Lectures

Slides and the papers discussed in each class are listed below.

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  Course introduction

  tl;dr: Course overview and research themes in advanced computer networks.

  Slides & links: PDF
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  Lecture 1 Internet with Agents

  tl;dr: Coding agent workloads, WebSocket-based communication, and Context Protocol (MCP).

  Slides & links: PDF

  Reading list

  1. TraceLab: Characterizing Coding Agent Workloads for LLM Serving
  2. Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API , OpenAI
  3. Model Context Protocol