Notes from previous meetings of the reading group are available for the following semesters:
| 1/23/98 |
Todd Hodes We will be discussing the Service Location Protocol (SLP) and the Wide-Area Service Location Protocol (WASRV). The two main documents are:
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| 1/30/98 |
Angie Schuett We will discuss RTSP, the Real-Time Streaming Protocol. Real Networks has a comprehensive page about the protocol at http://www.real.com/rtsp/index.html This has a link to the RTSP IETF draft, which is pretty long. Instead, I suggest you read the General Overview and Frequently Asked Questions pages. |
| 2/6/98 |
Badri Badrinath
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| 2/13/98 |
Hari Balakrishnan Tim Shepard, ``A Channel Access Scheme for Large Dense Packet Radio Networks'' |
| 2/20/98 |
Venkat Padmanabhan We'll discuss the various proposals and efforts underway to incorporate differentiated services in the Internet. The relevant IETF material is available at: http://diffserv.lcs.mit.edu/ I would suggest that people just skim through the slides from the Dec 97 IETF. Much of the emphasis right now seems to be on defining the mechanisms. But it would be interesting to also consider how such mechanisms might actually be used to provide useful services to end hosts and applications. So come prepared with your ideas and suggestions! |
| 2/27/98 |
Guest Speaker: Julio Navas
from Rutgers University Julio C. Navas and Tomasz Imielinski, ``GeoCast: Geographic Addressing and Routing'' |
| 3/6/98 |
Andrew Swan Satish Kumar et al., ``The MASC/BGMP Architecture for Inter-domain Multicast Routing'' |
| 3/20/98 |
Adam Costello Christos Papadopoulos, ``An Error Control Scheme for Large-Scle Multicast Applications'' |
| 4/3/98 |
Adam Costello Further discussion of subcast. From machines in the Berkeley CS department that mount /home/tomorrow/b, the paper is available here. |
| 4/17/98 |
Tom Henderson We'll discuss recent trends in supporting IP in optical networks, and the associated tradeoffs:
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| 4/24/98 |
Steve McCanne Hugh Holbrook and David Cheriton, ``EXPRESS Multicast: Making Multicast Economically Viable'' Slides are available from Holbrook's Express Multicast web p age |
| 5/1/98 |
Discussion led by
Mark Stemm Srini Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy Katz, ``Benefits of Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP'' Please consider the paper as draft-quality and don't redistribute it to anyone. The basic idea is that a future version of HTTP will support negotiation of web objects. Using this mechanism, clients can request smaller versions of web documents to reduce download times, and servers can proactively serve out smaller versions of web documents to reduce bandwidth requirements, leading to a greater throughput under periods of high load. In the paper, we look at how significant these benefits can be. |
| 5/15/98 |
Discussion led by Rainer Ludwig Hari Balakrishnan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, and Randy H. Katz, ``A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links.'' |