Systems and Communicating Networks
Traffic and Performance
Published on 9. January 2004
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-1-903996-35-5 (ISBN)
Description
This guide to systems and communicating networks cover such topics as: teletraffic; QoS; probability; probability laws; statistics; reliability; queuing theory; system and network models; and performance methodology and applications.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Kogan Page Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, formulae, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-903996-35-5 (9781903996355)
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Persons
George Fiche is Performance Manager at Alcatel NV where for over 20 years he has been involved, amongst other fields of activity, in standardization in ITU and ETSI for performance and traffic engineering standardization. Gerard Hebuterne was at CNET, the French Telecom Research lab for ten years until 1994, since when he has been Professor at the Institut National des Telecommunications, in charge of the Networks Department. He has specialised in traffic theory and QoS aspects of multiservice broadband networks.
Content
Part 1 Teletraffic: network concepts; traffic concepts; traffic matrix; traffic characterization. Part 2 QoS: QoS, GoS and performance objectives for transport and control; standards and GoS parameters. Part 3 Probability: probability of mutually exclusive events; conditional probability; probability of independent events; Boys theorem; random variables; moments of random variables; Laplace transforms; generating functions; convolution. Part 4 Probability laws: binomial, multinomial, geometric, continuous uniform, exponential, Poisson, Gauss, Gamma, Erlang K, hyper exponential, Weibull, chi 2; central limit theorem. Part 5 Statistics: descriptive statistics; mathematical statistics. Part 6 Reliability: weakness level; reliability of non-reparable, redundant and reparable systems. Part 7 Queuing theory: queuing systems; birth and death process; models and approximations; MM1, MM1K, MMS, Mminfinite, MG1, MD1, NDD1, GM1, GG1, priority service. Part 8 System and network models: control; transport. Part 9 Performance methodology and applications: methodology; systems; networks.