Date	Topic	Readings	Discussion Leads	Logistics
Part 0: Foundations
T 08/25	Lecture #1 : Introduction and overview [lecture]	[R]HowToRead	Daehyeok	Fill out the survey (by 08/28, Friday)
Th 08/27	Lecture #2 : Design principles [lecture]	[R]DesignPhilosophy [O]ClarkCommentary	Daehyeok
T 09/01	Lecture #3 : End-to-end argument [lecture]	[R]EndToEnd [O]NewEndToEnd	Daehyeok
Part 1: Network Control Plane
Th 09/03	Lecture #4 : Internet routing [lecture] [discussion 1]	[R]InferAS [O]Gao01 [O]BGPstability98 [O]MITLecNote	Joon Ha
T 09/08	Lecture #5 : Software-defined networking [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]Ethane [R]OpenFlow [O]ShenkerTalk [O]Orion	Rishika Jeffrey
Th 09/10	Lecture #6 : Network virtualization [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]NVP [R]Andromeda	Diego Gaurav
Part 2: Network Data Plane
T 09/15	Lecture #7 : Router design [lecture] [discussion 1]	[R]McKeown97 [O]ASICforNetEng	Arnav
Th 09/17	Lecture #8 : Software routers [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]Click [R]RouteBricks	Sanjana Danny
T 09/22	Lecture #9 : Middleboxes [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]CoMb [R]APLOMB	Kipling Allison
Th 09/24	Lecture #10 : Programmable routers [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]RMT [R]NetCache [O]P4	Tianming Kshitij R.	Submit a proposal on Canvas (by 09/25, Friday)
Part 3: Host Networking
T 09/29	Lecture #11 : Host network stack basics [lecture] [discussion 1]	[R]UnderstandOverheads	Aananth
Th 10/01	Lecture #12 : Guest lecture: SmartNIC [lecture]	[R]AccelNet	Mario Baldi (NVIDIA)
T 10/06	Lecture #13 : Kernel-bypass networking [lecture] [discussion 1] [discussion 2]	[R]IX [R]Arrakis	Ximena Nathan
Th 10/08	Lecture #14 : RDMA [lecture] [discussion 1]	[R]RoCE at scale [R]HERD	Matthew Yiming
T 10/13	Midterm
Th 10/15	No class (Working on projects)
Part 4: Datacenter Networks
T 10/20	Lecture #15 : Datacenter Fabrics [lecture] [discussion 1]	[R]FatTree [O]VL2	Yimeng
Th 10/22	Lecture #16 : Load Balancing [lecture]	[R]CONGA [O]LetFlow	Shazer Haowei
T 10/27	Lecture #17 : Datacenter Transport [lecture]	[R]DCTCP [O]NDP	Kshitij K. Jyotsna
Th 10/29	Lecture #18 : Emerging Interconnects	[R]InfiniteHBD [O]Pond [O]IntroCXL	Bei Zhiqiang
Part 5: Networking for AI Systems
T 11/03	Lecture #19 : AI datacenter topology & fabrics	[R]HPN [O]TopoOpt	Luohe
Th 11/05	Lecture #20 : Collective communication	[R]TE-CCL [O]MSCCL++	Ron Anish
T 11/10	Lecture #21 : Transport for AI clusters (1)	[R]MetaRoCE	Margaret
Th 11/12	Lecture #22 : Transport for AI clusters (2)	[R]MRC	Si Ung
Part 6: AI for Networking
T 11/17	Lecture #23 : Learned Congestion Control	[R]Orca [O]Remy	Jane Chen
Th 11/19	Lecture #24 : Learning from the Network	[R]Fugu [R]CausalSim [O]Zoom2Net [O]Unum	Jane Chen
T 11/24	No Class (Thanksgiving)
Th 11/26	No Class (Thanksgiving)
Final
T 12/01	Project presentations
Th 12/03	Project presentations			Submit report and slides on Canvas (by 12/04, Friday)