References for Networking Research

• Networking
  • J. F. Kurose and W. R. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet.
  • L.L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, Computer Networks: A System Approach.
  • Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Computer Networks
  • Douglas E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets
  • D. Bertsekas & R. Gallager, Data Networks.
  • S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking.
  • J. Walrand & P. Varaiya, High-Performance Communication Networks.
  • TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview (IBM Redbook)
  
  
• Routing
  • Sam Halabi & Danny McPherson, Internet Routing Architectures.
  • Christian Huitema, Routing in the Internet.
  • Radia Pearlman, Interconnections: Bridges and Routers.
  • John T. Moy, OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol.
  • Jim Stewart, BGP4.

Research Papers

• Introduction
  • [3ComWHITE01]    3Com, "Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know," White Paper, May 2001.
  • [CiscoIP]    Cisco, "Internet Protocols," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoRouting]    Cisco, "Routing Basics," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoIntroInternet]    Cisco, "Introduction to Internet," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [RFC1180]    T. Socolofsky and C. Kale, "A TCP/IP Tutorial," Jan 1991.
  
  
• Intra-Doman Routing
  • [RFC1058]    C. Hedrick, "Routing Information Protocol," Jun 1988.
  • [RFC2328]    J. Moy, "OSPF Version 2," Apr 1998.
  • [RFC1723]    G. Malkin, "RIP Version 2: Carrying Additional Information," Nov 1994.
  • [CiscoOSPF]    Cisco, "Open Shortest Path First," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoRIP]    Cisco, "Routing Information Protocol," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoIGRP]    Cisco, "Interior Gateway Routing Protocol," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoEIGRP]    Cisco, "Enhanced IGRP," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [GarciaTON93]    J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Loop-Free Routing Using Diffusing Computations," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, February 1993.
  • [AlbrightsonINTEROP94]    Bob Albrightson, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Joanne Boyle, "EIGRP: A Fast Routing Protocol Based On Distance Vectors", Interop 1994.
  
  
• Inter-Doman Routing
  • [RFC1771]    Y. Rekhter and T. Li, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)," Mar 1995.
  • [RFC1772]    Y. Rekhter and P. Gross, "Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet," Mar 1995.
  • [CiscoBGP]    Cisco, "Border Gateway Protocol," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [CiscoBGPCASES]    Cisco, "BGP Case Studies and Tutorial".
  • [Labovitz:SIGCOMM97]    Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, "Internet Routing Instability," SIGCOMM 1997.
  • [Griffin:SIGCOMM99]    Timothy G. Griffin and Gordon Wilfong, "An Analysis of BGP Convergence Properties," SIGCOMM 1999.
  • [Labovitz:SIGCOMM00]    Craig Labovitz, Abha Ahuja, Abhijit Abose, Farnam Jahanian, "An Experimental Study of Delayed Internet Routing Convergence," SIGCOMM 2000.
  • [GaoTON01]    L. Gao, J. Rexford, "Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 2001.
  • [Bremler-BarrINFOCOM03]    Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Shemer Schwarz, "Improved BGP Convergence via Ghost Flushing," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [FeamsterSIGMETRICS03]    Nick Feamster, David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, "Measuring the Effects of Internet Path Faults on Reactive Routing," SIGMETRICS 2003.
  
