Reading Review for Class 12
This class’s readings are (pick 1):
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 and BlastShield papers solve the same basic problem, and
include the word “decentralized” in their title. To what extent is the
paper you read actually decentralized? What is still central (if
anything)?
- Ask the LLM tool of your choice to explain SDN / software-defined
networking to you, or ask it to present a design of a software-defined
network. Does the design it presents suffer from the problem that dSDN /
BlastShield attempt to solve? Why or why not?