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. |