Course Lecture Plan

Note: The outline will be updated over weeks, please check out the latest readings one week before the date and read them before class!

Date

Lectures Topics

Speakers

Reading & Notes
Mon Feb 4 Class overview Kai Chen

Wed Feb 6 Data center network structures (I) Defense: Ye Tao [pptx]
Offense: Li Chen [pptx]

Fattree (In-class presentation) | VL2 | BCube | DCell
Mon Feb 18 Data center network structures (II) Defense: Yang Peng [pptx]
Offense: Zhiyang Su [potx]

Helios | c-Through | OSA (In-class presentation)
Project group formed (up to 4 students per group)

Wed Feb 20 Data center network structures (III) Defense: Wei Sun [pdf]
Offense: Yin Zhu [pptx]

Flyways | 3D-beamforming (In-class presentation) | Jellyfish
Mon Feb 25 Network configuration Defense: Xiangming Dai [pdf]
Offense: Ting Wang [pptx]

DAC | PortLand (In-class presentation) | Alias
Wed Feb 27 Measurement and Management Presenter: Li Chen [pptx]

Traffic1 | Traffic2 | Failure | NetPilot (In-class presentation)

Mon Mar 4 Transport Protocol Presenter: Ye Tao [ ppt ]

DCTCP (In-class presentation)| MPTCP | D3

Wed Mar 6 Data center latency Presenter: Zhiyang Su[pdf]

D^2TCP (In-class presentation) | Preemptive | DeTail
Project proposal due

Mon Mar 11 Computing framework Presenter: Yang Peng [pptx]

Mapreduce (In-class presentation) | Spark | RoPE | Mantri

Wed Mar 13 Latency (2) Presenter: Wei Bai [pdf]

DeTail (In-class presentation)

Mon Mar 18 Computing framework (2) Presenter: Yin Zhu [pptx]

Spark (In-class presentation)

Wed Mar 20 Data center resource sharing Presenter: Wei Sun [pptx]

Faircloud (In-class presentation) | Seawall | Mesos

Mon Mar 24 Software defined networking Presenter: Xiangming Dai [pdf]

Ethane (In-class presentation) | Onix

Wed Mar 27 Resource sharing (2) Presenter: Ting Wang [pptx]

Seawall (In-class presentation)

Mon Apr 8 Mid-term project presentation

Wed Apr 10 Latency (3) Presenter: Li Chen []

Less-is-More (In-class presentation)

Mon Apr 15 Computing framework (3) Presenter: Ye Tao [pptx]

Mapreduce Online (In-class presentation)

Wed Apr 17 Computing framework (4) Presenter: Yang Peng []

RoPE (In-class presentation)

Wed Apr 22 Computing framework (5) Presenter: Yin Zhu [ppt]

Dryad (In-class presentation)

Wed Apr 24 Resource sharing (3) Presenter: Wei Sun [pptx]

Proteus (In-class presentation)

Wed Apr 29 Software defined networking (2) Presenter: Zhiyang Su [pdf]

DevoFlow (In-class presentation)

Mon May 6 Data center reliability Presenter: Ting Wang [pdf]

Surviving-failures (In-class presentation)

Wed May 8 Software defined networking (3) Presenter: Xiangming Dai [pdf]

Open-Sketch (In-class presentation)

Mon May 13 New transport design Presenter: Li Chen []

pFabric (In-class presentation)

Mon May 15 Computing framework (6) Presenter: Ye Tao [pptx]

Omega and Mesos (In-class presentation)

Notes: You may find the brochure useful: Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology by Michael J. Hanson, 1990, revised 2000 Dylan McNamee.