Reading Review for Class 14
This class’s readings are:
Optional:
Your review should include both a summary of these papers, which
discusses
- the problem the paper addresses
- the paper’s solution
- the evidence the paper provides that the solution was
correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the
papers discuss.
Your review should also discuss, after the summary:
- whether the problem the paper solved is an important
one
- whether the solution was a good one
- whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
- what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper
(if any) you found hard to understand.
You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The
remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a
page (~500 words) long.
Finally, for this week’s papers, please reflect on the following
questions:
- The dSDN paper’s authors argue that their approach is simpler than
what they call “cSDN”. Does this paper act as evidence that the SDN
vision (as described in the “Road to SDN” paper, as well as the talk)
was wrong? What features (if any) does dSDN retain from cSDN, and what
features does it remove?
- Describe examples of networks in which dSDN and cSDN, respectively,
are the best design choices, or argue that one is always better than the
other.