Course Info
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Course Category
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Computer Science/Information Technology
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Course Level
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Graduate
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-requisites
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N/A
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Instructor
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Dr. Junaid Qadir
Ph.D.
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Course Contents
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Introduction to Network Performance Evaluation (NPE),
Science of NPE,
Common NPE Errors,
NPE Performance Metrics & Techniques,
Introduction to Statistics,
Summarizing Measured Data,
Sampling a Population,
Hypothesis testing,
Confidence Intervals,
Model fitting or Regression models,
Art of Modeling and NPE,
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics,
Visual Display of Quantitative Data,
Empirical Methods and Measurements,
Workload Modeling,
Common Distributions (Mediocristan),
Common Distributions (Extremistan),
Introduction to Fractals,
Self-similarity and LRD,
Experimental Design,
One-Factor Experiments,
Full Factorial Designs,
Fractional Factorial Designs,
Network Management,
Internet Measurement Issues and Tools,
Internet Measurement Results,
Introduction to Stochastic Processes,
Common Stochastic Processes,
Discrete-Time Markov Chains,
Continuous-Time Markov Chains,
Introduction to Queuing Theory,
Fundamentals of Queueing Theory,
Single-Server Queueing Systems,
Multi-Server Queueing Systems,
Queueing Networks,
Operational Analysis,
Analysis of Queueing Networks,
Introduction to Simulation,
Random Number Generation,
Verification and Validation,
Input Modeling,
Output Analysis,
Comparing Systems,
NPE Tools
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