Network design and performance evaluation techniques

Instructor: Prof. Nelson Fonseca
(e-mail: nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br)
Class schedule:

 September 3 - September 6, 2007 Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni, via Caruso 16, meeting room, ground floor

Content:

 Discrete Event Simulation

 Queuing Theory  Traffic Modeling  Traffic Control  Optimization Theory  Control Theory
References:

 Leonard Kleinrock, Queueing Systems, Volume 1, Wisley, 1975
 R. Jain, "The art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling,"Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, April 1991", John Wiley and Sons, 1991
 Michal Pioro e Deepankar Medhi, Routing, Flow, Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2004
 Anurag Kumar, D. manjunath e Joy Kuri, Communications Networking: an Analytical Approach, Elsevier , 2004
 Mischa Schwartz, Broadband Integrated Networks, Printice Hall, 1996

Class notes:

 Basic Concepts in Network Research
 Metrics for Performance Evaluation
 Summarizing Measured Data
 Probabability
 Transforms
 Some Stochastic Processes
 Markovian Queueus in Equilibrium
 The M/G/1 Queue
 Markovian Queues
 Probability Distribution
 Erlang Formula
 Simulation
 NS
 Traffic Modeling
 Tangram
 Introduction to Optimiation Theory in Communications Networks
 Use of Optimization Theory in Specific Network Technologies
 Introduction to Optimization Theory
 Traffic Control
 Multimedia Networks by Kurose and Ross
 Network Tool Slides

Course Material:

 Moshe Zukermanīs book
 Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control Mechanisms - INTERNET-DRAFT
 Tools for the Evaluation of Simulation and Testbed Scenarios - INTERNET-DRAFT
 Traffic Models in Broadband Networks
 Self-Similarity in Word Wide Web Traffic Evidence and Possible Causes
 Empirical Model of WWW Document Arrivals at Access Link
 Traffic Modeling For Telecommunications Network
 Source Models of Network Game Traffic
 Where Mathematics meets the Internet
 Efficient Traffic Generation for Modeling, Management and Verification
 Fractal Traffic Models for Internet Simulation
 tcplib: A Library of TCP Internetwork Traffic Characteristic
 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); Selection procedures for the choice of radio transmission technologies of the UMTS
 Fast, Approximate Synthesis of Fractional Gaussian Noise for Generating Self-Similar Network Traffic
 Network Traffic Modeling
 NS for beginners
 Tutorial 1 NS
 Tutorial 2 NS
 Envelope Process
 Mark Crovella's Book

Exercises:

 Trace for trace driven simulation
 Network tool exercise
 Simulation exercice

Interesting links:

 Tangram

 Network Simulator

 AWK  Gnuplot  TCL  NLANR - Traces