CS2680 2-2-infra

Reading Review for Class 4

This class’s readings are (pick 1):

• One Hop Away
• Caching

Optional:

• POC

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:

B4/SWAN and this class’s readings describe different Internet infrastructure. Summarize the differences in the architectures, and discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach. How do the design principles we discussed w.r.t. Clark ’88 inform these network designs? Who benefits from each one? How might the Internet infrastructure evolve moving forward?