  
• Multicast Routing
  • [RamalhoICST00]    M. Ramalho, "Intra- and Inter-Domain Multicast Routing Protocols: A Survey and Taxonomy," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 1st Quarter 2000.
  • [SahasrabuddheIN00]    Laxman H. Sahasrabuddhe and B. Mukherjee, "Muliticast Routing Algorithms and Protocols: A Tutorial," IEEE Network, Jan./Feb., 2000.
  • [AngelNETMAG99]    Jonathan Angel, "Multicasting," Network Magazine, January 1999.
  • [HandleyIPJ99]    Mark Handley and Jon Crowcroft, "Internet Multicast Today," Internet Protocol Journal, December 1999.
  • [HandleyIPJ02]    Ian Brown, Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley, and Brad Cain, "Internet Multicast Tomorrow," Internet Protocol Journal, December 2002.
  • [CiscoIPMulticast]    Cisco, "Internet Protocol Multicast," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [ChuJSAC02]    Yang-hua Chu, Rao, S.G., Seshan, S., and Hui Zhang, "A case for end system multicast," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, October 2002.
  • [BanerjeeSIGCOMM02]    Suman Banerjee, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Christopher Kommareddy, "Scalable Application Layer Multicast," SIGCOMM 2002.
  • [FloydTON97]    Sally Floyd, Van Jacobson, Ching-Gung Liu, Steven McCanne, Lixia Zhang, "A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997.
  • [McCanneSIGCOMM96]    S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, and M. Vetterli, "Receiver-driven Layered Multicast," SIGCOMM 1996.
  
  
• MPLS and Traffic Engineering
  • [TelliumMPLS]    Tellium, "Multiprotocol Label Switching", Tutorial.
  • [NortelMPLS]    Nortel, "MPLS: An Introduction to Multiprotocol Label Switching," White Paper.
  • [CiscoMPLS]    Cisco, "MPLS/Tag Switching," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  • [RFC3031]    E. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture," Jan 2001.
  • [DataConSIGNALING]    Data Connection, "MPLS Traffic Engineering: A Choice of Signaling Protocols", White Paper.
  • [AwducheICM99]    Awduche, D.O., "MPLS and traffic engineering in IP networks," IEEE Communication Magazine, Dec 1999.
  • {RFC3272]    D. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, and X. Xiao, "Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering," May 2002.
  • [FortzICM02]    B. Fortz, J. Rexford, and M. Thorup, "Traffic engineering with traditional IP routing protocols," IEEE Communication Magazine, Oct 2002.
  • [SridharanINFOCOM03]    Ashwin Sridharan, Roch Guerin, and Christophe Diot, "Achieving Near-Optimal Traffic Engineering Solutions for Current OSPF/IS-IS Networks," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [IyerINFOCOM2003]    Sundar Iyer, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Nina Taft, and Christophe Diot, "An approach to alleviate link overload as observed on an IP backbone," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [ApplegateINFOCOM03]    David Applegate, and Mikkel Thorup, "Load optimal MPLS routing with N+M labels," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [ApplegateSIGCOMM03]    David Applegate, Edith Cohen, "Making Intra-Domain Routing Robust to Changing and Uncertain Traffic Demands: Understanding Fundamental Tradeoffs," SIGCOMM 2003.
  
  
• Failure Resiliency
  • [DATACON-MPLS-RESTORE]    Data Connection, "Protection and Restoration in MPLS Networks," White Paper.
  • [ShaikhINFOCOM 2002]    Aman Shaikh, Rohit Dube and Anujan Varma, "Avoiding Instability during Graceful Shutdown of OSPF," INFOCOM 2002.
  • [KarINFOCOM 2002]    K. Kar, M. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, "Routing Restorable Bandwidth Guaranteed Connections Using Maximum 2-route Flows," INFOCOM 2002.
  • [IyerINFOCOM2003]    Sundar Iyer, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Nina Taft, and Christophe Diot, "An approach to alleviate link overload as observed on an IP backbone," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [NelakuditiIWQOS03]    Srihari Nelakuditi, Sanghwan Lee, Yinzhe Yu, and Zhi-Li Zhang, "Failure Insensitive Routing for Ensuring Service Availability," IWQoS 2003.
  • [AlaettinogluDRAFT]    C. Alaettinoglu, V. Jacobson, H. Yu, "Towards Milli-Second ICP Convergence," Internet Draft, draft-alaettinoglu-isis-convergence-00.txt, November 2000.
  • [AlaettinogluQWEST]    C. Alaettinoglu, Stephen Casner, "Detailed Analysis of ISIS Routing Protocol on the Qwest Backbone: A recipe for subsecond ISIS convergence".
  • [AlaettinogluIETF02]    C. Alaettinoglu, Alex Zinin, "IGP Fast Reroute".
  • [PeiDSN03]    Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang, "A Study of Packet Delivery Performance during Routing Convergence," IEEE DSN 2003.
  • [ThorupFAIL01]    Mikkel Thorup, "Fortifying OSPF/IS-IS against link-failure".
  • [NucciITC03]    Antonio Nucci, Bianca Schroeder, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Nina Taft, Christophe Diot, "IGP Link Weight Assignment for Transient Link Failures", ITC 18, 2003.
  • [IannacconeIMW02]    Gianluca Iannaccone, Chen-nee Chuah, Richard Mortier, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot, "Analysis of link failures in an IP backbone", IMW 2002.
  • [GoyalICC03]    M. Goyal, K.K. Ramakrishnan, W. Feng, "Achieving Faster Failure Detection in OSPF Networks," ICC 2003.
  
