Round II Presentation Topics

Bottom-up Configuration Analysis

1. 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 PDF

2. Network Configuration Management via Model Finding
Sanjai Narain, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

3. 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, Orlando, FL, March 2005

Top-down Configuration Design.

1.. Network-Wide Inter-Domain Routing Policies: Design and Realization. Hagen Boehm, Anja Feldmann, Olaf Maennel, Christian Reiser, Ruediger Volk, Draft, April 2005

http://www.net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~anja/feldmann/papers.html#config

2. Routing Policy Specification Language

Use material from:

RFC 2622 (rfc2622) - Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)

RFC 2650 (rfc2650) - Using RPSL in Practice

Fault Diagnosis

1. 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

2. 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, Philadelphia, PA, USA (September 2004)

http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl/publications.aspx

3. Detecting Network Disruptions with Network-Wide Analysis
Y. Huang, N. Feamster, A. Lakhina, J. Xu
Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGMETRICS '07 Draft]

San Diego, CA, June 2007.

Clean-Slate Architectures:

1. 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),

Boston, MA, May 2005

2. 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

Security/Dealing with Unwanted Traffic:

1. Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers (Sigcomm 06)

1. Ramachandran, N. Feamster

2. A Framework for Classifying Denial of Service Attack Alefiya Hussain, John Heidemann, Christos Papadopoulos, (USC/ISI)

3. Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms

Manuel Costa; Jon Crowcroft; Miguel Castro; Antony Rowstron; Lidong Zhou; Lintao Zhang; Paul Barham

PDF

Traffic Classification:

1. BLINC: Multilevel Traffic Classification in the Dark (paper) (Sigcomm 05)
Thomas Karagiannis, UC Riverside
Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, Cambridge
Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside

User Troubleshooting

1. The two short papers below:

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.

Miscellaneous Topics: (You may want to pick 2 of the topics below, to have enough material for a lecture).

1. SNMP

Textbook: Chapter 10

Supplementary Material:

RFC 1157 (rfc1157) - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

2. Netflow

Textbook: Chapter 11.

Supplementary Material:

http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipfix-charter.html

3. VPNs

BGP/MPLS VPNs rfc 2547

4. Accounting and Billing, Chapter 6, Textbook;

5. Performance Assessment and Optimization, Chapter 7, Textbook.