Courses persons responsible
Evgeny Kucheryavy

Lecturers
Dmitri Moltchanov

Implementations

Person responsible:

Dmitri Moltchanov

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	2 h/week	2 h/week	-	-	-	-
Assignment	-	2 h/week	-	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
To get familiar with similations of networks. This course is devoted to those interested in theoretical and practical aspects of simulation of telecommunications networks and systems for network performance evaluation, optimization and control. The course is divided into two parts. In the first part the knowledge of probability, statistics and stochastic processes required to understand the content of the course is given. In the second part we consider basic principles of discrete event simulation and put a major attention on setup of simulations, collection and analysis of output results. Well-known network simulation packages, including ns2 and OPNET, are also considered. The attention is also paid to simulation of Markov chains that is of major importance in analysis of computer networks and systems.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Probability refresher - Introduction - Probability theory - Stochastic processes - Statistics
2.	Network simulation - Introduction to simulations - Random numbers generators and associated tests - Collection of data and analysis of results - Variance reduction techniques - Discrete-event simulations - Design of discrete-event simulations - Network simulation packages: ns2 and OPNET - Special topics in simulations

Requirements for completing the course
Pass of examination.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TLT-2106	TLT-2106 Basic Course on Networking	5	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	48
Assignments	12
Total sum	60

Correspondence of content
TLT-2706 Traffic Modeling and Network Simulation Techniques

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Last modified	16.08.2007
Modified by	Dmitri Moltchanov