  
• Address Lookup and Packet Classification
  • [Ruiz-SanchezIN01]    M. Ruiz-Sanchez, E. Biersack and W. Dabbous, "Survey and Taxonomy of IP Address Lookup Algorithms," IEEE Network, Mar 2001
  • [GuptaIN01]    P. Gupta and N. McKeown, "Algorithms for packet classification", IEEE Network, Mar 2001.
  • [PartridgeTON98]    Craig Partridge et al, "A 50-Gb/s IP router," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 1998.
  • [BasuINFOCOM2003]    Anindya Basu, and Girija Narlikar, "Fast Incremental Updates for Pipelined Forwarding Engines," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [DharmapurikarSIGCOMM03]    Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy and David E. Taylor, "Longest Prefix Matching using Bloom Filters," SIGCOMM 2003.
  
  
• TCP and Congestion Control
  • [RFC2581]    M. Allman, V. Paxson, and W. Stevens, "TCP Congestion Control," April 1999.
  • [Jacobson88]    V. Jacobson, "Congestion Avoidance and Control," SIGCOMM 1988.
  • [FloydICM01]    S. Floyd, "A Report on Recent Developments in TCP Congestion Control," IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2001.
  • [ClarkICM89]    David D. Clark, Van Jacobson, John Romkey, and Howard Salwen, "An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead," IEEE Communications Magazine, June 1989
  • [RFC3448]    Handley, M., Floyd, S., Pahdye, J., and Widmer, J., "TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification".
  • [FloydSIGCOMM00]    Sally Floyd, Mark Handley , Jitendra Padhye, Joerg Widmer, "Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications," SIGCOMM 2000.
  • [KatabiSIGCOMM02]    Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, and Charlie Rohrs, "Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks," SIGCOMM 2002.
  • [RyuICST03]    Seungwan Ryu, Christopher Rump, and Chunming Qiao, "Advances in Internet Congestion Control", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Third Quarter 2003.
  
  
• Host Mobility
  • [GhostCROSSROADS01]    Debalina Ghosh, "Mobile IP," ACM Crossroads, 2001.
  • [PerkinsICM97]    C. Perkins, "Mobile IP," IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1997.
  • [PerkinsIIC98]    C. Perkins, "Mobile Networking through Mobile IP," IEEE Internet Computing, January/February 1998.
  • [SnoerenMOBICOM2000]    Alex C. Snoeren and Hari Balakrishnan, "An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility," MOBICOM 2000.
  • [ZandyMOBICOM02]    Victor C. Zandy and Barton P. Miller, "Reliable Network Connections," MOBICOM 2002.
  • [ReinboldICST03]    Pierre Reinbold, and Olivier Bonaventure, "IP Micro-mobility Protocols," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Third Quarter 2003.
  
