Computer System Engineering

Week 7: Networking Part III

Lecture 12: In-Network Resource Management

Lecture 12 Outline

1. Introduction
2. DropTail
3. RED
4. ECN
5. ED/ECN vs. DropTail
6. Traffic Differentiation
7. Delay-based Scheduling
8. Bandwidth-based Scheduling
9. Round-Robin
10. Weighted Round-Robin
11. Deficit Round-Robin
12. Discussion

• Detailed Outline

Lecture Slides

• Lecture 12 Slides: In-Network Resource Management (PDF)

Reading

No readings assigned

Recitation 12: Data Center Transmission Control Protocol (DCTP)

• Read “__Data Center TCP (DCTCP) (PDF - 3.1MB)” by M. Alizadeh, A. Greenberg, D. Maltz, J. Padhye & P. Patel
• DCTP Assignment

Lecture 13: Networking: P2P Networks + Content Distribution Network (CDN)

Lecture 13 Outline

1. Introduction
2. File-Sharing
3. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Networks for File-Sharing
4. BitTorrent: How to Incentivize Peers to Upload
5. VoIP: Voice over IP
6. Video-Streaming (Briefly)

• Detailed Outline

Lecture Slides

• Lecture 13 Slides: Networking: P2P Networks + CDNs (PDF)

Reading

• No readings assigned

Recitation 13: Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)

• Read “The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications (PDF)” by E. Nygren, R. Sitaraman & J. Sun
• CDN Assignment

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