307638 (v.1) Networking Theory and Fundamentals 601

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Area:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Co Requisite(s):	11341 (v.4) Stochastic Processes for Telecommunications Systems 601 or any previous version
Queueing Systems including - systems of flow, specification and measure, notation and structure, definition and classification of stochastic processes, Little's result, birth-death processes, transform methods, solution of differential-difference equations, continuous-time Markov chains, the M/M/1 queue, multi-server systems, M/M/c, M/M/c/c and M/M/8, finite-source queueing systems, M/G/1 queueing systems, Burke's theorem, Jackson's theorem, circuit and packet switching, origin of the PSTN(public switched telephone network). Converged Networks - real-time traffic versus data traffic, best-effort service in connectionless networks, connection-oriented communications networks, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks, control/management, sharing of resources, indirect store-and-forward deadlock, routing constraints.