  
• TCP over Wireless
  • [PentikousisICST00]    K. Pentikousis, "TCP in Wired-Cum-Wireless Environments," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 4th Quarter 2000.
  • [BalakrishnanTON97]    H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S.Seshan and R. Katz, "A Comparision of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Dec. 1997.
  • [WangMOBIHOC02]    Feng Wang and Yongguang Zhang, "Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Out-of-Order Detection and Response," MOBIHOC 2002.
  • [ChakravortyINFOCOM03]    Rajiv Chakravorty, Sachin Katti, Ian Pratt, and Jon Crowcroft, "Flow Aggregation for Enhanced TCP over Wide Area Wireless," INFOCOM 2003.
  
  
• Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks
  • [RoyerIPCM99]    E. Royer and C.-K. Toh, "A review of current routing protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks," IEEE Personal Communications, Apr 1999.
  • [RamanathanICM02]    Ram Ramanathan and Jason Redi, "A Brief Overview of Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges and Directions," IEEE Communications Magazine, 2002.
  • [KatzICM94]    Randy H. Katz, "Adaptation and Mobility in Wireless Information Systems," IEEE Communications Magazine, 1994.
  • [ValeraINFOCOM03]    Alvin Valera, Winston Seah, and S.V. Rao, "Cooperative Packet Caching and Shortest Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [BaiINFOCOM03]    Fan Bai, Narayanan Sadagopan, and Ahmed Helmy, "IMPORTANT: A framework to systematically analyze the Impact of Mobility on Performance of RouTing protocols for Adhoc NeTworks," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [SrinivasMOBICOM03]    Anand Srinivas and Eytan Modiano, "Minimum Energy Disjoint Path Routing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks," MOBICOM 2003.
  • [CoutoMOBICOM03]    Douglas De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, John Bicket, and Robert Morris, "A High-Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing," MOBICOM 2003.
  • [CoutoHOTNETS02]    Douglas S. J. De Couto, Daniel Aguayo, Benjamin A. Chambers, and Robert Morris, "Performance of Multihop Wireless Networks: Shortest Path is Not Enough," HotNets-I, October 2002.
  • [RaoMOBICOM03]    Ananth Rao, Christos Papadimitriou, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, "Geographic Routing without Location Information," MOBICOM 2003.
  • [SterbenzWISE02]    James P. G. Sterbenz, Rajesh Krishnan, Regina Rosales Hain, Alden W. Jackson, David Levin, Ram Ramanathan, and John Zao, "Survivable Mobile Wireless Networks: Issues, Challenges, and Research Directions," ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), September 2002.
  • [OLSR]    Optimized Link State Routing Protocol.
  • [BeyerHIIP96]    Dave Beyer, Mark D. Vestrich and JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "The Rooftop Community Network: Free, high-speed network access for communities," Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, October 1996. slides
  • [SchollmeierIWP2P]    Rudiger Schollmeier and Ingo Gruber, "Routing in Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. A Comparison," International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2002.
  • [PearlmanJSAC99]    M. R. Pearlman and Z. J. Haas, "Determining the Optimal Configuration for the Zone Routing Protocol, " IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, vol. 17, no. 8, p. 1395-1414, August 1999
  
