Seminar in
Communication Networks Spring 2022

Networked Systems Group

Join us on a fascinating journey through cutting-edge networking research!

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

News

March 3 Important!
Many students de-registered from the seminar; too few are left for the good operation of the course.
Consequently, the seminar is canceled for this semester.
Feb 25 The paper assignment in now online.
Feb 24 First session is today!
  The full seminar's schedule is now online.
  Student accounts on HotCRP (the site for writing your reviews) should have been created now,
and everyone has been assigned the furst two papers to review.
Feb 23 The first papers and Zoom link are now online.
Registered students should have received an email with more details information for the first session (Feb. 24).
Feb 9 Website for 2022 goes live.

Contact

Lecturers

  • Laurent Vanbever
  • Romain Jacob

Research group Networked Systems Group

Course information

Refer to the Course Catalogue.

Reviewing platform   HotCRP
Chat workspace       seminar-net-ethz.slack.com

Where & When

Thursday 2 pm–4 pm    Cancelled!

Session 1 Feb 24
Introduction to the Course
Seminar's organization   Laurent   Romain
Slides
Resources
How to read a paper
How to read a research paper
Writing reviews for systems conferences
Session 2 March 3
Replicability and Benchmarking
TriScale: A Framework Supporting Replicable Performance Evaluations in Networking
(JSys 2021)   Romain
Paper
Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?
(NSDI 2020)   Romain
Paper | Authors' slides | Video
Session 3 March 10
Network modeling
MimicNet: fast performance estimates for data center networks with machine learning
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Valerio
Paper
Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Clemens
Paper
Session 4 March 17
Programmable networks
Flightplan: Dataplane Disaggregation and Placement for P4 Programs
(NSDI 2021)   Kilian
Paper
Flow Event Telemetry on Programmable Data Plane
(SIGCOMM 2020)   Kai
Paper
Other interesting reads (optional)

Using deep programmability to put network owners in control
(CCR 2020)
Paper
Session 5 March 24
Congestion control (1)
ECN or Delay: Lessons Learnt from Analysis of DCQCN and TIMELY
(CoNEXT 2016)   Pascal
Paper
Swift: Delay is Simple and Effective for Congestion Control in the Datacenter
(SIGCOMM 2020)   August
Paper
Session 6 March 31
Network monitoring
CocoSketch: high-performance sketch-based measurement over arbitrary partial key query
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Silvan
Paper
Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Mohamed
Paper
Session 7 April 7
Traffic engineering
Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks
(NSDI 2010)   Test-of-Time Award   Emir
Paper
TEAVAR: striking the right utilization-availability balance in WAN traffic engineering
(SIGCOMM 2019)   Floris
Paper
Session 8 April 14
Congestion control (2)
Toward formally verifying congestion control behavior
(SIGCOMM 2021)   Adviki
Paper
Data center TCP (DCTCP)
(CCR 2010)   Test-of-Time Award   Matthias
Paper
April 21
Easter Break
Session 10 April 28
Reproducibility project
Reproduce stuff
Session 11 May 5
Reproducibility project
Reproduce stuff
Session 12 May 12
Reproducibility project
Reproduce stuff
Session 13 May 19
Reproducibility project
Reproduce stuff
May 26
Ascension
Session 15 June 2
Reproducibility project
Final presentations
Hand-in deadline: June 1, 23:59