Contents

Multimedia and quality of service (Streaming, IntServ, DiffServ)
Security (cryptography, authentication, electronic payment, SSL, SET, IPSec, Firewalls), Web technologies (markup and script languages, HTML, XML, Javascript, Perl, PHP, content management, server architectures, search engines), scenarios for electronic commerce (B2C, B2B), mobile commerce, embedded Internet (embedded Web servers, embedded Java), quantitative aspects of the Internet (growth, traffic characterization, heavy tails and fractals), capacity planning with simple queuing models.

Language

All document are written in english, the lecture and exercise classes are in german.

Time and Place

Lecture:	Thursdays,	12:15	-	13:45,	H10
Exercise Classes:	Fridays,	10:15	-	11:45,	00.151 (Wolfgang-Händler-Hochhaus, ground floor)
Supervised Computer Hours:	Wednesdays,	14:15	-	15:45,	01.155 (CIP-Pool 1st floor)

Everey week either exercise classes or supervised computer hours are offered. During the supervised computer hours you can work on the practical exercises (assignments) . A teaching assistant will be present. If no teaching assistant is present, you can discuss your questions with Mr. Kai-Steffen Hielscher (room 4.139) during the scheduled computer hours. After you have solved all exercises, you can take an exam (Klausur) to obtain the certificate (Schein). Topics of the lecture are practised in the exercise classes. The dates for supervised computer hours, exercise classes, exercises and the dates the exercises are due for can be seen in the following table:

Lecturers

Lecture:	Prof. Dr. Reinhard German
Exercise Classes:	Kai-Steffen Hielscher
Supervised Computer Hours:	Markus Preißner E-Mail

Slides of the Lecture (PDF)

Recommended Literature

Kurose, Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison Wesley, 2000
available in "Gruppenbibliothek Informatik" (library at the 2^nd floor),  "Handapparat" Number 11 and in TNZB.

Online Sources and further Reading

Online-Version des Lehrbuchs:	Kurose, Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet
Introduction to HTML (in german):	Stefan Münz: SELFHTML
Introdcution to PHP (in german):	Damir Enseleit, Matthias Hupp: SELFPHP
Cryptography:	Online version of Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone: CRC Handbook of Applied Cryptography Excellent book, much of the material presented there is beyond the scope of this lecture.