The course focuses on modelling and analyzing communication networks, network protocols and applications, using mathematical tools. It is designed for graduate students.
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Given in odd years, in P1.
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course consists of 24 hours of lectures, home assignments requiring roughly 20, project work requiring 30, and student presentation requiring 20 hours of work by each students.
The course addresses performance issues in current and future Internet architectures:
- Multi-access communication: CSMA/CD - reservation techniques (token and polling) - packet radio networks (WLANs)
- Routing in data networks: shortest path routing - optimal routing and topology design
- Flow control (TCP)
- Quality of service (QoS) in IP networks: requirements for multimedia transmission - network support: scheduling, shaping, forward error correction
- Current research topics on network performance
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to construct tractable models of complex networking problems and attack performance problems with analytical methods or simulation. These abilities are necessary for everyone working on technical fields - to understand the capabilities of specific technologies and the success or failure of new trends.
Course Disposition
Lectures, homeworks, small project and student presentation.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
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Recommended prerequisites
Communication networks, statistics, queuing theory
Equipment
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Literature
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Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
P, F
Examination
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Continuous exmaination based on small tests, home assignment and project.
Other requirements for final grade
Grade based on the results of tests, home assignments and project. Passed student presentation.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course web
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Main field of study
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Education cycle
Third cycle
Add-on studies
EP3215 Advanced Performance Analysis Project Course, 3 ECTS
Contact
Viktoria Fodor