Quality of Service in Communications (ST 2021)

Quality-of-Service of Communication Systems

Lecture and exercise will be offered as online course via StudOn this semester. You can find the corresponding link below.

Details

Type of Course Lecture (2 SWS) + Exercise (2 SWS)
ECTS Credits 2,5 + 2,5
Language English

We introduce the term quality-of-service (QoS), discuss important approaches to achieve certain degrees of QoS, and show how the implementation in computer networks. Then a number of methodologies to assess and design systems with respect to their QoS:

  • network planning and optimization,

  • network simulation,

  • stochastic analysis (Markov chains, non-Markovian models, queuing systems),

  • deterministic analysis with network calculus to determine QoS guarantees

  • measurements (hardware, software, and hybrid monitoring, benchmarks).

All methods are illustrated by examples.

Kurose, Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet. 6th Ed., Addison Wesley, 2013

W. Stallings. Data and Computer Communications, 10th ed., Pearson Education, 2014

W. Stallings. Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud, Pearson Education, 2016

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