Drafts Collection,    http://www.sumitomo.com/htmls/randd/ipv6/doc.html
• "IPv6: The Next Generation Internet Protocol", By Gary C. Kessler,    http://www.garykessler.net/library/ipv6_exp.html
• IPv6: Next Generation Internet Protocol, http://www.3com.com/nsc/ipv6.html

Reference

• The IPng Group's home page, http://ganges.cs.tcd.ie/4ba2/ipng/
• IPv6 RFCs & links collection, http://www.aloni.com/IPv6.htm
• IP Next Generation site, http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/ipng-main.html
• The UK IPv6 Resource Centre, http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/
• The 6bone Home Page, http://www.6bone.net/
• Literature Research IPv6 (IPng), by Mike Crawfurd, http://www.mediaport.org/~iamano/lr.zip
• Existing Routing Protocols and IPv6, http://www.cs.nccu.edu.tw/~s8437/IPv6/ip6routing.html
• The IPv6 organization site, http://www.ipv6.org/
• The IPv6 Forum, http://www.ipv6forum.com/

Reading:

• [RFC 1577] Classical IP and ARP over ATM
• [RFC 1483] Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
• [RFC 3031] Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
• [RFC 2072] Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS 
• [RFC 3032] MPLS Label Stack Encoding

Reference:

• Prof Raj Jain’s Page
• The MPLS Resource Center, http://www.mplsrc.com/

Reading:

• [FCAB98]   L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida, A. Broder, Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-Area Cache Sharing Protocol, In Proc. SIGCOMM '98, pp. 254-265, Vancouver, Canada, September 1998.
• [Cla00]  I. Clarke, O. Sandberg, B. Wiley, and T. Hong, Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System, Proc. ICSI Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, Berkeley, CA, July 2000.
• [RFC 3040] Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy
• [IETF Draft] Requirements for Intermediary Discovery and Description
• [Macc]  Yatin Chawathe, Steven McCanne, Eric Brewer, An Architecture for Internet Content Distribution as an Infrastructure Service
• [CDNA]  CDN Peering Architecture Overview
• [CDNP]  Content Distribution Network Peering Scenarios
• [CDNP1] A model for CDNP Peering
• [DP-CDN]  Distribution Peering Requirements for Content Distribution

Reference:

• IETF Working Group on Web Intermediaries (webi)
• IETF Working Group on Web Replication and Caching (wrec)
• Internet Content Distribution

Reading:

• [P+98] C. Partridge et al., A 50 Gb/s IP Router, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 3, June 1998.
• [McK96] N. McKeown, M. Izzard, A. Mekkittikul, W. Ellersick and M. Horowitz, The Tiny Tera: A Packet Switch Core, Proc. Hot Interconnects V, Stanford University, August 1996.
• [LookUp]  M. Waldvogel, G.Varghese,J. Turner, B.Plattner, "Scalable High Speed IP Routing Lookups." Sigcomm'97

Reading:

• [PAX]  V. Paxson, "End-to-end Internet packet dynamics," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, 1997.
• [PAW] Krzysztof Pawlikowski, "Steady-state simulation of queuing processes: a survey of problems and solutions", ACM Computing Surveys, June 1990, pp. 123-170
• [KP91] P. Karn and C. Partridge, Improving Round-Trip Time Estimates in Reliable Transport Protocol. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 364-373, November 1991. (This paper describes a new filtering technique for estimating RTT.)
• [LB99]  Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Measuring Bandwidth." Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '99, (This paper discusses techniques for measuring bandwidth of a connection)
• [AV99] M. Allman and V. Paxson, On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties, SIGCOMM '99, (New paper which talks about filtering RTT, RTO and bandwidth information)
• [Bol93] J.-C. Bolot, End-to-End Packet Delay and Loss Behavior in the Internet, Proc. SIGCOMM, 93.
• [Pax96] V. Paxson, End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 601-615, October 1997 (Earlier version in Proc. SIGCOMM '96, Stanford, CA, August 1996.)
• [LTWW94] W. E. Leland, M. S. Taqqu, W. Willinger, and D. V. Wilson, On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-15, Feb. 1995.
• [IDMaps] An Architecture for a Global Internet Host Distance Estimation Service, Infocom99

Reference:

• Internet Distance Maps
• Vern Paxson’s Page
• Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis Project home page, http://www.merit.edu/ipma/

Reading:

• Shrikrishna Karandikar, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Prasad Bagal, Bob Packer, ``TCP Rate Control,'' Computer Communications Review, Vol 30, No 1, January 2000, pp. 45-58.
• Mathis, M., Mahdavi, J., Floyd, S., and Romanow, A., TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options. RFC 2018, April 1996. Available from: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2018.txt . Latest SACK Page.
• [TCP Vegas] L. Brakmo and L. Peterson. TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol 13, No. 8 (October 1995) pages 1465-1480. Available from: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/protocols/
• L. Zhang, S. Shenker, and D.D. Clark. ``Observations on the Dynamics of a Congestion Control Algorithm: The Effects of Two-Way Traffic''. Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM '91, pages 133-147, Sep. 1991. Downloadable in three parts: [Part 1][Part 2][Part 3].
• [RED] Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V. "Random Early Detection gateways for Congestion Avoidance". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.1 N.4, August 1993, p. 397-413. Available from: ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html
• [FRED] Dong Lin and Robert Morris, "Dynamics of Random Early Detection", in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, 1997.
• [ARED] W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, "Techniques for Eliminating Packet Loss in Congested TCP/IP Networks, "
• [ARED-Sub TCP] W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin," A Self-Configuring RED Gateway," INFOCOM '99, March 1999
• [BLUE] W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, "Blue: A New Class of Active Queue Management Algorithms"

