Thesis Outline

Version 0.1

1. Introduction 

	1.1	History/Background of Network Telescope at Rhodes (will most likely move this else where)
	1.2 Probelm Statement
	1.3 Research Goals
	1.4 Research Scope
	1.5 Motivation for Research

2. Literature Review

	2.1 Network Telescopes
		2.1.1 What is a Network Telescope
		2.1.2 Explaining the telescope analogy 
		2.1.3 History of Telescopes
		2.1.4 How to build a telescope
	2.2 Security Metrics
		2.2.1 What is a security Metric (definition) 
		2.2.2 Examples of security metrics
		2.2.3 ...
	2.3	Artificial Intelligence
		2.3.1 Neural Networks 
		2.3.2 Bayesian Networks
		2.3.3 Fuzzy Logic
		2.3.4 ...
	2.4 Network Traffic Trends/ Historical Events/Viruses
		2.4.1 Conficker
		2.4.2 MyTob 
		2.4.3 Possible misconfiguration
		2.4.4 ...
	2.5 Stats 
		2.5.1 Basic stats - median, mean, iqr etc 
		2.5.2 ANOVA
		2.5.3 Regression (maybe, I dunno if I will actually use it) 
		2.5.4  ... 
	2.6 Mathematical Modelling 
		2.6.1 B-Splines
		2.6.2 ODE Solvers
		2.6.3 ....
		
3.	Design 
	3.1 SQL Optimization 
	3.2 AI Optimization 
	3.3 Networking Telescopes
	3.4 ...

4. .....

5. Conclusion