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- M. Tornatore: Communication Network Design
Topics
- Introduction. Telecom network overview and trend evolution, business models,
traffic engineering vs network engineering vs network design, the telecom network hierarchy (core vs. metro vs. access network), overview of technologies and
- protocols. [1hr]
- Network design methodologies. Network design based on mathematical
modelling: flow formulation, route formulation. Modelling of network protection: dedicated protection, shared protection. Network design by heuristic approaches: greedy, local search. [8hrs]
- Simulation of a telecom network. Definition of simulation, discrete event
stochastic simulation, generation of pseudo-random numbers, analysis and validation
- f the results. [4.5hrs]
- Analysis of circuit-switched networks. Queueing theory primer. Traffic modeling:
definition and properties. Poisson, Bernoulli and Pascal ttaffic. Analysis of multiple- server system with assumption BCC, BCH, BCD. Evaluation of congestion and statistics of carried/lost traffic. Dimensioning of overflow trunk: Wilkinson approach. [9hrs]
- Capacity and Traffic Flow Assignment Problems in Communication Networks.
Delay analysis, the capacity assignment problem, the traffic flow assignment problem, the capacity and flow assignment problem. [4.5hrs]
- Presentations from students. [3hrs]
- Final Exam. [3hrs]