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. If the topic you choose has overlaps with materials covered in class, I will expect that the case study covers far more depth than what is covered in class.

1. The case study proposal should have:
   • List of sub-topics to be covered
   • List of papers, IETF working groups, RFCs, NANOG talks 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.

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. If the topic you choose has overlaps with materials covered in class, I will expect that the case study covers far more depth than what is covered in class.
5. Badly written reports or reports with more "fluff" than clear technical exposition will lose points in the evaluation.

• NANOG Video/Talk Index
• 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