Round I: Presentation Topics: Background, Motivation, Fundamentals:

1. Technology: Virtual Lans, 802.1Q, configuration options, Switches, Routers

2. Technology: BGP, attributes, BGP configuration commands, route-map, neighbor, MED etc.

Matt Caesar and Jennifer Rexford, "BGP policies in ISP networks,"

IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on interdomain routing,

November/December 2005.

3.

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, Portland, Oregon, 2004.

4. Configuration Errors and their Impact

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)

Understanding BGP Misconfigurations

Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall and Tom Anderson, Sigcomm 2002

5. Fault Characterization/Diagnosis:

Chapter 5, Textbook

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 ].

Oppenheimer, D., Archana Ganapathi, and David A. Patterson. Why do Internet services fail, and what can be done about it? 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '03), March 2003. [pdf]

6. Security: DDoS Attacks:

V. Paxson, An Analysis of Using Reflectors for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (PDF) Computer Communication Review 31(3), July 2001.

Misusing Unstructured P2P Systems to Perform DoS Attacks: The Network That Never Forgets"

E. Athanasopoulos and K.G.Anagnostakis and E.P. Markatos,

7. User 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 (OSDI 2004)
Automatic Misconfiguration Troubleshooting with PeerPressure. 245-258

8. Malware in Peer-to-Peer Networks:

A Study of Malware in Peer-to-peer Networks

Andrew Kalafut, Indiana University; Abhinav Acharya, Indiana University; Minaxi Gupta, Indiana U

niversity

Malware Prevalence in the KaZaA File-Sharing Network

Seungwon Shin, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI); Jaeyeon Jung, MIT;

Hari Balakrishnan, MIT

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