Analisi e Prestazioni di Internet (API) (6 CFU)

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica

Prof. Antonio Pescapè

A.A. 2015-16

Schedule

 Slides will be published (in PDF) after each lecture on the Web Docenti (reserved area).

Lectures Date Resources Topics
1 7/03/2016 Papers:
- V. Cerf and R. Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 637-648, May 1974.
- J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark, "End-to-end arguments in system design", ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2, 4 (November 1984), 277-288.
- D. Clark, "The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols", In Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols (SIGCOMM '88), Vinton Cerf (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 106-114.
 Course Introduction
Introduction to API (Part I)
2 9/03/2016 Papers:
- C. Williamson, "Internet traffic measurement", In IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 70-74, Nov/Dec 2001.

Textbook:
- Chapter 1 		Introduction to API (Part II)
3 14/03/2016 Papers:
- Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Thomas Anderson, "Reverse-Engineering the Internet", In HotNets 2003.

Textbook:
- Chapter 1 		Introduction to API (Part III)
4 16/03/2016 How to read a research paper
How to Read A Paper. S. Keshav. Computer Communication Review (CCR) 2007 		How to read and review a paper
21/03/2016 N/A
 Primavera dell'Universita'
5 23/03/2016 Textbook:
- Chapter 3
 Analitical Background
6 4/04/2016 Textbook:
- Chapter 3
 Analitical Background
7 6/04/2016 Talk of Microsoft Italia on Cloud Platforms for Machine Learning Azure, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Visualization
8 11/04/2016
(2.30 - 6.30 pm)
Netflow and IPFIX
9 14/04/2016 Textbook:
- Chapter 4
 Practical Issues in Internet Measurements and Analysis
10 18/04/2016 Textbook:
- Chapter 5
Measuring the Infrastructure,
Metrics, Issues (Middleboxes)
11 20/04/2016 Papers:
- Manish Jain and Constantinos Dovrolis. 2004. Ten fallacies and pitfalls on end-to-end available bandwidth estimation. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (IMC '04)
- R. Prasad, C. Dovrolis, M. Murray and K. Claffy, "Bandwidth estimation: metrics, measurement techniques, and tools," in IEEE Network, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 27-35, Nov.-Dec. 2003.
- R. S. Prasad, C. Dovrolis and B. A. Mah, "The effect of layer-2 store-and-forward devices on per-hop capacity estimation," INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-Second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications. IEEE Societies, 2003, pp. 2090-2100 vol.3.
- Cheikh Sarr, Claude Chaudet, Guillaume Chelius, Isabelle Guerin Lassous, "Bandwidth Estimation for IEEE 802.11-Based Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1228-1241, October, 2008


Textbook:
- Chapter 5
Capacity and Available Measurement
Part I
12 27/04/2016 Capacity and Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools:
- assolo-0.9a.tar.gz,
- bing_src-1.3.5.tar.gz,
- clink.1.0.tar.gz,
- DietTopp_0.2.tar.gz,
- igi-ptr_2.1.tgz,
- pathchar-a1-linux-2.0.30.tar.gz,
- pathchirp-2.4.1.tar.gz,
- pathrate.tar.gz,
- pchar-1.5.tar.gz,
- probes.tar.Z,
- sprobe-0.3.tgz,
- stab-1.3.1.tar.gz,
- yaz_0.1b.tar.gz,
- pathload_1.3.2.tar.gz,

Textbook:
- Chapter 5
Capacity and Available Measurement
Part II
13 02/05/2016 Papers:
- B. Donnet and T. Friedman, "Internet topology discovery: a survey", In IEEE Comm. Surveys and Tutorials, 2007.
- Augustin et al., "Avoiding traceroute anomalies with Paris traceroute", IMC '06.

Textbook:
- Chapter 5
Topology Measurement
Part I
14 04/05/2016 Papers:
- Srikanth Sundaresan, Walter de Donato, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Sam Crawford, Antonio Pescapè, "Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway", ACM SIGCOMM 2011 proceedings,Toronto, ON, Canada, August 15-19, 2011.
- A. Botta, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, "HoBBIT: a Platform for Monitoring Broadband Performance from the User Network", Sixth International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA) London, UK, 14 April 2014.

Platforms:
- Planetlab
- Skitter
- Archipelago (Ark) Measurement Infrastructure
- DIMES
- RIPE Atlas
- Samknows
- BISMark
- HoBBIT
Large Scale Measurement projects
15 09/05/2016
(2.30 - 6.30 pm), Softel Room 		Projects:
- Misura Internet
- Misura Internet Mobile
AGCOM/FUB presentation about MISURA INTERNET and MISURA INTERNET MOBILE projects
15 11/05/2016 Papers:
- A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, "Do You Trust Your Software-based Traffic Generator?", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.48, no.9, pp.158-165, Sept. 2010.
- A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, "A tool for the generation of realistic network workload for emerging networking scenarios", Computer Networks (Elsevier), Volume 56, Issue 15, pp 3531-3547, October 2012.
Traffic Generation
16 16/05/2016
(2.30 - 4.30 pm), Softel Room
TIM presentation about their mobile QoS/QoE measurement projects
17 18/05/2016 Papers:
- R. Motamedi, R. Rejaie and W. Willinger, "A Survey of Techniques for Internet Topology Discovery", in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1044-1065, Secondquarter 2015.

Textbook:
- Chapter 5
Topology Measurement
Part II
18 23/05/2016
Vodafone presentation about Crowdsourcing-based monitoring of the quality of video streaming over mobile networks
19 25/05/2016 Papers:
- A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, K. C. Claffy, "Issues and Future Directions in Traffic Classification", IEEE Network, January 2012.
- A. Dainotti, W. de Donato, A. Pescapè, "Traffic Identification Engine (TIE): an Open Platform for Traffic Classification", IEEE Network, vol. 28, n. 2, pp. 56-64, March-April 2014.
Traffic Classification
20 30/05/2016 Papers:
- W.Leland, M.s. Taqqu W.Willingfer, D.V.Wilson, "On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic", ACM Sigcomm
- Kihong Park, Walter Willinger, Self-Similar Network Traffic: An Overview

Textbook:
- Chapter 6
Traffic Analysis and Self Similar Internet Traffic
21 1/06/2016
(3 pm - 5 pm), Softel Room 		TIM presentation about monitoring of Telecom Italia Networks
22 6/06/2016 Papers:
- G. Aceto, A. Pescapè, "Internet Censorship Detection: a Survey", Computer Networks (2015), pp. 381-421.
- A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, K. C. Claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapè, Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, Vol. 22, Issue: 6, pp.1964-1977, 2014.
Monitoring Internet Censorship
23 8/06/2016 Papers:
Platforms:
- CloudSurf
Cloud Networks Monitoring
Course Closing Remarks

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