Covered topics

• Internet routing characterization
• Routing security
• Internet AS relationships
• Traffic engineering
• Critical network infrastructure services: search engines, DNS, mail servers, etc.
• Network security: intrusion detection systems, worms, and honeypots
• Peer to peer and overlay networking
• Sensor networks
• Network measurement: distance estimation, bandwidth measurement, trouble shooting tools
• Content distribution networks
• Network models

Tentative class schedule

Please check the Reading List for the reading material.

The format of the reading summary is here.

Date	Topics	Readings	Presenters
01/06 Thu	Course introduction ([pdf, pdf_6_per_page])	None assigned	Z. Morley Mao
01/11 Tue	Internet Routing Characterization([pdf, pdf_6_per_page])	[Labovitz2000][Shaikh2000][MaoIMC2003]	Z. Morley Mao
01/13 Thu	Internet Routing Security([pdf, pdf_6_per_page])	[Barbir01][Greene01][Freedman][Murphy03]	Z. Morley Mao
01/13 Thu	Overlay Routing	[RON][SOSR]	Z. Morley Mao
01/13 Thu	AS relationships([pdf, pdf_6_per_page])	[Subramanian][Mahajan]	Z. Morley Mao