Performance Analysis of Communications Networks and Systems
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2006
978-0-511-16670-9 (ISBN)
Description
This rigourous and self-contained book describes mathematical and, in particular, stochastic methods to assess the performance of networked systems. It consists of three parts. The first part is a review on probability theory. Part two covers the classical theory of stochastic processes (Poisson, renewal, Markov and queuing theory), which are considered to be the basic building blocks for performance evaluation studies. Part three focuses on the relatively new field of the physics of networks. This part deals with the recently obtained insights that many very different large complex networks - such as the Internet, World Wide Web, proteins, utility infrastructures, social networks - evolve and behave according to more general common scaling laws. This understanding is useful when assessing the end-to-end quality of communications services, for example, in Internet telephony, real-time video and interacting games. Containing problems and solutions, this book is ideal for graduate students taking courses in performance analysis.
Reviews / Votes
"The monograph Performance Analysis of Communications Networks and Systems by Piet Van Mieghem, Professor of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), can be recommended for graduate students and researchers working in the area of networking performance analysis...The book includes a lot of solved exercises and supplementary problems well suited for self-work, as well as an exhaustive bibliography...if you prefer fresh approaches and results within the area of probabilistic modeling of packet networks at the inevitable danger of being haunted by rigorous mathematical derivations, you must refer to van Mieghem's book."IEEE Communications Magazine
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Tables, unspecified; 87 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
4,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-511-16670-9 (9780511166709)
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Person
Piet F. A. Van Mieghem is a professor at the Delft University of Technology with a chair in telecommunication networks and is chairman of the Network Architectures and Services (NAS) group. His main research interests lie in new Internet-like architectures for future, broadband and QoS-aware networks and in the modelling and performance analysis of network behavior and complex infrastructures.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Random variables; 3. Basic distributions; 4. Correlation; 5. Inequalities; 6. Limit laws; 7. The Poisson process; 8. Renewal theory; 9. Discrete time Markov chains; 10. Continuous time Markov chains; 11. Applications of Markov chains; 12. Branching processes; 13. General queuing theory; 14. Queuing models; 15. General characteristics of graphs; 16. The shortest path problem; 17. The efficiency of multicast; 18. The hop count to an any cast group; Appendix A. Stochastic matrices; Appendix B. Algebraic graph theory; Appendix C. Solutions of problems; Bibliography; Index.