Reference

• http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/research/cong-papers.htm
• RED Homepage
• Robert Morris's Page

Reading

• J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley and J. Kurose, "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation," Proccedings of SIGCOMM'98. Available from: http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~jitu/publications.html . Tech-report is more recent than the paper.
• Cardwell N., Savage S., and Anderson T., ``Modeling TCP Latency,''  INFOCOM '2000. Available from: http://ieeeinfocom.org/2000/papers
• On the relevance of long range dependence in network traffic- M. Grossglauser and J-C. Bolot in ACM SIGCOMM'96 , San Fransisco, CA, Aug 1996.
• New models for self similar traffic - S. Robert and J.-Y. Le Boudec in Performance Evaluation, July 1997, vol. 30, (No 1-2):57-68, Elsevier
• Robert Morris, " TCP Behaviour with Many Flows," IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 1997, Atlanta.

Reference

Reading(Select three)

Gnutella

• Improving Gnutella Protocol: Protocol Analysis and Research Proposals
  Igor Ivkovic, Prize-Winning Paper For LimeWire Gnutella Research Contest, September 2001
• More...a list of technical papers at limewire site

Content Allocation / Routing in Peer-to-Peer Networks

• Routing Algorithms for DHTs: Some Open Questions
  S. Ratnasamy, S. Shender and I. Stocia, IPTPS'02

• Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
  Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Deigo, CA, August 2001, pp. 149-160.

• Pastry: Scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems
  A. Rowstron and P. Druschel. IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware), Heidelberg, Germany, pages 329-350, November, 2001.

• A Scalable Content-Addressable Network
  Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp and Scott Shenker.

• Viceroy: A Scalable and Dynamic Emulation of the Butterfly
  Dahlia Malkhi, Moni Naor, David Ratajczak. Proceedings of the 21st annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing, 2002 , Monterey, California

• Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric
  Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières. In Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02), March 7-8, 2002, MIT.

• Symphony: Distributed Hashing in a Small World
  Gurmeet S Manku, Mayank Bawa and Prebhakar Raghavan, USITS, 2003

• Butterflies and Peer-to-Peer Networks
  Mayur Datar, Proceedings of ESA 2002(LNCS), June 2002.

• Sloppy Hashing and Self-Organizing Clusters
  Michael J. Freedman and David Mazières, IPTPS'03

• Analysis of the Evolution of Peer-to-Peer Systems
  David Liben-Nowell, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger. ACM Conf. on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Monterey, CA, July 2002.

Overlay Networks

• Resilient Overlay Networks (Presentation PDF )
  David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris. Proc. 18th ACM SOSP, Banff, Canada, October 2001.

• Semantic Overlay Networks
  Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford Technical Report, 2002

References

General information, working group and conferences

• Peer-to-peer working group
• OpenP2P.com - p2p development, open source development
• P2P Technology
• International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems IPTPS'03, IPTPS'02
• International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing GP2PC'03
• IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (p2p) p2p2003, p2p2002, p2p2001
• Internation Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing AP2PC

Projects

• Sun's JXTA: JXTA technology is a set of open protocols that allow any connected device on the network ranging fromcell phones and wireless PDAs to PCs and servers to communicate and collaborate in a P2P manner.
• Intel's P2P page
• IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking(APPN)
• Cisco: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN)
• cryptobox: Cryptobos is a security and anonymity layer which can be interfaced with any application which needs to communicate securely.
• Napster: online community of music lovers
• The Freenet Project

• IRIS: Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems - is developing a novel decentralized infrastructure, based on distributed hash tables (DHTs), that will enable a new generation of large-scale distributed applications.
• GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing.
• MIT
  • Chord aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas.
  • Resilient Overlay Networks(RON)
  • Free Haven Project aims to deploy a sytem for distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy any stored data.
• UC Berkeley
  • Tapestry - Infrastructure for Fault-resilient, decentralized location and routing.
  • The OceanStore Project - Providing Global-Scale Persistent Data.
• Stanford: Stanford Peers
• Microsoft
  • Pastry: A substrate for peer-to-peer applications.
  • PAST: A large-scale, peer-to-peer archival storage facility.
• NYU Secure Computer Systems Group
  • TARZAN is a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network layer.
  • Kademlia is a novel routing algorithm for peer-to-peer networks based on the XOR metric.
  • Coral is a peer-to-peer content distribution system.
• Cornell: CliqueNet is a peer-to-peer, self-organizing, scalable communication protocol that gaurantees anonymity.
• Purdue: DPSR - Dynamic Peer-2-Peer Source Routing.
• UMD: TerraDir - Decentralized Directory Services.
• P2PRep is an approach to P2P security where servents can keep track, and share with others, information about the reputation of their peers.
• Onion Routing is building an Internet-based system that strongly resists traffic analysis, eavesdropping and other attacks both by outsiders and insiders.
• The Circle is a scalable decentralized peer to peer application. At the core of the Circle is a decentralized hash table, or "Chord".

Readings/References:

• Voice Coding Schemes (eg: used in Skype)
• VoIP Tutorial (PPT)
• IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Wiki
• Instant Messaging: Wiki
• Internet Drafts and RFCs: Presence, Instant Messaging

Readings/References:

• Wikipedia entry on SANs
• SNIA Tutorials on Storage Networks
• VoIP Tutorial (PPT)
• TechTutorials

Readings/References:

• DTN Research Group (IRTF) Wiki
• James Sterbenz and Rajesh Krishnan's Tutorial
• Jorg Ott Class (HUT)
• Transport Issues in DTNs

Readings/References:

• Web 2.0 Wiki Entry
• RSS (syndication)
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• XML
• Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
• AJAX
• Weblog (Blog) Publishing