Design and Performance Evaluation of TLC Networks

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

 Wednesday, May 16 Room 106 14:00 - 18:00
 Thursday, May 17 Room 20 09:00 - 11:00 / 14:00 - 16:00
 Friday, May 18 Room 109 09:00 - 13:00
 Monday, May 21 Room 20 09:00 - 11:00 / 14:00 - 16:00
 Tuesday, May 22 Room 20 09:00 - 13:00

Content: dicrete event simulation, trace driven simulation, simulation with NS, computational solution of Markov queueing systems, network programing with sockets
References:

 Jain, "The art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis", John Wiley and Sons, 1991
 Stephen Lavenberg, Computer Performance Modeling Handbook, Academic Press, 1983
 W. Richard Stevens. UNIX Network Programming volume 1 - Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI. Prentice Hall PTR; 2nd edition (January 15, 1998)

Class notes:

 Simulation
 NS
 Metrics for Performance Evaluation
 Summarizing Measured Data
 Probability Distributions
 Sockets 1
 Sockets 2
 Sockets 3
 Sockets 4
 Sockets 5
 Sockets 6
 Network Tools Slides
 Tangram

Course Material:

 NS for beginners
 Tutorial 1 NS
 Tutorial 2 NS
 Ethereal
 Tangram

Exercises:

You should send all exercises to nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br. The subject of your e-mail should begin with [DIT]. Do not forget to put this in the subject; otherwise I may delete your e-mail, specially if it comes with a user not in the domain unitn.it. I will acknowledge the receipt of you exercise. The deadline to return the exercises is July 15th, 2007.

 Trace for trace driven simulation Network tool exercise Simulation exercice

Interesting links:

 Page Stevens' book

 RFC 1700, Assigned Numbers

 Tangram

 Network Simulator

 AWK  Gnuplot  TCL  NLANR - Traces