Resources

Tools

• Mininet: prototyping emulator for SDN
• iPerf: network bandwidth measurement
• Wireshark: packet capture and analysis tool
• tcpdump: packet capture tool
• Scapy: packet manipulator for Linux and Python
• ns-3: network simulator

Datasets

• Internet Topology Zoo: collection of network topologies
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection: collection of various topologies, including Internet and communication networks

Paper reading and writing

• “How to Read a Paper”, S. Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2007
• “How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper”, Roy Levin and David D. Redell, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 1983

Conferences

Core networking

• ACM SIGCOMM
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
• ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
• USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)

Security and dependability

• Internet Society Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
• USENIX Security Symposium (Security)
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
• IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)

Systems

• USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)

Wireless and mobile

• ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
• ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)

SDN

• ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
• IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)