Reading Review for Class 15
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:
- Are middleboxes a violation of the end-to-end principle? Why or why
not, and does it matter?
- This paper was at the forefront of a trend now known as Network
Function Virtualization, or NFV, in which middlebox implementations were
moved from hardware to software. What advantages did this approach
provide? What challenges do you think it presented? How might those
challenges have been mitigated while preserving the advantages?