Nick McKeown Balaji Prabhakar Special guest appearances: Mohammad Alizadeh

1. Spring 2012 Lecture 1 Introduction & Logistics EE384x Packet Switch Architectures Nick McKeown Balaji Prabhakar Special guest appearances: Mohammad Alizadeh

2. Goals of the class • To provide an introduction to the research and practice of packet switch design, including Internet routers and Ethernet switches. • To get some practice in the art of reading research papers. It’s a big field, and used to be a two quarter sequence (EE384x,y). EE384y is no longer offered. The new EE384x is less theoretical.

3. Logistics Lecturers Nick McKeown nickm@stanford.edu Balaji Prabhakarbalaji@stanford.edu Guest lecturers: One, maybe two experts Teaching Assistants Peyman Kazemian kazemian@stanford.edu Shuang Yang shyang@stanford.edu Web site: ee384x.stanford.edu

4. More Logistics Prerequisite EE284/CS144 or equivalent. Useful CS244, Stats 116 (or EE178, EE278), CS161 Papers URLs to all the papers are on the eeclass web page. Grading (40%) 4 Problem sets (10%) Several surprise quizzes (5%) In-class participation (45%) Final project • Intermediate project report (May 10th): 10% • Final class presentation (20%) • Final report (15%) All deadlines are hard!

5. Contact Whenever possible: su.class.ee384x • Quickest response • Someone else probably has same question • Please don’t send to class list If private: ee384x-spr0910-staff@lists.stanford.edu All extension requests must go to Nick or Balaji Office hours and discussion sessions posted on web page

6. Lectures & Papers In most lectures we will assume you have read 1-2 papers. You must read the papers in depth before class. 5% of grade is for in-class participation 10% for “surprise quizzes” So….please read the papers, be here, participate

7. Let’s agree: No laptops in class(except the one projecting this!)