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Author Vien, Quoc-Tuan, author.

Title Network design, modeling and performance evaluation / Quoc-Tuan Vien.

Publication Info. London, United Kingdom : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 324 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series IET telecommunications series ; 77
IET telecommunications series ; 77.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index.
Summary The book is written at postgraduate level and comprises N chapters dealing with the following subjects: internetworking; network fundamentals; routing; computer networks; Internet Protocol addressing; network analysis; network architecture; network-requirement analysis; network flow analysis; network performance evaluation; network simulation models; statistical models; performance analysis; discrete random variables; continuous random variables; random variable generation; queuing theory; single-server-queues; and multiserver queues.
Contents Intro; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1: Internetworking and network fundamentals; 1.1 Fundamentals of networking; 1.2 Local area networks; 1.2.1 LAN devices; 1.2.2 LAN topologies; 1.2.3 LAN technologies; 1.2.4 LAN access methods; 1.2.5 LAN transmission methods; 1.3 Wide area networks; 1.3.1 WAN devices; 1.3.2 WAN topologies; 1.3.3 WAN technologies; 1.4 Open systems interconnection reference model; 1.4.1 OSI layers; 1.4.2 Interaction between OSI layers in communications; 1.4.3 Information exchange and information formats in OSI layers
1.5 Internet Protocols1.5.1 TCP/IP suite; 1.5.2 Internet Protocol; 1.5.3 Transmission Control Protocol; 1.5.4 User datagram protocol; 1.5.5 Other protocols; 1.6 Internetworks; 1.6.1 Internetwork hierarchy; 1.6.2 Internetwork addressing; 1.6.3 Standards organizations; 1.6.4 Internetworking devices; 1.7 Related works; 1.8 Review questions; 1.9 Problems; 2: Routing in computer networks; 2.1 Fundamentals of routing; 2.1.1 Path determination; 2.1.2 Routing algorithms; 2.2 Static routing protocols; 2.3 Dynamic routing protocols; 2.4 Interior gateway protocols
2.4.1 Distance-vector routing protocols2.4.2 Link-state routing protocols; 2.4.3 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol; 2.5 Border Gateway Protocols; 2.6 Related works; 2.7 Review questions; 2.8 Problems; 3: Internet Protocol addressing; 3.1 An overview of IP address; 3.1.1 Addressing types; 3.1.2 Addressing mechanisms; 3.2 IP version 4 (IPv4); 3.2.1 Private IP addresses; 3.2.2 Classful IP addresses; 3.3 Subnetting; 3.4 Variable-length subnetting; 3.5 Supernetting; 3.6 IP version 6; 3.7 Related works; 3.8 Review questions; 3.9 Problems; 4: Network analysis, architecture, and design
4.1 An overview of network analysis, architecture, and design4.2 Network analysis process; 4.3 Network architecture process; 4.4 Network design process; 4.5 Network hierarchical design; 4.6 Network hierarchical layers; 4.6.1 Core layer; 4.6.2 Distribution layer; 4.6.3 Access layer; 4.7 Network design approaches and evolution; 4.8 Network management and security; 4.8.1 Network design goals; 4.8.2 Technology evaluation criteria; 4.8.3 Network-management design; 4.9 Related works; 4.10 Review questions; 4.11 Problems; 5: Network-requirement analysis; 5.1 Network services and requirements
5.2 Service characteristics5.3 Requirement-analysis process; 5.4 User-requirement analysis; 5.5 Application-requirement analysis; 5.6 Host-requirement analysis; 5.7 Network-requirement analysis; 5.8 Requirement-analysis model; 5.9 Reliability, maintainability, and availability analyses; 5.10 Related works; 5.11 Review questions; 5.12 Problems; 6: Network flow analysis; 6.1 Flows; 6.2 Data sources and sinks; 6.3 Flow models; 6.3.1 Peer-to-peer model; 6.3.2 Client-server model; 6.3.3 Cooperative computing model; 6.3.4 Distributed computing model; 6.4 Flow boundaries; 6.5 Flow distributions
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Computer networks -- Evaluation.
Computer networks -- Evaluation.
Network performance (Telecommunication) -- Evaluation.
Network performance (Telecommunication)
Evaluation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vien, Quoc-Tuan. Network design, modeling and performance evaluation 9781785613364 (OCoLC)1081309867
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