USTC COMP6103P.03 Advanced Computer Networking
Course Information
- Course Name：Advanced Computer Networking (COMP6103P.03)
- Time: 19:30 - 21:55, Thursday, 5th March 2026 - 2nd July 2026
- Venue: GT-A405, High Tech Campus
- Instructor：Junxue ZHANG (snowzjx at ustc dot edu dot cn)
- TAs:
- Wenbo LI (wenboli at mail dot ustc dot edu dot cn)
Exam and Essay Information
The final exam is expected to be held on Monday, June 22, 2026, 09:00-11:00 at G2-B302, #2 Academic Building, High Tech Campus. The exam lasts 2 hours and accounts for 60% of the final grade. It is an open-book exam, but electrical devices are not allowed.
The assignment is a topic review essay, accounting for 40% of the final grade. The essay should include at least 10 papers. Please submit the essay before the final exam by email to 2176406119@qq.com. The email subject and attachment should be named in the format Name-StudentID-essay.
Plagiarism and GenAI Policy: Plagiarism will receive a zero mark. LLM-based tools, such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, and traditional AI-assisted writing tools, such as Grammarly, may be used only to improve the presentation and clarity of your essay. They must not be used to generate any substantive content.
Syllabus
Student Presentation Schedule
| Time | Presenters | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Week 11 (May 14, 2026) | Xing Yubo, Zhou Jun, Huang Yuxin, Liu Qingyao | Let It Flow: Resilient Asymmetric Load Balancing with Flowlet Switching, NSDI 2017 |
| Week 12 (May 21, 2026) | Sui Xinyi | Coflow: A Networking Abstraction for Cluster Applications, HotNets-XI 2012 |