Section Assignments
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We will release the Spring 2018 assignments as the semester progresses. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing or inaccurate.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| feb 5 Reg day |
feb 6 REC 1: Worse is Better First day of classes |
feb 7 LEC 1: Coping with Complexity: Enforced Modularity via Client/server Organization (slides) Reading: Book sections 1.1-1.5, and 4.1-4.3 |
feb 8 REC 2: We Did Nothing Wrong |
feb 9 TUT 1: Intro to 6.033 Communication Assigned: System critique #1 |
| feb 12 LEC 2: Naming (slides) Reading: Book sections 2.2, and 3.1 Assigned: Hands-on DNS |
feb 13 REC 3: DNS |
feb 14 LEC 3: Virtual memory (slides) Reading: Book sections 5.1, 5.3, and 5.4 |
feb 15 REC 4: UNIX Assigned: Hands-on UNIX |
feb 16 TUT 2: Consensus and Critique DUE: Hands-on DNS |
| feb 19 President's day |
feb 20 LEC 4: Bounded buffers and locks (slides) Reading: Book section 5.2 |
feb 21 LEC 5: Threads (slides) Reading: Book sections 5.5 and 5.6 |
feb 22 REC 5: UNIX |
feb 23 TUT 3: DP discussion DUE: System critique #1 Assigned: DP preliminary report |
| feb 26 LEC 6: OS structure, Virtual Machines (slides) Reading: Book section 5.8 |
feb 27 REC 6: Eraser DUE: Send team list to TA DUE: Hands-on UNIX |
feb 28 LEC 7: Performance (slides) Reading: Book sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.4 |
mar 1 REC 7: MapReduce Assigned: Hands-on MapReduce |
mar 2 TUT 4: Writing the Critiques & Intro to Collaboration Assigned: System critique #2 |
| mar 5 LEC 8: Intro to networking (slides) Reading: Book section 7.2 (book chapters 7-11 are online) |
mar 6 REC 8: The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols Assigned: Hands-on reliable transport |
mar 7 LEC 9: Routing (slides) Reading: Chapters 17-18 of the 6.02 notes DUE: Hands-on MapReduce |
mar 8 REC 9: Landmark Routing |
mar 9 TUT 5: Collaboration & Figures ADD DATE |
| mar 12 LEC 10: BGP (slides) Reading: BGP tutorial through Section 3.2 |
mar 13 REC 10: Canceled due to snow DUE: Hands-on reliable transport Assigned: Hands-on Traceroute |
mar 14 LEC 11: Transport layer (slides) Reading: Chapter 19 of the 6.02 notes Note that the 6.02 reading uses slightly different ACKs |
mar 15 REC 11: RON |
mar 16 TUT 6: Assembling the DPPR DUE: System critique #2 |
| mar 19 LEC 12: In-network resource management (slides) |
mar 20 REC 12: DCTCP DUE: Hands-on Traceroute |
mar 21 LEC 13: Overcoming the Internet's architecture with P2P Networks (slides) |
mar 22 REC 13: CDNs |
mar 23 TUT 7: No tutorial DUE: DP preliminary report |
| mar 26 Spring break |
mar 27 Spring break |
mar 28 Spring break |
mar 29 Spring break |
mar 30 Spring break |
| apr 2 LEC 14: Reliability (slides) Reading: Book sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 |
apr 3 REC 14: Distributed Storage |
apr 4 LEC 15: Transactions (Atomicity + Isolation) (slides) Reading: Book sections 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2 |
apr 5 REC 15: Canceled (prep for the quiz!) QUIZ 1: 7:30pm-9:30pm; Location |
apr 6 TUT 8: DP presentation Assigned: DP Presentation |
| apr 9 LEC 16: Atomicity via Logging (slides) Reading: Book section 9.3 |
apr 10 REC 16: LFS Assigned: Hands-on Logging |
apr 11 LEC 17: Isolation (slides) Reading: Book sections 9.4 before 9.4.1, and 9.5 |
apr 12 REC 17: Databases |
apr 13 TUT 9: No tutorial on this day |
| apr 16 Patriots day |
apr 17 Patriots day |
apr 18 LEC 18: Distributed transactions (slides) Reading: Book section 9.6 DUE: Hands-on Logging Assigned: Hands-on DB DP Presentations should be scheduled between 4/18 and 4/24 |
apr 19 REC 18: Consistency Guarantees |
apr 20 TUT 10: Analysis and Evaluation Assigned: DP Report |
| apr 23 LEC 19: Availability via Replication (slides) |
apr 24 REC 19: Raft |
apr 25 LEC 20: Intro to security (slides) Reading: Book section 11.1 DUE: Hands-on DB |
apr 26 REC 20: Canceled (prep for tutorial!) DROP DATE |
apr 27 TUT 11: Peer Review Assigned: Peer Review |
| apr 30 LEC 21: Authentication and passwords (slides) Reading: Book section 11.2 CI instructors will be holding office hours this week and next for help with the design report and peer review. |
may 1 REC 21: Why Cryptosystems Fail |
may 2 LEC 22: Secure channels (slides) Reading: Book sections 11.3, 11.4, and 11.5 |
may 3 REC 22: DNSSEC |
may 4 TUT 12: Final DP Report |
| may 7 LEC 23: Network security and DDoS attacks (slides) DUE: DP Report |
may 8 REC 23: Botnets |
may 9 LEC 24: Bitcoin (slides) |
may 10 REC 24: Memory Corruption |
may 11 TUT 13: No tutorial DUE: Peer Review |
| may 14 LEC 25: Tor (slides) |
may 15 REC 25: Meltdown |
may 16 LEC 26: Policy vs. Mechanism (slides) Reading: The Night Watch |
may 17 REC 26: Trusting Trust Last day of classes |
may 18 |
| may 21 Final exam week |
may 22 Final exam week |
may 23 QUIZ 2: 1:30pm-3:30pm, Johnson Ice Rink Final exam week |
may 24 Final exam week |
may 25 Final exam week |