FIT5011 - Advanced network design and performance

Leader(s): Dr. Carlo Kopp

Offered

Not offered in 2009

Synopsis

This unit will cover network design, performance modelling and analysis. Queuing models (M/M/1, M/M/k, M/M/k/k, M/G/1), networks of queues. Multi-access systems (splitting, reservation, carrier sensing), routing techniques (shortest path, Bellman-Ford, Dijkstra, adaptive routing, flooding). Quality of service (QoS) aspects, flow control, connection admission control and other traffic management functions - ATM, IntServ and DiffServ models. Network topology design and performance modelling.

Objectives

At the completion of this unit students will have the understanding of:

1. the general concepts of queuing theory and its application in network design;
2. traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks;
3. network performance modelling and analysis;
4. traffic characterisation and modelling;
5. network topology and routing techniques;
6. key Quality of Service (QoS) measures and functions;
7. analysis and evaluation of the operation of a local or wide area telecommunications network;
8. major design aspects of a local or wide area network, including cable and wireless networks.

Assessment

Written assignment: 25%; Mid-semester Test (2 hours): 25%; Exam - Department (3 hours): 50%.

Contact hours

2 hours of lectures/week; 2 hours of tutorials/week.

Prerequisites

MAT4003. For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020, FIT4037 and MAT4003.

Prohibitions

ECE4045, ECE5045, CSE5805, CSE5808.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit5011