Overview
The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to networking research.
The first half of the course provides an introduction to the Internet and the basic methodologies of computer systems performance evaluation, including a detailed discussion of Internet protocols and applications, wired/wireless networking technologies, and networking research paradigms.
The second half of the course delves more deeply into network performance research, through the presentation and discussion of recent papers from the networking research literature.
By the end of the course, students should be well-prepared to do high-quality research in networking, distributed systems, computer systems performance evaluation, or closely-related areas.
Here is the approved course information sheet for CPSC 641, along with its official calendar entry.
Lectures
CPSC 641 lectures take place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30am.
Announcements
- April 12, 2022: Last day of class! Here is the class photo that we took today.
- April 5, 2022: A reminder that we will be meeting in person for our last day of class (Tuesday April 12) in ST 125. Also a reminder that course projects are due by 4:00pm on Thursday April 14. Emailed PDF is fine.
- March 17, 2022: Course project deadline adjusted to be Thursday April 14 (4:00pm).
- March 1, 2022: Schedule finalized now for in-class presentations from students.
- February 22, 2022: A reminder that project proposals are due on March 1, along with paper choices for in-class presentations.
- January 14, 2022: U of C has extended online learning mode until February 19. We might return to in-person lectures in ST 125 after the Reading Week break.
- January 11, 2022: First day of class. Very exciting! Assignment 1 (due January 27) and Assignment 2 (due February 17) are ready now as well. Have fun!
- January 10, 2022: General welcome message sent to students on CPSC 641 class list in D2L.
- January 4, 2022: First class is on Tuesday, January 11 at 9:30am. See you there! We will be starting the semester on Zoom (see details provided in D2L), with the hope of returning to in-person lectures in ST 125 in February.
- December 13, 2021: Initial version of course Web site launched.
