TCN-6420 Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Networks
Spring 2012

Syllabus

General Information

• Meeting Time and Place: TR 11:00 - 12:15, ECS 136.
• Instructor: Jason Liu.
  • Office: ECS 261B.
  • Phone: 305-348-1625.
  • Email: liux@cis.fiu.edu.
  • Web: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~liux/.
• Office Hours (subject to change): Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:00-16:30; Wednesdays 9:30-11:30. Please make an appointment before coming to the office hour to guarantee availabililty.

Prerequisites: TCN 5030 (Computer Communications and Networking Technologies) or equivalent. Some knowledge on basic probability and statistics will certainly be helpful.

Course Description:

This course covers methods and research issues in the models and performance evaluation of high-speed and cellular networks. Focuses on the tools from Markov queues, queuing networks theory and applications.

Course topics:

• Introduction to performance evaluation
• Measurement techniques and tools
• Probability and statistics
• Simulation
• Queuing models
• Experimental design and analysis
• Other topics of practical/subject matters

Textbooks

Required Textbook:

• The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling, by Raj Jain, Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, April 1991, ISBN:0471503361.

Recommended Readings:

• Discrete Event System Simulation, by Jerry Banks, John Carson, II, Barry Nelson, and David Nicol. Prentice Hall, June 2009. ISBN: 9780136062127.

Evaluation

Workload and Grade Breakdown:

• Class participation: 40%
• Group project (including demonstration, presentation and final report): 60%

• You can focus on a specific research work of yours, either it's a previous paper or what you're currently working on. You need to apply the performance evaluation techniques here to improve that work.
• You can work on a new problem, under the supervision of the instructor, which must be related to experimental performance evaluation within your area of interest.
• You can apply performance evaluation techniques on a research study done by others, and apply the performance evaluation techniques to improve the work.

Policy

• Various religious holy days occur throughout the academic year, so the instructor will work with students to ensure that no conflict exists between their religious obligations and their course work. You must let your instructor know prior to a holy day of restrictions that conflict with course attendance, homework submissions, and exams.
• Florida International University is a community dedicated to generating and imparting knowledge through excellent teaching and research, the rigorous and respectful exchange of ideas, and community service. All students should respect the right of others to have an equitable opportunity to learn and honestly demonstrate the quality of their learning. Therefore, all students are expected to adhere to a standard of academic conduct, which demonstrates respect for themselves, their fellow students, and the educational mission of the University. All students are deemed by the University to understand that if they are found responsible for academic misconduct, they will be subject to the Academic Misconduct procedures and sanctions, as outlined in the Student Handbook.