1. TCOM 601 (Advanced Network, Modeling and Analysis) Instructor: Saswati Sarkar (swati@ee.upenn.edu) Course Web Page: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~swati/

2. Timings Class Monday: 4:30-7:30, 212 Moore Instructor Office Hours: 2:30-4:30, Monday, 360 Moore (can schedule meetings other times by appointment)

3. Reference Materials Class Notes, Papers referred in the class

4. Prerequisites TCOM 501

5. Grading Homeworks once every month (40 % of the grade) 2 weeks time for each Term Project: 2 (60 % of the grade) individual Consultation allowed but no copying

6. Course Content Switching: Input queueing, Output Queueing, Shared memory, Combined input/output queueing. Maximum throughput in input queued switches, emulating output queueing with input queueing via speedup. Building larger switches: ClOS networks, banyan networks etc. Markov decision process and application in resource allocation (memory,bandwidth allocation). Buffer Management: Pushout, Threshold, Random Early Detection, Sharing mechanisms, (Complete partitioning, complete sharing, hybrids), coupling buffer management and scheduling.

7. Course Content Traffic Management and Call Admission: Traffic characterization, Traffic shaping, Admission control, Statistical multiplexing, Effective Bandwidth. Scheduling : Fair queueing, Rate controlled service disciplines. TCP modeling