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 2 Course overview Kai Chen

Fri Feb 6 Datacenter network structures (I) Defense: Hong Zhang
Offense: Wei Bai

VL2 (In-class presentation) | PortLand | BCube | Fattree
Mon Feb 9 Datacenter network structures (II) Defense: Gaoxiong Zeng
Offense: Li Chen

Mordia (In-class presentation) | Helios | c-Through | OSA

Fir Feb 13 Datacenter network structures (III) Defense: Hao Jin
Offense: Hong Zhang

FireFly (In-class presentation) | Quartz | 3D-beamforming | Flyways
Project group formed (up to 4 students per group)

Mon Feb 16 Datacenter transport (I) Defence: Ahmed MOHAMED ABDELMONIEM SAYED
Offense: Wei Bai

DCTCP (In-class presentation) | D2TCP | MCP

Mon Feb 23 Datacenter transport (II) Defence: Bairen Yi
Offense: Li Chen

pFabric (In-class presentation) | PDQ | D3

Fri Feb 27 Brining Performance to the Cloud Dongsu Han
(Professor, KAIST)

slides

Mon Mar 2 Load Balancing in Data Center Networks Hong (Henry) Xu
(Professor, CityU)

slides

Fri Mar 6 Datacenter transport (III) Defence: Hengky Susanto
Offense: Wei Bai

MPTCP(NSDI) (In-class presentation) | MPTCP(Sigcomm)

Mon Mar 9 Datacenter transport (IV) Defence: Jiayue Li, Yan Mei
Offense: Wei Bai

PASE (In-class presentation)

Fri Mar 13 Load balancing (I) Defence: Libin Liu
Offense: Shuihai Hu

WCMP (In-class presentation) | Hedera

Fri Mar 16 Load balancing (II) Defence: Hong Zhang
Offense: Wei Bai

CONGA (In-class presentation) | FlowBender

Fri Mar 20 Load balancing (III) Defence: Shuihai Hu
Offense: Bairen Yi

Duet (In-class presentation)

Mon Mar 23 Inter-datacenter TE Defence: FUNG, King Hong
Offense: Shuihai Hu

B4 (In-class presentation) | SWAN

Wed Mar 25 Coflow Defence: Hengky Susanto
Offense: Hao Jin

Baraat (In-class presentation) | Varys

Fri Mar 27 Recommendation System on Big Data Wenyuan Dai

slides

Mon Mar 30 Network Virtualization (I) Defence: Bairen Yi
Offense: Shuihai Hu

CloudMirror (In-class presentation) | Oktopus | Proteus

Fri Apr 10 Network Virtualization (II) Defence: Shuihai Hu
Offense: Bairen Yi

NVP (In-class presentation)

Mon Apr 13 Cutting Tail Latency in Cloud Data Stores via Adaptive Replica Selection Marco Canini
(Professor, UCL Belgium)

slides

Fri Apr 17 The Basic of SDN Defence: Hengky Susanto
Offense: /

slides

Mon Apr 20 Distributed Computing Frameworks Defence: Jiayue Li, Yan Mei
Offense: /

Mapreduce and Spark (In-class presentation)

Wed Apr 22 Information-Agnostic Flow Scheduling for Commodity Data Centers Defence: Wei Bai
Offense: Ahmed MOHAMED ABDELMONIEM SAYED


Fri Apr 24 Learning on Big Data and Application to Disk Failure Prediction Wenyuan Dai

TBD

Mon Apr 27 Kai Chen


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