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Asian School on Computer
Science 2002: Internet Performance |
Date: 2 December, 2002
Time Schedule: 9.00-17.00
Venue: Asian Institute of
Technology
Pathumthani, THAILAND
Registration Fee: 3,000 THB
Registration Deadline :
20 November 2002
Enquiries: Patcharee Basu (yoo@cs.ait.ac.th) ,+662 – 5246619
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Asian School on
Computer Science 2002: Internet Performance
- An
introduction to Performance evaluation with application to communication
networks
Speaker: Professor Alain Jean-Marie,
University of Montpellier 2, France
This tutorial is an introduction to
the field of Performance Evaluation, with applications to problems concerning
the Quality of Service in the Internet, and communication networks in general.
The tutorial will first review the basic mathematical tools and results used in
the modeling of telecommunication systems: stochastic processes, Markov Chains,
and the theory of queues. Then, as illustrations and applications, we will
detail models of several algorithms or protocols used in networks: routing
algorithms; flow control mechanisms, including TCP; mechanisms for service differentiation,
including IntServ and DiffServ.
Tentative list of topics:
- Introduction: methodology of performance evaluation in networks
- The basics of random processes
- Markov chains
- The theory of queues: description, measures of performance, general
properties
- Stochastic models of network traffic
- Application 1: capacity and route planning in networks
- Application 2: estimating loss probabilities in networks
- Application 3: analysis of the differential service in the Internet
- Application 4: analysis of flow control mechanisms in networks
- Application 5: calculation of performance guarantees with the Network
Calculus
About the Speaker:
Alain Jean-Marie received the Matrise Es-Sciences in Mathematics, and the
Doctorat de 3me cycle, from the University of Paris XI at Orsay, in 1985 and
1987 respectively. During 1988-89, he was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the
University of Maryland. From 1987 to 1999, he has been a member of the
performance evaluation group at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. He is now
professor at the University of Montpellier, France. His research interests
include modeling and performance evaluation for real-time systems and
communication networks, control theory, analysis of algorithms and parallel
computing.