Introduction. Why measure the Internet? Internet architecture. Practical issues in Network Measurement: the role of time, the role of Internet Directories, measurements across various protocol layers. Infrastructure: properties, challenges, tools. Traffic: properties, challenges, tools. Applications: DNS, World Wide Web, peer to peer systems, online games. Anonymization, security. Advanced topics: youtube, network tomography, privacy, social networks, voice over IP.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to describe the field of internet measurement and monitoring Understanding: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to explain the techniques used to measure and monitor the web. Application: Having attended and passed the course, the student is able to take their own measurements online. Analysis: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to attempt the analysis of systems that perform online measurements Synthesis: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to combine different measurement and monitoring tools to build a new measurement infrastructure. . Evaluation: Having attended and succeeded in the course, the student is able to evaluate the performance and resilience of an Internet system by performing measurements on it.
Student Performance Evaluation
Specific details on grading can be found on the course’ s website
The courses of the Computer Science Department are designated with the letters "CS" followed by three decimal digits. The first digit denotes the year of study during which students are expected to enroll in the course; the second digit denotes the area of computer science to which the course belongs.
First Digit
Advised Year of Enrollment
1,2,3,4
First, Second, Third and Fourth year
5,6
Graduate courses
7,8,9
Specialized topics
Second Digit
Computer Science Area
0
Introductory - General
1
Background (Mathematics, Physics)
2
Hardware Systems
3
Networks and Telecommunication
4,5
Software Systems
6
Information Systems
7
Computer Vision and Robotics
8
Algorithms and Theory of Computation
9
Special Projects
The following pages contain tables (one for each course category) summarizing courses offered by the undergraduate studies program of the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete. Courses with code-names beginning with "MATH" or "PHYS" are taught by the Mathematics Department and Physics Department respectively at the University of Crete.