Internet Measurement (Vorlesung, SoSe 2020)

As our social, economic, and civil activity is moving online, we heavily rely on the Internet. However, despite the critical role of the Internet, our ability to answer simple questions regarding the state, resilience, and performance of the Internet is rather limited. For example, it is challenging to estimate how many devices are connected online, how networks interconnect and exchange traffic, how secure are our communication over the Internet, how private are our website visits, and how good is the performance of services and applications that run on top of the Internet. In this course, we will discuss principles and empirical (data-driven) methods to measure the Internet towards answering all the above questions.

Topics of the course include:

• Inference of the Internet topologies (logical, router, physical) with active and passive measurements
• Measurement of Internet infrastructures: Internet Service Providers, Internet Exchange Points, and Content Delivery Networks
• Network flow and traffic measurements
• Traffic modeling and characterization
• Network performance measurement
• Web measurement
• IP geo-location
• Special topics on measuring Internet security and privacy

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Informationen (Termine, Anmeldeformalitäten) werden rechtzeitig bekannt gegeben.

• James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach [6]. Addison-Wesley, fourth edition, 2007. (englisch), online version [7] (preliminary version of 1st edition, password will be given during the course)
  Ressources: 2nd edition [8], 3rd edition [9]
• Mark Crovella, Balachander Krishnamurthy. Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications. Wiley, 2006. (english)