Design and Performance Evaluation of TLC Networks

Design and Performance Evaluation of TLC Networks

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

Class schedule:

Wednesday, June 3rd	Room 107	10:00 - 13:00
Thursday, June 4th	Room 106	10:00 – 13:00
Friday, June 5th	Room 20	10:00 – 13:00
Monday, June 8th	Room 20	09:00 – 13:00
Tuesday, June 9th	Room 106	09:00 - 13:00
Wednesday, June 10th	Room 106	09:00 - 13:00

Content: discrete event simulation, trace driven simulation, simulation with NS, tools, network programming 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:

Research on networks

Simulation

NS-2

NS-3

Simulators for wireless networks

Metrics for Performance Evaluation

Summarizing Measured Data

Probability Distributions

NCTuns

Tools for Bandwidth Estimation

Course Material:

Exercises:

You should send all exercises to nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br. The subject of your e-mail should begin with [DISI]. 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 June 30th, 2009.

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

Web site of NLANR project