Tentative Paper List:
Vision Papers:
Chapters 1-3: Intro, FCAPS, Network Element
Patterson02: David Patterson , Aaron Brown , Pete Broadwell , George Candea , Mike Chen , Jame
s Cutler , Patricia Enriquez , Armando Fox , Emre Kiciman , Matthew Merzbacher , David Oppenheime
r , Naveen Sastry , William Tetzlaff , Jonathan Traupman , Noah Treuhaft, "Recovery Oriented Comp
uting (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques and Case
Studies",
rkeley,
Kephart03: Jeffrey O. Kephart. "The vision of autonomic computing", Computer 36,1 (Jan 2003),
41-50.
A Knowledge Plane for the Internet. David D. Clark (MIT), Craig Partridge (BBN Technologies),
J. Christopher Ramming (SRI), John Wroclawski (MIT). Sigcomm, 2003.
Background /Motivation Papers:
Matt Caesar and Jennifer Rexford, "BGP policies in ISP networks,"
IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on interdomain routing,
November/December 2005.
Impact
of Configuration Errors on DNS Robustness
Vasileios Pappas (UCLA), Zhiguo Xu (UCLA), Songwu Lu (UCLA), Daniel Massey
(Colorado State), Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins), Lixia Zhang (UCLA)
Kiran Nagaraja,
Fábio
Oliveira, Ricardo
Bianchini, Richard
P. Martin, Thu
D. Nguyen: PDF.
Understanding and Dealing with Operator
Mistakes in Internet Services, OSDI 2004
Configuration
Management: Chapter 4
Nick Feamster and Hari Balakrishnan
Detecting BGP Configuration Faults with Static Analysis
In Proc. 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), May 2005
Network
Configuration Management via Model Finding
Sanjai Narain, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
G. Xie, J. Zhan, D. A. Maltz, H. Zhang, A. Greenberg, G. Hjalmtysson, J. Rexford,
On Static Reachability Analysis of IP Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
D. A. Maltz, J. Zhan, G. Xie, G. Hjalmtysson, A. Greenberg, H. Zhang,
Routing Design in Operational Networks: A Look from the Inside
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2004,
Network-Wide Inter-Domain Routing Policies: Design and
Realization.
http://www.net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~anja/feldmann/papers.html#config
CONMan
- Taking the Complexity out of Network Management
H. Ballani, P. Francis (INM 2006)
Fault Diagnosis:
Bianca
Schroeder, Garth Gibson. "A large
scale study of failures in high-performance-computing systems." .
International Symposium on Dependable
Systems and Networks (DSN '06). [ pdf | ps ].
IP Fault Localization Via Risk Modeling
Ramana Rao Kompella, Jennifer Yates, Albert Greenberg, and Alex C. Snoeren
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked System
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/score-nsdi05.pdf
A. Adya, P. Bahl, R. Chandra, and L. Qiu,
Architecture and Techniques for Diagnosing Faults in IEEE 802.11 InfrastructureNetworks,
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2004,
http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl/publications.aspx
Troubleshooting:
Victor Bahl, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Ranveer Chandra, Moises Goldszmidt, Rebecca Isaacs, Srikanth Kandula, Lun Li, John MacCormick, David A. Maltz, Richard Mortier, Mike Wawrzoniak, Ming Zhang, Discovering Dependencies for Network Management, HotNets-V, Nov. 2006.
Emre Kiciman, David A. Maltz, Moises Goldszmidt, John C. Platt, Mining Web Logs to Debug Distant Connectivity Problems, In MineNet Workshop at SIGCOMM'06, Sept. 2006.
