Although the Internet is now a planet-wide communication medium, we have remarkably little quantitative understanding of it. This ground breaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the important field of Internet Measurement, and includes a first detailed look at three areas:
* measurements of Internet infrastructure: routers, links, network connectivity and bandwidth,
* measurements of traffic on the Internet: packets, bytes, flows, sessions, etc.,
* measurements of various key Internet applications: DNS, Web, Peer-to-Peer, and networked games.

Each...