This week's hand-outs include six papers. The first four look at network architecture, and the last two at implementing network nodes.
The Design Philoshophy of the DARPA Internet Procotols
David D. Clark, Proceedings of the 1988 SIGCOMM Symposium, pp 106-114, Stanford, CA, August 1988.
IP Next Generation Overview
Robert M. Hinden, Internet Draft, October 1994.
A Survey of Modern High-Performance Switching Techniques
Hamid Ahmadi and Wolfgand E. Denzel, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 7, No. 7, September 1989.
ATM Concepts, Architectures, and Protocols
Ronald J. Vetter
ATM Network: Goals and Challenges
B. G. Kim and P. Wang
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 1995.
An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead
David D. Clark, Van Jacobson, John Romkey, and Howard Salwen, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1989.
Experiences with a High-Speed Network Adaptor: A Software Perspective
Peter Druschel, Larry L. Peterson, and Bruce Davie, Proceedings of SIGCOMM '94, pp 2-13, London, UK, August 1994.
We are also distributing two background articles on TCP/IP, one an early paper and the other a book extract. We expect that most of you are already familiar with this material, and that it will be generally useful over the coming weeks.
The ARPA Internet Protocol
Jonathon B. Postel, Carl A. Sunshine and Danny Cohen, Computer Networks (now known as Computer Networks and ISDN Systems) Vol 5, pp261-271, North-Holland 1981.
Chapter 12: Reliable Stream Transport Service (TCP)
Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP (Volume I), Prentice Hall 1991.
Enjoy the Spring break!