Books/Suggested Extra Readings/References/Notes

Books

• Srinivasan Keshav: An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking
• Douglas Comer: Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, 5th Edition, 2005
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (Previous ECSE-6600 Textbook)
• J. Kurose, K. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet (ECSE-4670 Textbook)
• A. Kumar, D. Manjunath, J. Kuri, Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach (a good analytical book on networking)
• Radia Perlman, Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols, 2nd Edition
• John Moy, OSPF: Anatomy of An Internet Routing Protocol
• John W Stewart, BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
• Sam Halabi, Danny McPherson, Internet Routing Architectures
• Christian Huitema, Routing in the Internet
• Christian Huitema, IPv6: the New Internet Protocol
• William Stallings, Snmp, Snmpv2, Snmpv3, and Rmon 1 and 2
• Naganand Doraswamy, Dan Harkins, IPSEC: The New Security Standard for the Inter- net, Intranets, and Virtual Private Networks
• Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd Edition
• W. R. Cheswick, S.M. Bellovin, Firewalls and Internet Security

Videos etc

• NANOG Video/Talk Index

Network Architecture and Review of Basic Networking Ideas

• Reference NOTES: Network Architecture: Principles and Guidelines (REFERENCE NOTES) : {In PDF | In MS Word }
• Reading: Saltzer, Reed, Clark: "End-to-End arguments in System Design"
• Reading: Clark: "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols":
• Reading: Clark et al, "Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet"
• Reading: Kawadia, Kumar , A Cautionary Perspective on Cross-Layer Design.
• Reading: Anderson et al: "Design Guidelines for Robust Internet Protocols"
• Reading: Tennenhouse et al, A survey of active networks research,
• Reading: Balakrishnan et al: "A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet"
• Reference: Stoica et al, "Internet Indirection Infrastructure",
• Reference: Peterson et al: "Overcoming the Internet Impasse through Virtualization"
• Reference: Rexford et al: "Network-Wide Decision Making: Toward A WaferThin Control Plane"
• Reference: Fernandez et al: "Is IP going to take over the world (of communications)?"
• Reference: RFC 2775: Internet Transparency: In HTML
• Reference: Blumenthal, Clark, "Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world"
• Reference: Metcalfe and Boggs, "ETHERNET: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Area Networks"
• Reference: Boggs, Mogul, Kent, Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality.

Internetworking and IP

• Reading: Cerf, Kahn: "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication"
• Reading: Mogul etal: "Fragmentation Considered Harmful"
• Reading: Addressing 101: Notes on Addressing: In PDF | In MS Word
• Reading: Notes for Protocol Design, E2e Principle, IP and Routing: In PDF
• Reference: RFC 791: Internet Protocol (IP) Spec.: In HTML

Routing

• Reading: Routing 101: Notes on Routing: In PDF | In MS Word
• Reading: Khanna and Zinky, The revised ARPANET routing metric
• Reference: RFC 2328: OSPF Version 2: In HTML
• Reference: Garcia-Luna-Aceves: "Loop-free Routing Using Diffusing Computations" :
• Reading: Alaettinoglu, Jacobson, Yu: "Towards Milli-Second IGP Convergence"
• Reading: Geoff Huston, Commentary on Inter-domain Routing in the Internet
• Reference: BGP-4 Standards Document: In TXT
• Reading: Hari Balakrishnan Wide-Area Unicast Internet Routing (MIT Class Notes)
• Reading: Norton, Internet Service Providers and Peering
• Reading: Labovitz et al, Delayed Internet Routing Convergence
• Reference: Paxson, End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet,
• Reading: Interdomain Routing: Additional Notes: In PDF | In MS Word
• Reference Site: Griffin, Interdomain Routing Links
• Reference Site: Cisco Technologies Tutorials Page
• Reference Site: IETF Routing Area Working Groups
• Reference: Tsuchiya, "The Landmark Hierarchy: A New Hierarchy for Routing in Very Large Networks"
• Reference Site: NIMROD Architecture

