CSE 590IS, Internet Services and Systems (Winter 2003)

University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSE 590IS: Internet Systems/Services, Winter 2003

Welcome to the 590IS Home Page.

Instructor: Steve Gribble

[ Administrivia | Paper schedule | Announcements ]

This quarter, we will be holding 590IS instead of 590S. 590IS is designed to be a tour through modern Internet systems, including topics such as clusters, web systems, security, content and data delivery infrastructure, and programming models. This course has two goals: covering the material from a number of influential and interesting papers on these topics, and teaching you to synthesize material on a topic and lead a class discussion on it.

Accordingly, the class will consist of two paper-related components:

For each class, you will need to read one or two papers, prepare paper summaries (CSE551 style), and come to class ready for discussion. Here are your instructions for reviewing papers.
For one class, you will be responsible for reading a small set of papers, picking the one or two papers everybody else will read, and preparing material to lecture and guide discussion. Here are your guidelines for preparing for your lecture/discussion.

Finally, there will be a take-home midterm exam about 2/3rds of the way through the quarter.

Administrivia

Class schedule: Mondays 3:30-4:30, Fridays 3:30-4:30, systems lab
Office hours: Thursdays, 10:30am-noon, 323B Sieg Hall

Here are instructions on joining the class mailing list, as well as an archive of the class mailing list.
The class mailing list address is cse590is@cs.washington.edu.

Your final grade will be assigned based on the following:

35% your lecture
25% midterm
20% class participation
20% paper summaries

Paper Schedule

The full list of papers is available here.

Date	Topic	Leader & slides	other
January 6	Introduction, administrivia	Steve Gribble, intro.pdf
January 10	clusters: fundamentals	Steve Gribble, now.pdf
January 13	no class today
January 17	clusters: Internet services	Steve Gribble, sns.pdf
January 20	Martin Luther King day, holiday
January 24	security: DDoS	Mirco Stern, ddos.pdf
January 27	security: worms	Andrew Whitaker, worms.pdf
January 31	security: intrusion detection	Marianne Shaw, ids.pdf
February 3	security: emerging models	Jonathan Aldrich, emerge.pdf
February 7	web: making servers go fast	Steve Gribble, faster.pdf
February 10	web: caching	Paul Gauthier, caching.pdf
February 14	web: cooperative caching	Krishna Gummadi, coopcache.pdf
February 17	Presidents day, holiday
February 21	wide-area: CDNs	Sushant Jain, CDNs.pdf
February 24	extensibility: novel systems	Eric Lemar, novel.pdf
February 28	extensibility: extensibility to fix availability	Ratul Mahajan, availability.pdf	midterm out
March 3	content transport: digital fountains	Stefan Saroiu and Stefan Siggurdson, coding.pdf
March 7	content transport: multimedia workloads	Steve Gribble	midterm due
March 10	wide-area: anonymization	Richard Dunn
March 14	service models: .NET, SOAP, and all that	Sorin Lerner and Mike Swift