Course Lecture Plan

Date	Lectures Topics	Speakers & Notes	Reading
Tu 3/28	Class overview, Internet measurement roadmap, project assignment	Yan [ppt]	Reverse-Engineering the Internet, Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Thomas Anderson, HotNets 2003 Ch. 2 Internet Architecture
Th 3/30	Large-scale Internet and security measurement projects and systematic modeling	Yan [ppt]	Ch 10 and
Tu 4/4	Analytical background: probability and its special issues in the Internet	Zhichun Li [ppt]	Ch. 3.2
Th 4/6	Analytical background: statistics and its special issues in the Internet	Yan Gao [ppt]	Ch. 3.3 and Ch 3.6
Tu 4/11	Analytical background: graphs and Internet topology: state of the art	Yao Zhao [ppt]	Ch. 3.4, and Ch 5.4
Th 4/13	Internet infrastructure: active and passive measurements and tools	Prasad Narayana [ppt]	Ch 5.2 - 5.3
Tu 4/18	Application measurement: Web	Dave Raffensperger [ppt]	Ch. 7.3
Th 4/20	Application measurement: P2P	Mike Smathers [ppt]	Ch. 7.4
M 4/24	Network failure measurements	Joint class with CS395/495 of Prof. Kuzmanovic Defense: Mike Smathers & Usman Jafarey	PlanetSeer: Internet Path Failure Monitoring and Characterization in Wide-Area Services, by M. Zhang et al.
Th 4/27	Application measurement: DNS	Guest Lecture by John Kristoff of UltraDNS	Ch. 7.2
Tu 5/2	Midterm project presentation
Th 5/4	Application measurement: Games	Usman Jafarey [ppt]	Ch. 7.5
Tu 5/9	Collaborated attacks	Defense: Zhichun Li [ppt] Offense: Yan Chen [ppt]	Collaborating Against Common Enemies, Sachin Katti, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Dina Katabi, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2005.
Th 5/11	Darknet	Defense: Dave Raffensperger [ppt] (courtesy of Michael Bailey @ U Michigan) Offense: Yao Zhao	Data Reduction for the Scalable Automated Analysis of Distributed Darknet Traffic, Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Niels Provos, Karl Rosaen, and David Watson, Proc. of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2005. Ref: Scalability, Fidelity and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm, In proc. of SOSP 2005. [slides from U Texas]
Tu 5/16	Botnet	Defense: Usman Jafarey [ppt] Offense: Yan Chen [ppt]	The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson in Proc. of Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI), 2005. [talk by the authors] Ref: An Inside Look at Botnets, Paul Barford and Vinod Yegneswaran, in Series: Advances in Information Security, Springer, 2006.
Th 5/18	Spyware	Defense: Yao Zhao [ppt] Offense: Prasad Narayana	A Crawler-based Study of Spyware in the Web, Alex Moshchuk , Tanya Bragin, Steven D. Gribble, Henry Levy, NDSS 2006. [talk by the authors]
M 5/22	DoS attacks	Joint class with CS395/495 of Prof. Kuzmanovic Offense: David Raffensperger	A DoS-limiting Network Architecture, by X. Yang et al., in ACM SIGCOMM 2005
Th 5/25	Web vulnerability	Defense: Zhichun Li [ppt] Offense: Mike Smathers [ppt]	Automated Web Patrol with Strider HoneyMonkeys: Finding Web Sites That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities, Y. Wang etc., NDSS 2006
Tu 5/30	Wrap-up: Symantec Internet Threat Report (Mar. 2006)
Th 6/1	Final project presentation

Notes:

1. You may find the brochure (suggested by Fabián E. Bustamante) useful: Efficient reading of papers in Science and Technology by Michael J. Hanson, 1990, revised 2000 Dylan McNamee.