Weekly outline

  • General

  • TEACHER: LAURA RICCI


    SUPPORT: EMANUELE CARLINI

    • FINAL PROJECT

    • ASSIGNMENTS

    • TEXT OF THE EXAMS

    • MASTER AND BACHELOR THESIS

    • Teaching Material:


      Slide of the lessons: this material covers all the topic presented in the course


      Texts: none required, but relevant texts include:

      • Sasu Takoma, Overlay Networks, Toward Information Networking, 2010 
      • Maarten Van Steen, Graph Theory and Complex Networks,  2010 
      • Korzun, Dmitry, Gurtov, Andrei, Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems: Fundamentals of Hierarchical Organization, Routing, Scaling, and Security 
      • R. Steinmetz, K.Wehrle, Peer to Peer Systems and Applications,  LNCS 3485, Springer Verlag, 2005 
      • Yu-Kwong Ricky Kwok,Peer to Peer Computing, Applications, Architecture, Protocols and Challanges, CRC Press, 2012 
      • Q.Hieu Vu, M.Lupu, B.Chin Ooi, Peer to Peer Computing, Principles and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2010 
      • Buford, Yu, Lua, P2P Networking and Applications, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

      • Lecture Notes


        25 september

        • Introduction

      • 30 September

        • Unstrucured overlays

      • 2 October

        • Hybrid Systems, Self Organization

      • 7 October

        • DHT: An Introduction

      • 9 October

        • Chord: a Distributed Hash Table

      • 14 October

        • Chord: a Distributed Hahs Table

      • 21 October

        • Markov Chains: Modelling Chord Routing

      • 23 october

        • Chord: Handling churn

      • 28 October

        • Prefix based DHT: Kademlia

      • 11 November

        • Random Graph: Complex Network Analysis

      • 13 November

        • Epidemic algorithms: Gossip (guest lecture Emanuele Carlini)

      • 18 November

        • Peersim: an Introduction (guest lecture Emanuele Carlini)

        • Lab: Anti Entropy in Peersim

      • 20 November

        • Watts and Strogatz and Navigability: Small World

      • 23 November

        • Applications of Complex Network Analysis to P2P systems

      • 25 November

        • Topology Management and Graph Processing (Guest Lecture Emanule Carlini)

      • 27 November

        • Lab on Peersim (lecture of Emanuele Cralini)

      • 2 December

        • Case Study: BitTorrent

      • 4 December

        • Scale Free Networks: Preferential Attachment

      • 9 December

        • Case Study: Bitcoin

      • 11 December

        • BGP - Guest Lecture Alessandro Improta

      • 15 December

        • Case Study: Bitcoin (2)