SIGCOMM 2014 Tutorial: Teaching Computer Networking with Mininet

Welcome to the Mininet tutorial at SIGCOMM 2014!

Tutorial Program

Virtual Machine Images

• 32 bit: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~jvimal/mininet-sigcomm14/mininet-tutorial-vm-32bit.zip
• 64 bit: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~jvimal/mininet-sigcomm14/mininet-tutorial-vm-64bit.zip

Please use VirtualBox to set up the Mininet VM. The username and password are both "mininet" (without quotes).

Presentation Slides

• Session 1: Introduction to Mininet (gdoc), (pdf)

  • Session 1: BGP hijacking attack, (pdf)

• [Session 2: Hands-on Laboratory Example: Bufferbloat] (https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Bufferbloat). Slides: pdf, ppt

• Session 3: Experiences using Mininet for Teaching

  1. At Georgia Tech pdf, ppt
  2. At MIT pdf
     • Video of training versus testing performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAh4bMMA1AI.
  3. At Stanford pdf, ppt

Useful Links

• Mininet Teaching Site (teaching.mininet.org)
• Main Mininet Site (mininet.org)
• Mininet Documentation (docs.mininet.org)
• Reproducing Network Research: A blog where students in the advanced networking course (CS244) at Stanford University post about their experiences reproducing network research published in top conferences (NSDI, SIGCOMM, etc.).
• Mahimahi: A set of lightweight tools for browser developers, website authors, and Web server developers to produce a usable benchmark for Web transport protocols and browser behaviors.