B024339 - TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Italian/English (Limited to specific parts )

Fundamental and advanced queueing models
Priority Queues
Open and Close Networks of Queues
Capacity Allocation in Data Networks

R. Fantacci, Queueing Systems : Theory and Applications, Ecsulapio, 2015 (Italian).

D. Bersekas, R. Gallager, Data Networks, Prentice Hall, 1992.

M. Schwartz , Telecommunication Networks, Addison Wesley, 1987

J.F. Hayes, T V.J. Modelling and Analysis of Telecommunications
Networks, J. Wiley, 2004.

K.S. Trivedi, Probability and Statitistics with Reliability Queueing and Computer Science Applications, Wiley, 2002.

Hwei Hsu, Probabilità, variabili casuali e processi stocastici, McGraw-Hill, 2011. (Italian)

This course deals with both theory and application of fundamental and advanced queueing models. Fundamental models include M/M/1 model and its variants, M/G/1 and G/M/1 models, bulk arrival and bulk service processes, and priority queues. The course also deals with open and closed Jackson networks and optimal solving of the capacity assignment problem in different cases. Applications emphasize communication networks and computer operations, but may include examples from different fields as transportation, manufacturing, and the service industry.

The course aims to provide students with ability to apply knowledge and capabilities to understand Queueing Theory and its applications to the modeling and analysis of Telecommunication Networks and Computer Systems.

Specific course objectives are :

- in-depth knowledge of fundamnetal queueing models;

- to be familiar with performance evaluation of queueing systems;

- Apply and extend queueing models to analyze real teleccomunication and computer systems.

Probability Theory and Linear Algebra.

Lectures, discussion groups, tutorials, problem solving, debates, etc.

Lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations covering the course topics will be made available at the page dedicated to the course on the moodle website (SIAF) . To login on moodle, you need to have activated your academy account.

The exams scheduling is available
at the UNIFI exams booking service.

Oral exam with specific questions in order to verify the acquisistion of skills on:

- Analysis of Queueing Systems;

- Networks of queues;

- Design and optimization of Telecommunication Networks.

Probability and Random Processes Review;

Application of Birth and Death Processes to Queueing Theory;

Analysis of multiplexing and access schemes;

Imbedded Markov Chain : Theory, Analysis and Applications;

Priority Queues;

Networks of Queues;

Capacity Allocation.

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