Course DescriptionIntended Audience

* Intended Audience
¶ The course is organized as an advanced PhD course and targets PhD students that are either working on networking-related problems or that are interested in extending their application- or system-oriented work to networks from a fundamental point of view.

* Instructors
¶ James Gross – james.gross@ee.kth.se¶ Hussein al-Zubaidy - hzubaidy@kth.se¶ ¶
* Lectures
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* Traditional Queuing Theory
Basic analysis of M/M/1, M/M/1/N and M/G/1 Systems¶ Erlangs Blocking formula¶ Queuing networks¶ Erlangs fixed point equation¶ Applications¶ ¶
* Deterministic Network Calculus
(Min,plus)- calculus¶ System-theoretic approach to deterministic network analysis¶ Arrival- and service curves¶ Delay & backlog bounds¶ Policing and shaping¶ Pay-burst-only-once¶ GPS-PGPS equivalence¶ ¶
* Effective Bandwidth/Capacity Theory
Multiplexing¶ Effective bandwidth¶ EBB arrival curves¶ Effective capacity¶ Applications¶ ¶
* Stochastic Network Calculus
Stochastic arrival and service curves¶ Performance bounds¶ Concatenation & scaling¶ MGF-calculus & applications¶ (Min,x)-calculus & applications¶