B649-Spring'09

CSCI B649: Internet Services and Protocols

Announcements

4/20/09: Reading for Wed, 4/22/09, posted.

4/12/09: Readings (one each) for Wed, 4/15/09, and Mon, 4/20/09, posted.

4/6/09: Special schedule for Wed, 4/8/09, and Mon, 4/13/09.

3/31/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 4/6/09, posted. Looking for volunteer(s).

3/29/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 4/1/09, posted.

3/24/09: Colloquium of special interest: "The Internets e did not build" (Friday, 3pm, LH102).

3/24/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 3/30/09, posted.

3/13/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 3/23/09, posted.

3/3/09: Readings (2 each) for the week of 3/9/09, posted.

2/27/09: Reading (2) for Wed, 3/4/09, posted.

2/25/09: Reading (2) for Mon, 3/2/09, posted.

2/19/09: Reading for Wed, 2/25/09, posted.

2/17/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 2/23/09, posted.

2/10/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 2/18/09, posted. I need volunteers for this week.

2/9/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 2/16/09, posted.

2/9/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 2/11/09, posted.

1/29/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 2/9/09, posted.

1/29/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 2/4/09, posted. I need a volunteer.

1/28/09: No class due to heavy snow. Readings for Wed, 1/28/09, will be discussed on 2/2/09.

1/22/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 1/28/09, are posted. I need a volunteer.

1/20/09: Readings (2) for Mon, 1/26/09, are posted.

1/14/09: Readings (2) for Wed, 1/21/09, are posted. 1/19/09 is MLK holiday.

1/8/09: Welcome! The reading for Wed, 1/14/09, is posted.

General Course Information (Spring 2009)

Time: Mon & Wed, 9:30pm - 10.45pm

Location: Lindley Hall 019 (LH019)

Instructor: Minaxi Gupta

Email:

Office: Lindley Hall (LH) 230B

Office Hours: By appointment

Pre-requisites

This is an advanced graduate level course in computer networking and requires the background of the following courses:

A graduate/senior level networking course (P538 or equivalent)
An operating systems course (B534 or similar)

Course Objectives

The goals in this course are the following:

To understand the various issues facing the Internet today. The focus will be on various security issues and on the design of a new, robust Internet.
To investigate a research problem in networking security through a semester long research project.

Grading Policy and Workload

The approximate grade break-up for the class is as follows:

Class participation: 50%
Project: 50%

The course reading material is available online. We will study about two research papers in detail in each class. Students are required to send a critical review of the relevant papers by 8:30am the day of the class via plain text email or pdf attachment with "B649", date, and topic(s) covered in the subject. Each class will involve a combination of: presentation of material by the instructor, student presentation(s), and discussion of critical issues raised in the paper(s). Class participation part of the grade will be judged on: quality of participation in class discussions, class presentation(s), and critical review of papers.

The course project will be done in small teams and each team will work on a separate research problem. Students will have the flexibility to either choose from the problems suggested by the instructor or formulate their own with the help of the instructor. Projects will involve additional project-specific background reading and their progress will be monitored through weekly meetings throughout the semester. Each project is expected to produce a publication-quality report at completion. The project grade will be judged on: findings of the project, project report, and presentation of the project.