CMPSCI 791N Seminar: Peer-to-Peer and Application-Level Networking
Professors J. Kurose, B. Levine, D. Towsley
3.0 credits
W 12:20-1:50, Room 142 Computer Science Building

Overview

Over the past few years, we have seen the emergence of distributed, peer-peer application-level networks that perform functionality that has often been the responsibility of lower layers of the network protocol stack. These functions include multicasting, routing for ad hoc and overlay networks, and data storage,discovery, and retrieval (e.g., Napster, Gnutella). In this seminar we will read and discuss research papers on this emerging area of computer networking.

Students enrolled in this course will be required to

• read assigned papers, and submit (electronically) a written critical analysis of each paper before its presentation in class
• participate in class discussions on assigned readings
• make an in-class presentation of one or more papers from the reading list
• assist others ("red team") in preparing for their in-class presentation
• complete a course project.

The course prerequisites include a course on networking, a course on algorithms, and gradaute student status.

All information regarding the course will be posted on the class WWW site, http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/cs791n