  
• Peer to Peer Networks
  • [BalakrishnanCACM03]    Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, Ion Stoica, "Looking up data in P2P systems," Communications of the ACM, February 2003.
  • StoicaSIGCOMM01    Ion Stoica, Rober Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan, "Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications," SIGCOMM 2001.
  • [Zhou:TECHREPORT01]    B. Zhou, D. A. Joseph, J. Kubiatowicz, "Tapestry: a fault tolerant wide area network infrastructure," Sigcomm 2001 poster and UC Berkeley Tech. Report UCB/CSD-01-1141.
  • [ZhangFTDCS03]    Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu and Peter Druschel, "Optimizing Routing in Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay Networks Using Routing Table Redundancy," International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2003), May 2003.
  • [SripanidkulchaiINFOCOM03]    Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Bruce Maggs, Hui Zhang, "Efficient Content Location Using Interest-Based Locality in Peer-to-Peer Systems," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [GanesanINFOCOM03]    Prasanna Ganesan, Qixiang Sun, Hector Garcia-Molina, "YAPPERS: A Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service over Arbitrary Topology," INFOCOM 2003.
  • [ChawatheSIGCOMM03]    Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lee Breslau, and Scott Shenker, "Making Gnutella-like P2P Systems Scalable," SIGCOMM 2003.
  • [LindemannMADNET03]    A. Klemm, C. Lindemann, and O. P. Waldhorst, "A Special Purpose Peer-to-Peer File Sharing System for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", MADNET 2003.
  • [MehraINFOCOM03]    P. Mehra, A. Zakhor, and C. D. Vleeschouwer, "Receiver-Driven Bandwidth Sharing for TCP," INFOCOM 2003.
  • BitTorrent
  • [SchollmeierIWP2P]    Rudiger Schollmeier and Ingo Gruber, "Routing in Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. A Comparison," International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2002.
  
  
• Overlay Networks
  • [AndersonSOSP01]    D. G. Andersen, H. Balakrishnan, M. Kaashoek, and R. Morris, "Resilient Overlay Networks," ACM SOSP 2001.
  • [StoicaSIGCOMM02]    Ion Stoica, Daniel Adkins, Shelley Zhuang, Scott Shenker, Sonesh Surana, "Internet Indirection Infrastructure," SIGCOMM 2002.
  • [PetersonHOTNETS02]    Larry Peterson, Tom Anderson, David Culler, and Timothy Roscoe, "A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet," HotNets-I, Oct 2002.
  • [SubramanianHOTNETS02]    Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ion Stoica, Hari Balakrishnan, and Randy Katz, "OverQoS: Offering QoS using Overlays," HotNets-I, Oct 2002.
  • [NakaoSIGCOMM03]    Akihiro Nakao, Larry Peterson, and Andy Bavier, "A routing underlay for overlay networks," SIGCOMM 2003.
  • [KosticSOSP03]    Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie Albrech, and Amin Vahdat, "Bullet: High Bandwidth Data Dissemination Using an Overlay Mesh," SOSP 2003.
  • [AndersonIMC03]    D. G. Andersen, A. C. Snoeren, and H. Balakrishnan, "Best-Path vs Multi-Path Overlay Routing," IMC 2003.
  
  
• Quality of Service
  • [ZhangIN93]    L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, and D. Zappala, "RSVP: A New Resource Reservation Protocol," IEEE Network, Sep 1993.
  • [CiscoRSVP]    Cisco, "Resource Reservation Protocol," Internetworking Technology Handbook.
  
  
• Inter-Planetory Internet
  
  • [AkyildizCNJ03]    Ian F. Akyildiz, Ozgur Akan, Chao Chen, Jian Fang, and Weilian Su, "InterPlaNetary Internet: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges".
  • [WarthmanDTN03]    Forrest Warthman, "Delay-Tolerant Networks: A Tutorial".
  • Inter-Planetory Internet Project
  
  
• Ubiquitous, Pervasive, Nomadic Computing
  
  • [BorrielloICM02]    Gaetano Borriello, "Key Challenges in Communication for Ubiquitous Computing," IEEE Communications Magazine, 2002.
  • [KleinrockCCR95]    L. Kleinrock, "Nomadic Computing - An Opportunity," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 1995.
  • [JohanssonIN01]    P. Johansson, M. Kazantidis, R. Kapoor, and M. Gerla, "Bluetooth: An Enabler for Personal Area Networking", IEEE Network, Sept/Oct 2001.
  
  
• Architectural Issues
  • [AndersonHOTNETS02]    Tom Anderson, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, and David Wetherall, "Design Guidelines for Robust Internet Protocols," HotNets-I, Oct 2002.
  
  

Network Simulators and Related Links

• Simulators
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Conferences and Journals on Networking

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