DCN Lectures

Course Lectures

Note that this reading list keeps updating, please check the latest readings one week before the class!

Date	Lecture Topics	Speakers	Reading & Notes
Thu Feb 29	Course overview	Kai Chen	DCN Introduction and Course Overivew
Thu Mar 7	DCN Topologies & Architectures (I)	Defense: Jin Jiang Offense: Changbo Wu	Fattree (In-class presentation) \| PortLand \| DCell VL2 (In-class presentation) \| F10 \| BCube
Thu Mar 14	DCN Topologies & Architectures (II)	Defense: Yixiang Hu Offense: Yansong Wang Defense: Yansong Wang Offense: Yixiang Hu	Helios (In-class presentation) \| c-Through \| RotorNet OSA (In-class presentation) \| Mordia \| Sirius \| MegaSwitch Project groups formed!
Thu Mar 21	DCN Topologies & Architectures (III)	Defense: Ga Wang Offense: Qiang Tang Defense: Qiang Tang Offense: Ga Wang	TPU-v4 (In-class presentation) \| Jupiter-I \| Jupiter-II TopoOpt (In-class presentation) \| SiP-ML \| Lightwave
Thu Mar 28	DCN Transport (I)	Defence: Long Zhao Offense: Zhijiang Zhang Defence: Zhijiang Zhang Offense: Long Zhao	DCTCP/D2TCP (In-class presentation) \| ICTCP \| D3 HostCC (In-class presentation) \| Swift
Thu Apr 11	DCN Transport (II)	Defence: Ding Li Offense: Jian Gao Defence: Jian Gao Offense: Ding Li	pFabric (In-class presentation) \| PDQ PIAS (In-class presentation) \| PASE
Thu Apr 18	DCN Transport (III)	Defence: Changbo Wu Offense: Zhijiang Zhang Defence: Zhijiang Zhang Offense: Changbo Wu	DCQCN (In-class presentation) \| RDMA-at-scale Timely (In-class presentation) \| HPCC \| IRN
Thu Apr 25	DCN Transport (IV)	Defence: Long Zhao Offense: Yixiang Hu Defence: Yixiang Hu Offense: Long Zhao	MPTCP (NSDI) (In-class presentation) \| MPTCP (SIGCOMM) MP-RDMA (In-class presentation) \| ConWeave
Thu May 2	DCN Transport (V)	Defence: Jian Gao Offense: Ding Li Defence: Ding Li Offense: Jian Gao	NDP (In-class presentation) \| ExpressPass Homa (In-class presentation) \| Aeolus
Thu May 9	Guest Lectures	Prof. Shizhen Zhao (SJTU) Prof. Wenfei Wu (PKU)	Topics: Optical DCN & In-network Computing
Thu May 23	Load Balancing	Defence: Ga Wang Offense: Qiang Tang Defence: Qiang Tang Offense: Ga Wang	Hedera (In-class presentation) \| WCMP \| Duet CONGA (In-class presentation) \| Let it FLow \| Hermes \| DRILL
Thu May 30	Coflow	Defence: Yansong Wang Offense: Jin Jiang Defence: Jin Jiang Offense: Yansong Wang	Aalo (In-class presentation) \| Varys \| Baraat CODA (In-class presentation) \| Sincronia
Thu June 6	AI-centric Networking	Defence: Changbo Wu Offense: Long Zhao Defence: Long Zhao Offense: Changbo Wu	ATP (In-class presentation) \| Switch ML \| Flare MLT (In-class presentation) \| OmniReduce \| Janus
Thu June 13	Final Presentation	ALL	Project presentations for all groups!

Notes: You may find the brochure useful: Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology by Michael J. Hanson, 1990, revised 2000 Dylan McNamee.