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ECEC-632: Performance Analysis of Computer Networks

(Winter, 2006)


CRN 20212
Course Number ECEC-632
Section Number 501
Credits 3.0
Time Thursdays 6pm - 8:50pm
Room Randell Hall 329
Instructor Steven Weber
Restrictions graduate standing
Department Electrical and Computer Engineering

Description

Covers probability theory and its applications to networks, random variable and random processes; Markov chains, multi-dimensional Markov chains; M/M/1, M/M/m, M/M/m/m, M/G/1 and G/G/1 queueing systems and their applications in computer networks; analysis of networks of queues: Kleinrock Independence Approximation; Time-reversibility and Burke's theorem; Jackson's theorem; the phenomenon of long-range dependence and its implications in network design and traffic engineering.

Textbook (required)

Kumar Title Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach
Authors Anurag Kumar, D. Manjunath, and Joy Kuri
Publisher Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 0124287514
Edition 1st

Grading

Homework (one problem set per week)20%
Midterm Exam (comprehensive)40%
Final Exam (comprehensive)40%

Late Homeworks and Makeup Exams

Makeup exams are only available if you are unable to attend due to a severe health problem or a death in your family. Homeworks are due at the beginning of class, one week following the class in which they were assigned. Late homeworks will not be accepted.

Academic Dishonesty

The Drexel University policy on academic dishonesty may be found here and will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism, fabrication, and cheating will, at the discretion of the instructor, constitute grounds for failure of the course.