Performance Analysis of Communications Networks
(3-0-0-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Telecommunications
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Prerequisites: ECE 6601 and ECE 6607
Catalog Description
Fundamental concepts of queueing systems, and applications of queueingtheory to the performance evaluation of computer networks
Textbook(s)
Data NetworksCourse Outcomes
Not Applicable
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
Not Applicable
Topical Outline
Introduction
Basic Queueing Models
-Structure
-Little's Law
-System Utilization
Review of Random Processes
-General Overview
-Types of Discrete State Space Processes
-Markov Processes (Chains) (Discrete Time)
-Continuous Time Markov Chains
Birth-Death Queueing Systems
-Birth-Death Processes
-Special Cases of Birth Death Processes
-M/M/1 Queueing System
-M/M/m (The m-server case)
-Erlang-C Formula
-M/M/1/K (Finite Sotrage)
-M/M/m/m (m-Server Loss Systems)
-Erlang-B Formula
-M/M/Infinity
-M/M/1/-/M (Finite Customer Population-Single Server)
-M/M/inf/-/M (Finite Customer Population)
M/M/m/K/M (Finite Population, m-server Case)
Networks of Queues
-Two-Node Tandem Networks
-General Queueing Networks
M/G/1 Queueing Systems
-Overview of Solution Techniques
-Method of Imbedded Markov Chains
-Pollaczek-Khinchine Formula
-Mean Residual Time in M/G/1 Systems
Performance Analysis of Random Access Networks
-Fixed Assignment Access Methods (FDMA, TDMA)
-Time Random Multiple Access (TRMA) (Aloha; Slotted Aloha)
-Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) Protocols
-CSMA/CD Protocol
Performance Analysis of Controlled Access Networks (Token Ring)
-Basic Protocol
-Delay Analysis
Performance Analysis of Wide Area Networks (Arpanet; Internet)
Performance Analysis of Personal Communication Systems (PCS)
Performance Analysis of ATM Networks
-Overview of ATM Networks
-Basic Performance Analysis Studies (On/Off Models, MMPP, End-to-End
Modeling)