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431-642 Queueing Theory for Telecommunications | |
Availability | This subject may not be offered every year, please refer to the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Credit Points | 7.14 |
Prerequisites | Grade of H2B or better in 619-005 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Electrical Engineers or equivalent, and in 431-313 Voice and Data Networks. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of tutorials |
Subject Description | On completion of this subject, the students should; understand the principles of queuing theory; be able to use queuing theory models to analyse the traffic performance of circuit-switched and packet-switched telecommunications and computer-communication networks. The content includes; Review of basic queuing models: M/M/1, M/M/2, M/M/· and M/M/n/n. Queuing theory models: M/G/1 queue, GI/1 queue, Discrete-time queuing models. Network Models: Equivalent random method, Erlang fixed- point methods. Packet switched networks: Kleinrock independence assumption, capacity assignment and flow assignment, end to end delays, flow control, Networks of queues. Local Area networks: Random access models, Poling models. Advanced communications networks: Modelling of B-ISDN networks. |
Assessment | One written examination not exceeding three-hours, practice classes, tests, assignments, and project reports not exceeding 20 pages |
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