Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Dmitri Moltchanov

Implementations

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Requirements

Lectures, exercises, exam.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

This course is devoted to those interested in traffic measurements, statistical analysis and further modeling 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 (5 lectures) we consider the concept of traffic in circuit-switched and packet-switched networks as well as traffic measurements in these networks. Then, we cover mostly known traffic models for both circuit-switched and packet-switched networks, show their fundamental properties and limitations and demonstrate their applicability.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Background information Introduction Reminder of probability Reminder of stochastic processes Reminder of statistics
2.	Traffic modeling Traffic concept and traffic measurements Basic principles of traffic modeling Representation of the arrival processes Renewal traffic models Markovian models Autoregressive models Fluid flow models Long-range dependent, self-similar and non-stationary models Traffic modeling in circuit-switched networks Traffic modeling in packet-switched networks

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Last modified	13.08.2008
Modifier	Hanna Hämäläinen