Instructor: Francesco Bronzino - [email protected]
Office: GN1.354
Office hours: Thu 15:00-16:00 (1 hour slot of availability to discuss freely about anything related to the course)
Course's syllabus: https://fbronzino.notion.site/network-measurements
Course’s page: https://etudes.ens-lyon.fr/course/view.php?id=5919
Schedule: Wed 13:30-15:30, Thu 10:15-12:15. From Nov 20th to Jan 22nd
Network measurements enable operators and practitioners to better study the networks they manage and investigate. Unfortunately, the complex ecosystem that is today’s Internet, makes it necessary to master a large variety of techniques and tools to study our networks. Ever growing network speeds, encryption, and heterogeneous access technologies are just some of the challenges that increase the complexity of this task.
This course aims to introduce students to the art of network measurements across the variety of techniques that are used to collect and interpret information from the network and the traffic that travers it. From switches and routers, to user space and wireless links, the students will learn the challenges that arise when collecting traffic information at different levels of the network. Next, the course will introduce the students to different techniques used to interpret the collected information and transform it into actionable knowledge.
The course will be structured as 15x2 lectures of different nature:
👨🏫 Presentations: classic courses where the instructor presents a topic to the class📰 Articles discussions: discussions driven by the students around one or multiple given articles (to read before the class). All discussions are first introduced by a few slides presented by the instructor👨💻 Labs: hands on sessions to explore in practice how to deploy and interpret measurement tools and the constraints they face⁉️ Project discussions and 📽️ Project presentations: each student will work on a project around one network measurement problem of choice. Discussion slots will be dedicated during the course to validate the students’ progress and a presentation will be done by each student during the last day of class