| Week | Date | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | 1/10 | class canceled | |
| 1 | 1/12 | course overview | How to read a paper |
| 2 | 1/17 | End-to-End Principle | end2end-paper |
| 2 | 1/19 | A scalable, commodity data center network architecture [Balajee] |
| 3 | 1/24 | pFabric: Minimal Near-Optimal Datacenter Transport [Hamed Rezaei] |
| 3 | 1/26 | Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks [Muhammad Usama] |
| 4 | 1/31 | EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation at the Edge [Balajee] |
| 4 | 2/2 | CONGA: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing for Datacenters [Moumita Samanta] |
| 5 | 2/7 | Datacenter TCP (DCTCP) [Saumya Solanki] |
| 5 | 2/9 | Inside the Social Network’s (Datacenter) Network [Balajee] |
| 6 | 2/14 | Introduction to SDN and OpenFlow [Balajee] |
| 6 | 2/16 | BlindBox: Deep Packet Inspection over Encrypted Traffic [Xing Li] |
| 7 | 2/21 | The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch [Muhammad Usama] |
| 7 | 2/23 | PacketShader: a GPU-Accelerated Software Router [Saumya Solanki] |
| 8 | 2/28 | Raising the Bar for Using GPUs in Software Packet Processing [Hamed Rezaei] |
| 8 | 3/2 | XFabric: A Reconfigurable In-Rack Network for Rack-Scale Computers [Moumita Samanta] |
| 9 | 3/4 | Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking [Xing Li] |