I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, F. Kaashoek, H. Balakrishnan, "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, 2001. [PDF]
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Looking Up Data in P2P Systems
H. Balakrishnan, F. Kaashoek, D. Karger, R. Morris, I. Stoica, "Looking Up Data in P2P Systems," Communications of the ACM, V. 46, N. 2, (February 2003). [ACM]
Summary
P2P systems have attracted large following due to their manageability, flexibility, resource-aggregation capabilities, and fault-tolerance properties. One of the biggest challenges in this area of research is … Continue Reading ››Active Network Vision and Reality: Lessons from a Capsule-Based System
D. Wetherall, "Active Network Vision and Reality: Lessons from a Capsule-Based System," 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, (December 1999). [PDF]
Summary
Active networks were a radical concept of allowing untrusted sources to execute codes on network operators' hardware to allow faster and easier deployment of diverse distributed applications. Consequently, it also ran the risk … Continue Reading ››Resilient Overlay Networks
D. Andersen. H. Balakrishnan, F. Kaashoek, R. Morris, "Resilient Overly Networks," 18th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, (December 2001). [PDF]
Summary
Routing scalability in BGP comes at the cost of reduced fault-tolerance and slower fault-recovery procedures. BGP hides paths due to policy concerns, damps routing updates to avoid route flapping, and has or uses little … Continue Reading ››On Inferring Autonomous System Relationships in the Internet
L. Gao, "On Inferring Autonomous System Relationships in the Internet," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, V. 9, N. 6, (Dec. 2001), pp. 733-745. [PDF]
Summary
Business relationships among the ASes in the Internet are kept secret, similar to any other business deals. The only thing available to outsiders are the BGP route announcements that can be … Continue Reading ››On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology
M. Faloutsos, P. Faloutsos, C. Faloutsos, "On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (September 1999). [PDF]
Summary
This paper explores the underlying regularities of the Internet structure and uses power laws to capture the properties of the AS-graph. The results presented in this paper are based on three AS-level as-complete-as-possible traces … Continue Reading ››White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity
P. Bahl, R. Chandra, T. Moscibroda, R. Murty, M. Welsh, "White Space Networking with Wi-Fi like Connectivity", ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2009). [PDF]
Summary
With the FCC opening up the unused portions of the UHF spectrum, also known as the "white spaces", researchers have set upon implementing WiFi over the newly acquired territory. … Continue Reading ››Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles
A. Balasubramanian, R. Mahajan, A. Venkataramani, B. N. Levine, J. Zahorjan, "Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles", ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2008). [PDF]
Summary
Current WiFi handoff methods, where a client remains connected to a single basestation (BS), lead to frequent disruptions in connectivity in highly mobile vehicular networks. This paper proposes ViFi, a protocol … Continue Reading ››XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding
S. Katti, H. Rahul, W. Hu, D. Katabi, M. Medard, J. Crowcroft, "XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (September 2006). [PDF]
Summary
This paper present COPE, a new forwarding architecture for wireless mesh networks that significantly improves the overall throughput by exploiting the shared nature of wireless medium using Continue Reading ››ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks
S. Biswas, R. Morris, "ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2005). [PDF]