Course material

Litterature

The course is based on scientific papers that are available on the Web. Please see the links below. Some lectures use selected parts of coursebooks, copies will be provided by the lecturer. 

Queuing theory basics

Ph. Nain, Basic elements of queuing theory, parts 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 4.1.

www.netlab.hut.fi/opetus/s38143/luennot/english.shtml

List of papers

Traffic modeling

Lecture material

• J. Roberts, “Traffic theory and the Internet,” IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2001.
• A. Adas, “Traffic models in broadband networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1997.

Home reading

• A. Adas, “Traffic models in Broadband Networks”, IEEE communications Magazine, July 1997, and references

Medium access control

• R. Rom and M. Sidi, “Multiple access protocols,” Springer-Verlag. (Original publication: L. Kleinrock, F.A. Tobagi, “Packet switching in radio channels: part I,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1975.

www.comnet.technion.ac.il/rom/PDF/MAP.pdf

Congestion and error control

Lecture material

• Bertsekas, Gallager, Data networks, 6.2.1

Home reading

• J. Padhye, F. Firoiu, D. Towsley, J. Kurose, "Modelling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation," ACM Sigcomm, 1998
• Z. Chen, T. Bu, M. Ammar, D. Towsley, "Comments on modelling TCP Reno performance: a simple model and its empirical validation," IEEE TON, April 2006.

Scheduling

Lecture material and home reading

• A. K. Parekh and R.G. Gallager, “A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control – The single-node case,” IEEE TON, June 1993
• H. Zhang, “Service disciplines for guaranteed performance service in packet-switching networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Oct. 1995

Fairness

Lecture material and home reading

• Bertsekas, Gallager, Data networks, 6.5.2.
• L. Massoulie, J. Roberts, “Bandwidth sharing: objectives and algorithms,” IEEE Infocom 2000.

Multimedia networking

Lecture material and home reading

• N. Laoutaris, I. Stavrakakis, “Adaptive playout strategies for packet video receivers with finite buffer capacity,” IEEE ICC 2001.
• X. Yu, J.W. Modestino, X. Tian, “The accuracy of Gilbert models in predicting packet-loss statistics for a single multiplexer network model,” IEEE Infocom 2005.