TuTh 11:30-1:00 in 6-120
6.829 is a graduate-level class (H 3-0-9) whose goals are:
How does this global network infrastructure work and what are the design principles on which it is based? In what ways are these design principles compromised in practice? How do we make it work better in today's world? How do we ensure that it will work well in the future in the face of rapidly growing scale and heterogeneity? And how should Internet applications be written, so they can obtain the best possible performance both for themselves and for others using the infrastructure? These are some issues that we will grapple with in this course. The course will focus on the design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of large-scale networked systems.
Topics include internetworking
philosophies, unicast and multicast routing, congestion control,
network quality of service, mobile networking, router architectures,
network-aware applications, content dissemination systems, network
security, and performance issues. Material
for the course will be drawn from research papers, industry white
papers, and Internet RFCs.