Networking Lab, Department of Computer Science

Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach
byAnurag Kumar, D. Manjunath and Joy Kuri.

Chapters:

Section 2.2 (Functional Elements)
Section 2.3.5 (The Internet)
Sections 3.1 - 3.2 (notation and terminology)
Sections 4.1-4.4 (deterministic analysis, includes network calculus and scheduling)
Section 5.11 (long-range dependence)
Sections 7.6 - 7.6.5 (TCP)
Chapter 14 (routing) pay attention to the problem setup and algorithms used in practice, but don't worry about the mathematical solution as a linear programming problem. Instead, we want to focus ont the flow deviation algorithm, which is described in many places including here: http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~aek1/optimization_methods/OPT_2004.zip

(Ask Mart Molle for this part)

	Networking Depth Exam
Part A	Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James Kurose and Keith Ross Addison Wesley (Edition 3 covers also some wireless networks 802.11). Alternative book: L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie, Computer Networks, A Systems Approach, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. (Ask Michalis Faloutsos for this part)
Part B	Communication Networking : An Analytical Approach byAnurag Kumar, D. Manjunath and Joy Kuri. Chapters: Section 2.2 (Functional Elements) Section 2.3.5 (The Internet) Sections 3.1 - 3.2 (notation and terminology) Sections 4.1-4.4 (deterministic analysis, includes network calculus and scheduling) Section 5.11 (long-range dependence) Sections 7.6 - 7.6.5 (TCP) Chapter 14 (routing) pay attention to the problem setup and algorithms used in practice, but don't worry about the mathematical solution as a linear programming problem. Instead, we want to focus ont the flow deviation algorithm, which is described in many places including here: http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~aek1/optimization_methods/OPT_2004.zip (Ask Mart Molle for this part)
Part C	Modeling and Analysis of Telecommunication Networks by J. F. Hayes and T. V. J. Ganesh Babu John Wiley 2004. Chapters: 2. Probability and Random Processes Review 3. Application of Birth and Death Processes to Queueing Theory 4: Networks of Queues: Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4. 6: The M/G/1 Queue: 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3 (Ask Srikanth Krishnamurthy for this part)