Protocol Basics

• J. Kurose and K. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet", Addison-Wesley, (2nd edition--July 2002) or (3rd edition--May 2004).

Internet Architecture

• Simple Overivew
  • http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html

• Historical Design Papers
  • J. Saltzer, D. Reed and D. Clark, "End-to-End Arguments in System Design", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 2, num. 4, pp. 277-288, November 1984.

  • Clark, D., "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols", Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, Stanford, California, USA, pp. 106-114, August 1988.

History of the Internet

• General Information
  • http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

• Detailed History from ISOC
  • http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

• Book on the History of the Internet
  • K. Hafner and M. Lyon, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet", Touchstone Books, January 1998.

• Time Line
  • http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Current and Historical Snapshots

• Topology Project
  • http://topology.eecs.umich.edu/

• Internet Mapping Project
  • http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/

• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
  • http://www.caida.org/tools/

• Cyber-Geography Research
  • http://www.cybergeography.org/