Colloquium

While the Internet plays an important role in our day-to-day lives, the global routing infrastructure is surprisingly fragile and the network dynamics of the Internet are not well understood.

Due to the Internet structure and routing the only way to map its topology is by having measurement presence in almost every corner of the Internet.

This tutorial will shed light on the art and the science of managing big IP networks, such as tier 1 ISPs.

The available bandwidth (avail-bw) of a network path is an important performance metric and its end-to-end estimation has recently received significant attention.

The combinatorial landscape is fraught with complexity. Computing optimal solutions to natural problems is often intractable, and understanding discrete systems can be difficult without the presence of richer structures to guide our intuition.

Intuitively, it is clear that trust or shared taste enables a community of users to be more productive, as it allows cooperative learning and avoiding unnecessary repetition of mistakes.

Despite decades of research in fault tolerance, commodity operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, continue to crash.

Imagine if computers possessed the ability of small children to observe and comprehend their dynamic environment.

"Digital divide" vs."melting pot", "great liberator" vs."social stratifier". In all of the rhetoric comparing Internet use among diverse populations, remarkably little attention has been paid to the voices of the users themselves.