Lectures and Syllabus -

• Lecture 1 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Aug 26, 2008) - class introduction
• Lecture 2 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Sep 2, 2008) - networking background for lab exercises.
• Lecture 3 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Sep 9, 2008) - Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions (lecture given by Young-Jin Kim)
• Lecture 4 (PDF) (6-up PDF) (Sep 16, 2008) - more on class project (worm finger printing, DHCP client, SA/XSA strengthening in OpenSSL, Bistro client in Firefox), patching source code

• Lecture 1 (Aug 26, 2008) - Class introduction.
• Lecture 2 (Sep 2, 2008) - Networking background for lab exercises.
• Lecture 3 (Sep 9, 2008) - Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions.
• (Sep 12, 2008) - Last day to register or drop the class.
• (Sep 13, 2008) - Lab exercise 1 starts.
• Lecture 4 (Sep 16, 2008) - More on class project (worm finger printing, DHCP client, SA/XSA strengthening in OpenSSL, Bistro client in Firefox), plus patching source code.
• (Sep 17, 2008) - Presentation topic selection is due. Please remember that your primary reference must be approved by the instructor at least one week before your talk.
• Lecture 5 (Sep 23, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Jon Stinzel <stinzel@usc.edu>
    • PON for First Mile Broadband Access (PDF)
• Lecture 6 (Sep 30, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Tarun Ramani <tramani@usc.edu>
    • Asynchronous Group Mutual exclusion - The Congenial Talking Philosophers Problem. (PDF)
  • Jin Hyoung Lee <jinhyoul@usc.edu>
    • Energy Aware Routing for Low Energy Ad Hoc Sensor Networks. (PDF)
• (Oct 4, 2008) - Lab exercise 1 due.
• (Oct 5, 2008) - Lab exercise 2 starts.
• Lecture 7 (Oct 7, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Siddhesh Dindorkar <dindorka@usc.edu>
    • Congestion Control for Real Time Streaming. (PDF)
  • Rahul Bankhele <bankhele@usc.edu>
    • pNFS (Parallel NFS) High Performance File System. (PDF)
• Lecture 8 (Oct 14, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Jui-Hung Chang <juihungc@usc.edu>
    • Ad Hoc Routing Protocols. (PDF)
  • Nitin Bhatt <nbhatt@usc.edu>
    • Analysis and Evaluation of the TCP/IP Protocol Stack of LINUX. (PDF)
• (Oct 19, 2008) - Lab exercise 2 due.
• (Oct 20, 2008) - Lab exercise 3 starts.
• Lecture 9 (Oct 21, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Vimarsh Puneet <vpuneet@usc.edu>
    • Honeypots for Distributed Denial-of-service Attacks. (PDF)
  • Wah Sun Ho <wahsunho@usc.edu>
    • The Great Firewall of China. (PDF)
• (Oct 22, 2008) - Project selection due.
• Lecture 10 (Oct 28, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Venkatram Tummala <vtummala@usc.edu>
    • Packet Vaccine. (PDF)
  • Muhammad Khan <muhammok@usc.edu>
    • T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. (PDF)
• Lecture 11 (Nov 4, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Shashank Mittal <shashanm@usc.edu>
    • Eliminating BGP Oscillations Caused by Policy Conflicts. (PDF)
  • Karan Parikh <knparikh@usc.edu>
    • A 64-bit, Shared Disk File System for Linux. (PDF)
• (Nov 5, 2008) - Project design document due.
• (Nov 10, 2008) - Lab exercise 3 due.
• Lecture 12 (Nov 11, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Vineet Kejriwal <vkejriwa@usc.edu>
    • Monitoring and Early warning for Internet Worms. (PDF)
  • Shwetha Bhat <shwethab@usc.edu>
    • "I'll Be Back" Capability in OSPF. (PDF)
• Lecture 13 (Thursday, Nov 13, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Utku Kir <ukir@usc.edu>
    • Providing Support for Multimedia Oriented Applications under Real-time and Embedded Linux Kernels. (PDF)
  • Abdul Qadeer <aqadeer@usc.edu>
    • TxLinux: Using and Managing Hardware Transactional Memory in the Operating System. (PDF)
• Lecture 14 (Nov 18, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Avinash Patlolla <patlolla@usc.edu>
    • Improving IDS/IPS using High Throughput String Matching Architecture. (PDF)
  • Vishal Khule <khule@usc.edu>
    • Anonymous Routing In Overlay Peer-to-Peer Networks. (PDF)
• Lecture 15 (Thursday, Nov 20, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Muhammad Zohaib <zohaib@usc.edu>
    • Medium Access Control With Coordinated Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF)
• Lecture 16 (Nov 25, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Shu-Fen Lin <shufenli@usc.edu>
    • One More Bit Is Enough: VCP. (PDF)
  • Hari Prasad Ramadasu <ramadasu@usc.edu>
    • Protecting Browsers from DNS Rebinding Attacks. (PDF)
• (Nov 27, 2008) - Thanksgiving holiday.
• Lecture 17 (Dec 2, 2008) - Students presentations.
  • Shyamsunder Rathi <srathi@usc.edu>
    • Defeating TCP/IP Stack Fingerprinting. (PDF)
  • Aalaya Kolli <kolli@usc.edu>
    • ALPi: A DDoS Defense System for High-Speed Networks. (PDF)
• (Dec 10-11, 2008) - Project demo.
• (Dec 14, 2008) - Project report due.

• Class introduction (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• Networking background for lab exercises (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• Cisco routers, Zebra toolkit and lab instructions (PDF)
• More on class project (worm finger printing, DHCP client, SA/XSA strengthening in OpenSSL, Bistro client in Firefox), plus patching source code. (PDF) (6-up PDF)
• Scalable upload (Bistro) (PDF) (6-up PDF)