Seminar in
Computer Networks Spring 2025

Networked Systems Group

Join us to explore and discuss classical and recent works in computer networks!

In addition to covering new ideas and big open questions in computer networks, this seminar will hone your skills in scientific presentation, discussion moderation, and critical thinking.

News

Mar 20 The background slides for week 7 are now online.
Mar 18 The discussion slides for week 3 are now online.
Mar 7 The background slides for week 5 are now online.
Feb 13 Website for the 2025 edition is now online.

Contact

Lecturer

  • Laurent Vanbever

Research group Networked Systems Group

Assistants:

  • Sushovan Das
  • Georgia Fragkouli
  • Ayush Mishra

Course information

Refer to the Course Catalogue.

Reviewing platform   HotCRP

Where & When

Thursday 2 pm–4 pm,  ETZ J 91

Week 1 Feb 20
Introduction
Seminar's organization
Laurent   Sushovan   Georgia   Ayush  
Slides
Background for Week 3
Georgia   Ayush  
Week 2 Feb 27
No session
Week 3 Mar 6
Managing contention I
Understanding the Host Network
(SIGCOMM 2024)   Georgia
Paper | Background | Discussion
Principles for Internet Congestion Management
(SIGCOMM 2024)   Ayush
Paper | Background | Discussion
Background for Week 5
Marc Philipp   Eric  
Week 4 Mar 13
No session
Week 5 Mar 20
Managing contention II
Elasticity Detection: A Building Block for Internet Congestion Control
(SIGCOMM 2022)   Marc Philipp
Paper | Background
Scheduling Mix-flows in Commodity Datacenters with Karuna
(SIGCOMM 2016)   Eric
Paper | Background
Background for Week 7
Thomas   Jakob  
Week 6 Mar 27
No session
Week 7 Apr 3
Wide area networks
B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN
(SIGCOMM 2013)   Thomas
Paper | Background
ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Jakob
Paper | Background
Background for Week 9
Axel Lukas   Jiayi  
Week 8 Apr 10
No session
Week 9 Apr 17
Datacenter networks
A Tale of Two Topologies: Exploring Convertible Data Center Network Architectures with Flat-tree
(SIGCOMM 2017)   Axel Lukas
Paper
Shale: A Practical, Scalable Oblivious Reconfigurable Network
(SIGCOMM 2024)   Jiayi
Paper
Background for Week 12
Wilton Arthur   Viola  
Week 10 Apr 24
No session Easter break
Week 11 May 1
No session Labour day
Week 12 May 8
Networking for machine learning
TopoOpt: Co-optimizing Network Topology and Parallelization Strategy for Distributed Training Jobs
(NSDI 2023)   Wilton Arthur
Paper
CASSINI: Network-Aware Job Scheduling in Machine Learning Clusters
(NSDI 2024)   Viola
Paper
Background for Week 13
Ferdinand Leopold   Kevin  
Week 13 May 15
Programmable networks I
Programmable Calendar Queues for High-speed Packet Scheduling
(NSDI 2020)   Ferdinand Leopold
Paper
Everything Matters in Programmable Packet Scheduling
(NSDI 2025)   Kevin
Paper
Background for Week 14
Anja Katerina   Arvid Ernst  
Week 14 May 22
Programmable networks II
FAst in-network GraY failure detection for ISPs
(SIGCOMM 2022)   Anja Katerina
Paper
Masking Corruption Packet Losses in Datacenter Networks with Link-local Retransmission
(SIGCOMM 2023)   Arvid Ernst
Paper
Week 15 May 29
No session Ascension day