Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

This is the first version of the unit.

This unit is one of four core units in the Network Computing Specialisation in the MIT and MAIT and an elective in all FIT masters

This is a level 5 specified elective unit in the MDC (offered by FIT) and MTC (offered by Engineering). This is the faculty's only unit that concentrates solely on the advanced network design and performance analysis.

FIT5011 replaces CSE5805 and CSE5808 in the Master of Digital Communications, a cognate degree offered by the Faculty of IT. It builds upon assumed prerequisite knowledge at the level of an undergraduate introductory unit in Networks and Data Communications (such as the FIT common core unit FIT1005/2008 or equivalent study.) This unit provides MDC graduates with advanced knowledge about a fundamental area within the field of digital communications, namely advanced network design techniques and strategies and performance analysis. Advanced Network Design and Performance are very important fields in IT and are essential skills and knowledge for a wide range of employment. In addition, Digital communications is an active area of research within the Faculty, and this unit (and the other MDC courseware units) contribute to the Faculty's research-teaching nexus.

1. the general concepts of queuing theory and its application in network design
2. traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks
3. network performance modelling and analysis
4. Traffic characterisation and modelling
5. network topology and routing techniques
6. key Quality of Service (QoS) measures and functions and be able to
7. analyse and evaluate the operation of a local or wide area telecommunications network
8. carry out the major design aspects of a local or wide area network, including cable and wireless networks

ASCED Discipline Group Classification: 020113

This unit will cover network design, performance modelling and analysis. Queuing models (M/M/1, M/M/k, M/M/k/k, M/G/1), networks of queues. Multi-access systems (splitting, reservation, carrier sensing), routing techniques (shortest path, Bellman-Ford, Dijkstra, adaptive routing, flooding). Quality of service (QoS) aspects, flow control, connection admission control and other traffic management functions - ATM, IntServ and DiffServ models. Network topology design and performance modelling.

This unit will cover network design, performance modelling and analysis. Queuing models (M/M/1, M/M/k, M/M/k/k, M/G/1), networks of queues. Multi-access systems (splitting, reservation, carrier sensing), routing techniques (shortest path, Bellman-Ford, Dijkstra, adaptive routing, flooding). Quality of service (QoS) aspects, flow control, connection admission control and other traffic management functions - ATM, IntServ and DiffServ models. Network topology design and performance modelling.

• W. Stallings, High-Speed Networks and Internets - Performance & Quality of Services, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
• D. Bertsekas and R. Gallager, Data Networks (2nd edition), Prentice-Hall, 1992.
• M. Schwartz, Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1987.
• S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks (3rd Edition), Prentice-Hall, 1996.
• D. Gross and C. M. Harris, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (3rd Edition), Wiley Interscience, 1998.
• U. D. Black, QOS in wide area networks, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
• D. McDysan, QoS & traffic management in IP and ATM networks, McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Day

2 hours lecture, 2 hours tutorial or group study

Lecture for objectives C1-6, A1-2 and P1-2. Tutorial and group study for objectives C7-8 and S1-2.

Formal assessment consisting of

• 25% - 1 Written Assignment
• 25% - mid semester test (2 hrs)
• 50% - Exam 1 ( 3 hours, Department - Closed book )

• 1 Written Assignment
  • Objective 1 ( the general concepts of queuing theory and its application in network design )
  • Objective 2 ( traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks )
  • Objective 3 ( network performance modelling and analysis )
  • Objective 4 ( Traffic characterisation and modelling )
• mid semester test (2 hrs)
  • Objective 2 ( traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks )
  • Objective 3 ( network performance modelling and analysis )
  • Objective 4 ( Traffic characterisation and modelling )
• Exam 1
  • Objective 1 ( the general concepts of queuing theory and its application in network design )
  • Objective 2 ( traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks )
  • Objective 3 ( network performance modelling and analysis )
  • Objective 4 ( Traffic characterisation and modelling )
  • Objective 5 ( network topology and routing techniques )
  • Objective 6 ( key Quality of Service (QoS) measures and functions and be able to )
  • Objective 7 ( analyse and evaluate the operation of a local or wide area telecommunications network )
  • Objective 8 ( carry out the major design aspects of a local or wide area network, including cable and wireless networks )

6

Per week:

• 2 hours of lectures
• 2 hours of tutorials
• 0 hours of seminars

2 hours lecture

2 hours tutorial

None

2 hours lecture, member of staff active in telecommuniations or Internet related research

No software requirements beyond a SoE.

Since this is not a new unit and CSE5805 has been introduced for a long time, the library has already got a number of reference books available.

Faculty of IT

None

None

None

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• MAT4003.
• For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020, FIT4037 and MAT4003.