Transport Layer Design, Congestion Control, TCP

• Reading: Karn/Partridge: "Improving RTT Estimates in Reliable Transport Protocols"
• Reading: Jacobson: "Congestion Avoidance and Control" :
• Reading: Chiu/Jain: "Analysis of Increase/Decrease Algorithms for Congestion Avoidance..":
• Reading: Floyd and Jacobson "Random Early Detection gateways for Congestion Avoidance"
• Reading: Ramakrishnan and Jain, A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer,
• Reading:: Padhye et al, "Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation"
• Reading: Low, Lapsley: "Optimization Flow Control, I: Basic Algorithm and Convergence"
• Reading: Kalyanaraman et al: "The ERICA Switch Algorithm for ABR Traffic Management in ATM Networks"
• Reading: Harrison, Xia, Kalyanaraman, Ramachandran: "An Edge-based Framework for Flow Control"
• Reference: Spring et al, Robust ECN Signaling,
• Reference: S. Floyd and K. Fall: "Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet"
• Reference: Bansal and Balakrishnan: "Binomial Congestion Control Algorithms"
• Reference: Brakmo and Peterson. TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet.
• Reference: RFC 793 (TCP Specification): In HTML
• Reference: RFC 1323 TCP Extensions for High Performance: In HTML
• Reference: RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control: In HTML
• Reference: RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options: In HTML
• Reference: Keshav, Packet-Pair Flow Control
• Reference: Floyd et al, Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications
• Reference: Balakrishnan et al, An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts

Naming

• Reading: RFC 1034: Domain Name System: Concepts: In HTML
• Reading: Mockapetris and Dunlap, "Development of the Domain Name System"
• Reference: RFC 2181: Clarifications to the DNS Specification: In HTML
• Reading: Balakrishnan et al: "A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet":

Multicast

• Reading: Deering and Cheriton, Multicast Routing in Datagram Internetworks and Extended LANs,
• Reading: Deering et al An Architecture for Wide-Area Multicast Routing
• Reading: Holbrook and Cheriton: "IP Multicast Channels: EXPRESS Support for Large-scale Single-source Applications"
• Reading: Byers et al: "A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data"
• Reading: C. Diot et al: "Deployment issues with IP multicast"
• Reference: Kumar et al, The MASC/BGMP Architecture for Inter-domain Multicast Routing,

IPv6, NAT, RSIP

• Reference Sites: IPv6 Links | IETF IPv6 Working Group (latest spec revisions) | IPv6 List of Specifications
• Reading: Hinden, IP Next Generation Overview
• Reference : RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, In HTML
• Reading: RFC 2893: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers, In HTML
• Reading: RFC 3056, Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds, In HTML
• Reference Site: IETF NAT Working Group
• Reference: RFC 2663: IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations: In HTML
• Reading: RFC 3022: Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT): In HTML
• Reference: Borella et al, RFC 3102: Realm Specific IP: Framework, In HTML

Beyond Best-Effort, QoS

• Reading: S. Shenker: "Fundamental Design Issues for the Future Internet"
• Reading: Clark and Tennenhouse: "Architectural Consideration for a New Generation of Protocols"
• Reading: A. Demers: "Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm"
• Reference: Clark, Shenker and Zhang, Supporting Real-Time Applications in an Integrated Services Packet Network: Architecture and Mechanisms
• Reading: Clark and Feng, Explicit Allocation of Best-Effort Packet Delivery Service
• Reference: Stoica, Shenker, Zhang: Core -Stateless Fair Queueing: Achieving Approximately Fair Allocations in High Speed Networks

Security, Network Protection, DDoS

• Reference: RFC 2401:Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol: In HTML
• Reference: RFC 1510: The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5): In HTML
• Reference: RFC 2409: The Internet Key Exchange (IKE): In HTML
• Reading: Savage et al, Practical Network Support for IP Traceback
• Reference: Snoeren et al, Hash-based IP Traceback

Active Networks, Overlay Networks, Application-level Protocols

• Reading: Wetherall, Active network vision and reality: lessons from a capsule-based system,
• Reading: Tennenhouse et al, A survey of active networks research,
• Reading: Clarke, et al, Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System
• Reading: Stoica et al, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
• Reference: Stoica et al, "Internet Indirection Infrastructure",

High Speed Routing and Networks

• Reading: Ruiz-Sanchez: Survey and taxonomy of IP address lookup algorithms
• Reading: Gupta and McKeown, Algorithms for Packet Classification
• Reference: Baboescu and Varghese, Scalable Packet Classification
• Reference: C. Partridge et al., A 50 Gb/s IP Router
• Reference: Nick McKeown: "The Tiny Tera: A Packet Switch Core"
• Reference: RFC 2615: PPP over SONET/SDH: In HTML