Deliverable 13.1: Survey on Internet Science Research

This deliverable seeks to provide an Internet Science Survey. Since "Internet Science" is still more of an ultimate goal of this NoE than "a reality", this survey aims at presenting the different and usually unsynchronized efforts to study and understand Internet from different perspectives and disciplines. In this way it will serve as an important starting point to on one hand provide a cohesive view of the Internet research and on the other hand motivate and enable research towards making Internet a unifying discipline that although borrows some of its principles from other well-established sciences, has also its own particular fundamental laws and principles, similar to any other empirical science. Towards these goals, this deliverable presents the major Internet research drives that have been pursued so far, while next version, i.e., D13.2 related to the Roadmap of Internet Science will provide the future directions of Internet Science Research based on this study and the findings of this NoE.
The organisation of the deliverable is based on the evidence that Network Science and Web Science consist the two major Internet research drives followed by more recent research interest on (i) investigating how the Internet can support sustainability at planetary scale, (ii) how to deal with the new privacy and security issues brought up by the penetrating to Internet technologies, like cloud computing, sensor networks and Internet of things, and (iii) the various legislation and standardisation issues arisen as the Internet evolves.