Helen J. Wang, John
C. Platt, Yu
Chen, Ruyun
Zhang, Yi-Min
Wang: PDF
Automatic Misconfiguration
Troubleshooting with PeerPressure. 245-258
Traffic
Measurements/Classification:
BLINC: Multilevel Traffic Classification in the Dark (paper) (Sigcomm 05)
Thomas Karagiannis, UC Riverside
Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, Cambridge
Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside
Topology Discovery:
Y. Breitbart, M. Garofalakis, C. Martin, R. Rastogi, S. Seshadri and A. Silberschatz.
Topology discovery in heterogeneous IP networks . In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2000.
http://www.bell-labs.com/org/1134/index.html
Measuring
ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel.
Ethernet Topology Discovery without Network Assistance, ICNP 2004
R. Black, A. Donnelly, C. Fournet
Cisco Discovery Protocol,
Clean Slate
Architectures/Refactoring functionality:
Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, David A. Maltz, Andy Myers, Jennifer Rexford, Geoffrey Xie,
Hong Yan, Jibin Zhan, Hui Zhang. "A Clean Slate 4D Approach to Network Control and Management" .
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. October, 2005
Design and Implementation of a Routing Control Platform
M. Caesar, D. Caldwell, N. Feamster, J. Rexford, A. Shaikh, and K. van der Merwe
2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI),
SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks
Martin Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Aditya Akella, Michael Freedman, Dan Boneh, Nick
McKeown, Scott Shenker
In Usenix Security, August 2006
http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/publications.html
Ehab Al-Shaer, Hazem Hamed, Raouf Boutaba and
Masum Hasan, "Conflict
Classification and Analysis of Distributed Firewall Policies." In IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Volume 23, Issue 10,
October 2005. (Nominated for Best JSAC Award paper for year 2005)
DDoS /Spam/Unwanted Traffic:
Botz-4-Sale:
Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds (NSDI 05)
Srikanth Kandula and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Matthias Jacob,
A Framework for
Classifying Denial of Service Attack
Alefiya
Hussain, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos, (USC/ISI)
V. Paxson, An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (PDF) Computer Communication Review 31(3), July 2001.
V.T. Lam and
Puppetnets: Misusing Web Browsers as a Distributed Attack Infrastructure.
Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers (Sigcomm 06)
- Ramachandran, N. Feamster
RE:
Reliable Email
Scott Garriss, Carnegie
Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research Pittsburgh;
Michael J. Freedman, New York University and Stanford University; Brad
Karp, University College London; David Mazières, Stanford University;
Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
Vigilante:
End-to-End Containment of Internet
Manuel Costa; Jon
Crowcroft; Miguel Castro; Antony Rowstron; Lidong Zhou; Lintao Zhang; Paul
Barham PDF
Managing Overlay and
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Experiences
Building PlanetLab
Larry Peterson, Andy Bavier, Marc E. Fiuczynski, and Steve Muir
Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and
Implementation (OSDI '06)
A First Look at Peer-to-Peer
Lidong Zhou1 , Lintao Zhang1 , Frank McSherry1 , Nicole Immorlica2 , Manuel Costa3 and Steve Ch
ien1
A Study of Malware in Peer-to-peer Networks
Andrew Kalafut,
niversity
Malware Prevalence in the KaZaA File-Sharing Network
Seungwon Shin, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI); Jaeyeon Jung, MIT;
Hari Balakrishnan, MIT
http://www.imconf.net/imc-2006/program.html
Misusing Unstructured P2P Systems to Perform DoS Attacks: The Network That Never Forgets"
E. Athanasopoulos and K.G.Anagnostakis and E.P. Markatos,
N. Naoumov and K.W. Ross,
Exploiting P2P systems for DDoS attacks".
Miscellaneous:
Brian White,
Jay
Lepreau, Leigh
Stoller, Robert
Ricci, Shashi
Guruprasad, Mac
Newbold, Mike
Hibler, Chad
Barb, Abhijeet
Joglekar:
An Integrated Experimental Environment for Distributed Systems and
Networks. PDF
Background Topics:
NATs (Network Address Translators)
Firewalls
VLANs
DHCP
MPLS
VPN
BGP
Explanation of a router configuration file
SNMP
Netflow
CIM/NetConf
Gnutella/BitTorrent.