netread: Network Reading Group

Time: Fridays, 4-5pm*
Place: Room NE43-516*
Organizers: Xiaowei Yang (yxw@lcs.mit.edu) and
Alex C. Snoeren (snoeren@lcs.mit.edu)
Contact: netread-request@salsa.lcs.mit.edu

(Snacks and refreshments will be provided)
* Any deviations the regular schedule will be noted in red.

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The Network Reading Group is a weekly forum for students and faculty to discuss current, interesting, and influential papers in the area of computer networks. At each meeting, the group will focus on one paper which the group members themselves will select. Papers with any connection to networking are fair game, e.g. papers from Sigcomm, SOSP, Mobicom, Infocom, and Transactions on Networking, as well as industry white papers, RFC's, and web pages. One or two members will shape each discussion by presenting an overview of the material and an outline of the discussion. Through discussion the group will clarify the content of the paper and critically assess the paper's contributions and limitations. The group's goal is to not only familiarize members with the current literature in the area of networks, but also to encourage members to meet others with similar interests, exchange ideas, and to stimulate new directions of research.

If you would like to submit a suggestion for a paper, volunteer to lead a discussion, or subscribe to the netread mailing list, please send mail to netread-request@salsa.lcs.mit.edu.

upcoming readings


5/12 Presenter: Joanna L. Kulik
The Stationarity of Internet Path Properties: Routing, Loss, and Throughput, Yin Zhang, Vern Paxson and Scott Shenker, "mysteriously rejected by SIGCOMM"

There is much interest in using network measurements for both modeling and operational purposes. In this paper we focus on the fundamental question of the stationarity of such measurements. That is, to what extent are past measurements a good predictor of the future? We used the NIMI infrastructure and a set of public traceroute servers to capture large measurement datasets of three quantities: routing, packet loss, and TCP throughput. We apply statistical tests to attempt to develop sound characterizations of the stationarity of these data sets, and discuss several types of nonstationarity.

past readings

4/28/00 Karen Wang
RED in a Different Light. V. Jacobson K. Nichols K. Poduri Cisco Systems, draft.
4/28/00 David Andersen
OS Support for Bandwidth Management and Content Adaptation in Internet Applications. David Andersen, Deepak Bansal, Dorothy Curtis, Srinivasan Seshan, and Hari Balkrishnan. Submitted for publication, April 2000.
4/21/00 Xiaowei Yang
Sally Floyd, Mark Handley, Jitendra Padhye and Jorg Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications. To appear in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000.
4/07/00 Doug De Couto
Douglas S.J. De Couto, John Jannotti, David Karger, Jinyang Li and Robert Morris. A Scalable Location Service for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing. Submitted for publication, February 2000.
3/31/00 Alex C. Snoeren
Craig Partridge, Alex C. Snoeren, W. Timothy Strayer, Beverly Schwartz, Matthew Condell, and Isidro Castineyra, FIRE: Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment, To appear in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000.
3/10/00 Deepak Bansal
Deepak Bansal and Hari Balakrishnan, Behavior of TCP-compatible Nonlinear Congestion Control, Submitted for publication, February 2000.

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