Special Topics, Summer 2009

Advanced Topics in Networking  

Lecture Schedule and Reading List


Date
Topic
Reading
Comments
M, 6/22
Introduction, Online Social Networks and Applications
MMG+07, WBS+09, YKGF06 CLOUDs
W, 6/24
Rethinking Wireless Spectrum Access
RRT08, HND08
WIRELESS
F, 6/26
Project and Open Research Discussion


M, 6/29 Cloud Computing: definition and challenges, Virtual Machines AFG+09, BDF+03, AWS+09 CLOUDS
W, 7/1
Market based Dynamic Spectrum Distribution
ZSSZ08, ZZ09, GBC+07
WIRELESS
F, 7/3
Office Hours: project discussion


M, 7/6
Cloud Computing Infrastructures, PNUTS, MapReduce, Dynamo
CRS+08, DG08, DHJ+07 CLOUDS
W, 7/8
Data-center Networking and Energy Management KCR08, AHC+09, ALV08, GWT+08 CLOUDS
F, 7/10
Office Hours: project discussion

M, 7/13
More infrastructure: Dryad/DryadLinQ, Pig, Improving MapReduce IBY+07, YIF+08, ORS+08, ZKJ+08 CLOUDS
W, 7/15
Rethinking Packet Reception and Recovery GK08, JB07 WIRELESS
F, 7/17
Project Presentations



AFG+09
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing, M. Armbrust, A. Fox, R. Griffith, A. D. Joseph, R. H. Katz, A. Konwinski, G. Lee, D. A. Patterson, A. Rabkin, I. Stoica and M. Zaharia, Berkeley Tech Report, PDF
AHC+09
Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage, Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, Ranveer Chandra, James Scott, and Paramvir Bahl, Rajesh Gupta, NSDI'09, PDF
ALV08
A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture, Mohammad Al-Fares, Alexander Loukissa, Amin Vahdat, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
AWS+09
SnowFlock: Rapid Virtual Machine Cloning for Cloud Computing, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, J. A. Whitney, A. Scannell, S. M. Rumble, P. Patchin, E. de Lara, M. Brudno, Satya, EuroSys'09, PDF
BDF+03
Xen and the Art of Virtualization, P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A.Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt, A. Warfield, SOSP'03, PDF
BMV+
Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles, Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Levine, John Zahorjan, MobiCom'08, PDF
CRS+08
PNUTS: Yahoo's Hosted Data Serving Platform, B. F. Cooper, R. Ramakrishnan, U. Srivastava, A. Silberstein, P. Bohannon, H. Jacobsen, N. Puz, D. Weaver, R. Yerneni, VLDB'08, PDF
DG08
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, OSDI'08, PDF
DHJ+07
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store, Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels, SOSP'07, PDF
GBC+07
A General Framework for Wireless Spectrum Auctions, Sorabh Gandhi, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Lili Cao, Haitao Zheng, Subhash Suri, DySPAN 2007, PDF
GK08
ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks, Shyamnath Gollakota and Dina Katabi, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
GWT+08
DCell: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Network Structure for Data Centers, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Lei Shi, Yongguang Zhang, Songwu Lu, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
HND08
Learning to Share: Narrowband-Friendly Wideband Networks, Hariharan Rahul, Nate Kushman, Dina Katabi, Charles Sodini, and Farinaz Edalat, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
IBY+07
Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks, Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, and Dennis Fetterly, EuroSys'07, PDF
JB07
PPR: Partial Packet Recovery for Wireless Networks, Kyle Jamieson and Hari Balakrishnan, SIGCOMM'07, PDF
KCR08 Floodless in SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises, Changhoon Kim, Matthew Caesar and Jennifer Rexford, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
MMG+07
Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks, Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee, IMC'07, PDF
NRC+09
Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems, Sergiu Nedevschi, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Jaideep Chandrashekar, Bruce Nordman, Nina Taft, NSDI'09, PDF
ORS+08
Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing, C. Olston, B. Reed, U. Srivastava, R. Kumar and A. Tomkins, SIGMOD'08, PDF
WBS+09
User Interactions in Social Networks and their Implications, Christo Wilson, Bryce Boe, Alessandra Sala, Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy and Ben Y. Zhao, EuroSys'09, PDF
RRT08
A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks, Ranveer Chandra, Ratul Mahajan, Thomas Moscibroda, Ramya Raghavendra, Paramvir Bahl, SIGCOMM'08, PDF
YIF+08
DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language, Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu, Ulfar Erlingsson, Pradeep Kumar Gunda, and Jon Currey, OSDI'08, PDF
YKGF06
SybilGuard: Defending Against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, Haifeng Yu, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, Abraham Flaxman, SIGCOMM'06, PDF
ZKJ+08
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments, Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Ion Stoica, OSDI'08, PDF
ZSSZ08
eBay in the Sky: Strategy-Proof Wireless Spectrum Auctions, Xia Zhou, Sorabh Gandhi, Subhash Suri, Haitao Zheng, MobiCom 2008, PDF
ZZ09
TRUST: A General Framework for Truthful Double Spectrum Auctions, Xia Zhou, Haitao Zheng, INFOCOM'09, PDF