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Valid for year : 2003
 
TSDT82 Information networks, 6 ECTS credits.
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For:   D   I   Ii   IT   Y  

  Area of Education: Engineering

Subject area: Electrical Engineering/Telecommunication/Information Networks

  Advancement level (A-D): D

Aim:
The course aims at the understanding of how an information network works and of how the choice of parameters affect its performance. More information at http://www.dtr.isy.liu.se/dtr/TSDT82

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
TAMS21 Statistics, first course TSDT45 Telecommunications

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:


Course contents:
Introduction: ARQ, protocol initialization. Queueing models: M/M/1, M/M/m, other Markov systems. Statistic multiplexing: splitting algorithms, Aloha, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA multiaccess methods. Packet Radio. Routing methods. Flow control methods. Future Information Networks.

Course literature:
Bertsekas och Gallager: "Data Networks", 2nd ed., ISBN 0-13-200916-1.

Examination:
Home exercises and oral examination
Laboratory Assignments
3 p
1 p
 



Course language is English or Swedish.
Department offering the course: ISY.
Director of Studies: Lasse Alfredsson
Examiner: George Liu
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Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 04/08/2003