1. ECE 780 A2 Traffic Engineering and Network Design Fall Term 2008
ADVANCE NOTICE; New ECE Grad Course
ECE 780 A2 Traffic Engineering and Network Design Fall Term 2008
Instructor:
Wayne D. Grover, ECE Department, U of A (IEEE Fellow) Department: TRLabs:
Lectures: Tues/Thursday, 12:30-1:50 PM, Room GSB 859
WIRELESS STUDENTS: Traffic Theory determines how many RF channels are needed and Network Design underlies the backbone optical network through which every cell phone call is actually routed.
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ECE and CS grad students welcome.
Outline and Objective: This course gives a graduate level introduction to traffic engineering and network design. Traffic engineering determines just how many resources to provide in a shared way so as to economically meet grade-of-service objectives. Network design is concerned with the layout and capacity of links and the routing of flows so to support all communications between traffic sources, and in a fault-tolerant way. The course prepares a student for either further research in communications networking areas or for positions in network planning in operating companies such as TELUS or system design in vendor companies such as Nokia-Siemens for example. Topics include: Sources of traffic, traffic volume, traffic intensity, Erlang and CCS units, design busy hour concept, Binomial, Erlang B, Poisson-Molina, Erlang C, Engset, and Wilkinson traffic theories, alternate routing and overflow design, packet or cell flow traffic measures, equivalent bandwidth concept, statistical multiplexing, difference between traffic and transport networks, optimal routing, network flow problems, network dimensioning problems, all distinct routes, k-shortest paths, max-flow min-cut theory, min-cost network flow, topology design, solving network design problems, Internet routing and related issues, optimized restoration and protection design. .
Marking Scheme (tentative):
3 assignments no mid term Final take-home exam
References:
All notes, readings, and materials will be provided by the instructor. Additional references will be given but not required.