Computer Communication Networks

Theory/Lecture: Review of data communication techniques, basic networking concepts, layered network and protocol concepts, quality of service, motivations for cross-layer protocol design. Motivations for performance analysis, forward error correction and re-transmission performances, Markov and semi-Markov processes, Littles theorem, M/M/m/k, M/G/1 systems, priority queueing, network of queues, network traffic behavior. Concepts and analysis of multi-access protocols; contention-free and contention multi-access protocols. Basic graph theoretic concepts, routing algorithms and analysis.|Suggested lab Course content:|Laboratory: Simulation and hardware experiments on different aspects of computer communication networks. Network traffic generation and analysis, differentiated service queues, network of queues using discrete event simulations.