Communication and Media Engineering

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Multimedia Web Technologies

Teaching methods Lecture
Duration 1
Hours per week 6.0
Overview
Classes 90 h
Individual / Group work: 120 h
Workload 210 h
ECTS 7.0
Recommended semester 3
Frequency Every 2nd sem.
Lectures

Anonymity and Surveillance

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I807
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  • communication in networks when internal and external attackers are present
  • definition and usage of the terms anonymity, non-linkability and unobservability
  • concepts of distinguishability, concatenation and pseudonymity
  • privacy with different protection levels of communication data
  • legal framework of anonymity and data protection in the Internet
  • anonymization technologies, overlay networks
  • anonymizer, digital mixing according to Chaum, Java Anon Proxy (JAP) / JonDo
  • TOR networks and hidden services
  • threat models, mechanisms for protecting private network communication
  • self-protection in social networks, Deep Web und crime
  • remailer-systems and OTR-technologies
  • techniques for identifying users on the web
  • impact of anonymous Internet usage
Literature
  • selected publications of IEEE & ACM DLs
  • Jens Kubieziel, Anonym im Netz – Wie Sie sich und Ihre Daten schützen. Open Source Press; 3. Auflage, 2012.
  • Albert Kwon, Mashael AlSabah, David Lazar, Marc Dacier and Srinivas Devadas, Circuit fingerprinting attacks: Passive deanonymization of tor hidden services. In Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium, 2015.

Multimedia Databases

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I504
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  • Goals and principles of Multimedia Databases
  • Meta Data, Features, Segmentation, Query Types, Similarity
  • Image Databases, Content Based Retrieval, Semantic Gap, Deep Learning, Data Structures, Images in Oracle
  • Audio Databases, Music Retrieval, Shazam, Audio in Oracle
  • Video Databases, Video Features, Data Structures, Netflix, Video in Oracle
  • Text Databases
  • All Types of Media in one Database

Next Generation Internet

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I408
Hours per week 2.0
Content

 

Internet Architecture (principles and critical discussion of changes)

IPv6

Content Distribution in the Internet (CDNs, P2P systems, Information Centric Networking)

Multimedia communication (new transport protocols, congestion control, quality-of-service

 

Literature

 

  • J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross: Computer Networking -- A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet. Pearson, 2013.
  • additional articles and books are presented in the lecture

 

 

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