EPL 602: Foundations of Internet Technologies

Date

Topics

Readings

Introduction

• "Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web." J. Hendler, N. Shadblot, W. Hall, T. Berners-Lee, D. Weitzner, CACM, July 2008, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp 60-69.
• "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Wired Magazine. August 2010.
• T.V. Raman, Google Research. "The Web the Way You Want It." Colloquium at the U. of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series. April 2007.
• 20 things learned about Browsers and the Web. A nice introductory presentation of Web technologies by Google's Chrome Group.

System and Networking Aspects of the World-Wide Web

27/1
3/2

Web Architecture. Web clients, Proxies, Servers

• "Designing Distributed Applications with Mobile Code Paradigms," A. Carzaniga, G.P. Picco and G. Vigna, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference in Software Engineering, 1997.
• "End-to-end Arguments in System Design," J. Saltzer, D. Reed, D. Clark, ACM TOCS, Vol. 2, No. 4, Nov. 1984, pp 277-288.
• "Rethinking the design of the Internet: the end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world," M. Blumenthal, D. Clark, ACM TOIT, Vol. 1, No. 1, Aug. 2001, 70-109.
• Chapters 2-4, Web Protocols and Practice, Krishnamurthy and Rexford.

10/2
17/2

• "Protocols Underlying HTTP." Chapter 5, Web Protocols and Practice, Krishnamurthy and Rexford.
• "How Internet Infrastructure Works."
• TCP/IP Tutorial, RFC 1180
• Chapter 1, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Peterson & Davie.
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets, Brian Hall
• "Navigating Content Networks." Chapter 5, Content Networking, Hofmann & Beaumont.

Web Content Transport

24/2
3/3

HTTP Protocol Design

• "HTTP" Chapter 6, 7. Web Protocols and Practice, Krishnamurthy and Rexford.
• RFC1945
• RFC 2616

• "Caching Techniques for Web Content" Chapter 3, Content Networking, Hofmann & Beaumont.
• "Web Caching" Chapter 11, Web Protocols and Practice, Krishnamurthy and Rexford.
• Chapters 4,15, HTTP Developer's Handbook, C. Shiflett.
• "Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy," I. Cooper et al, RFC3040, IETF, Jan. 2001.

Web Intermediaries & Middleware

• "Intermediary Infrastructures for the World-Wide Web." M. D. Dikaiakos. Computer Networks, Volume 45, Issue 4, June 2004, pp. 421-447, Elsevier.
• RFC 3768: Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware. IETF 2000.

31/3

Web Characterization

• "Web Workload Characterization" Chapters 9 and 10, Web Protocols and Practice, Krishnamurthy and Rexford.

Overlay Networks

7/4

• "Peer-to-Peer Systems," R. Rodriguez and P. Druschel, CACM, vol. 53, No. 10, Oct. 2010.
• "Peer-to-Peer Computing," D. Milojicic et al, HP Technical Report, July 2003.

Java Basics

• Java_Overview

Socket Programming in Java

• Java_Sockets

1st Programming Exercise

• Creating a simple Web crawler

Threads

• Multithreading in Java

Brief Introduction to Apache Web Server

• Apache_Web_Server

Introduction to PlanetLab

• PlanetLab in General
• Getting Started with PlanetLab