University of Kansas Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

EECS 863 - Analysis of Communications Networks

Revised Course Deliverables and Due Dates

Final paper due 5/3

Oral presentation 5/1 and 5/3

• Course Overview: Rules, Outline, & Introduction
• Report Format
• Homework Format
• Questions to be addressed in your final presentation/paper
• Use this as a guide to writing your reports. Writing Technical Reports
• Extend software is available in any EECS Labs
• Erlang B, Erlang C, and Possion Tables: PDF
• M/M/1/N Excel Spreadsheet
• On-line Erlang Calculator
• On-line solution to Simultaneous Linear Equations
• Student t-Value Calculator
• Octave Queueing Toolbox (software package for Markov chains and queueing networks analysis)
• List of Queueing Theory Software
• Formulas used in Queueing theory

• Simulation Notes
• Source Routing Simulation Exercise for Extend

• Resource Scheduling

• Internet Tests and Measurements
  • Internet Speed Test from Speedtest.net
  • Internet Speed Test from Knology Broadband
  • Comscore
  • Youtube myspeed
  • State of the Internet Reprot from Akamai
  • M-Lab's Network Diagnostic Test
  • PingER (Ping End-to-End Reporting)
  • Internet Health
  • Wireshark
  • Link to Network measurement tools

Homework and Projects

Extend Models

Reference Information

• Papers of interest:

  Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway S. Sundaresan, W. de Donato, N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, S. Crawford, A. Pescape ACM SIGCOMM , Toronto, Ontario, Canada. August 2011.

  Understanding broadband speed measurements, Steve Bauer, David Clark, William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks, Zhaoguang Wang, Zhiyun Qian1, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley, Mao, Ming Zhang,Microsoft Research, ACM SIGCOMM , Toronto, Ontario, Canada. August 2011

  Measuring Broadband America A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S from the FCC, Measurements from Feb - June 2011

  Internet and the Erlang Formula, Thomas Bonald and James Roberts, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 42, Number 1, January 2012

  A queueing analysis of max-min fairness, proportional fairness and balanced fairness. T. Bonald, et. al, Queueing Systems, 2006

  Controlling Queue Delay, Kathleen Nichols, Van Jacobson, ACMQueue, May 2012

   

• Queueing Networks Modelling Lab
• Telecommunications Information Resources
• Networking Bibliography
• Internet Technical Resources from Henning Schulzrinne's web page
• ReseearchIndex
• Protocols for WAN, LAN, ATM Data Communications and Telecommunications
• Source of general information about IP on the web
• An Interesting Phone Fraud Story
• Extend Simulation Tool Information
• Animations of Network Protocols
• Secure Shell Recommendations
  • Unix
  • Windows - use Teraterm + ssh
    • Install Teraterm first, and then install ttssh on top of Teraterm

• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism The department, school and university have very strict guidelines regarding academic misconduct. Obviously, copying is not allowed on exams. Students are expected to submit their own work on individual homework and projects. Lending or borrowing all or part of a simulation model or program from another student is not allowed. Students ARE allowed to borrow and modify any code on this class web site in their projects. Instances of cheating will result in a referral to the department chairman and the dean of engineering.
  All sources in your written work (project reports) must be properly referenced; if you use a source from the literature or the idea of another for your work you must reference it. If you quote or copy a block of text, it must be cited and included in quotation marks (if a sentence or less in length) or in block quote style (if more than a sentence in length). If you paraphrase text (reword a phrase, sentence, or paragraph), you must also quote or blockquote followed by “[paraphrased]” in addition to proper citation. Figures taken from other sources must be referenced.

  The USC academic integrity quiz is also useful reading. If you have any doubt, talk to me – inexperience in past writing or coming from an environment where plagiarism was permitted will not be an acceptable excuse for academic misconduct.

  I recommend that you take intermediate notes from which you write your own words. I strongly recommend that you not write in one window while displaying the work of others in another window; this is asking for trouble. “Unintentional” paraphrasing is also not an acceptable excuse for academic misconduct.

  Modified with premission from James P.G. Sterbenz http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jpgs/courses/eecs800/ and John Gauch http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jgauch/teaching/258.f03/syllabus.html

• Advice on Writing
• Most colleges and universities have a writing center, a place for students to talk about their writing with trained peer consultants. At KU, we call our writing centers Writer's Roosts. When you visit, bring your work in progress and an idea of what you would like to work on-organization, support, documentation, editing, etc. The Roosts are open in several different locations across campus; please check the website at www.writing.ku.edu for current locations and hours. The Roosts welcome both drop-ins and appointments, and there is no charge for their services. For more information, please call 864-2399 or send an e-mail to writing@ku.edu .

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