The kick-off meeting will be held Wed Aug 28 09:15 in room E-262, Electro E building.
See the schedule.
2007-08-28

Norwegian title

Trafikk og pålitelighet, laboratorium i verktøy og metodikk

Learning Goal

To become familiar with tools and methods for studying traffic- and dependability properties of communications technology systems, and to acquire skills.

Content

Discrete event simulation and analytical methods are used to evaluate solutions and understand phenomena in ICT systems. Complexity and need for processing power require use of powerful tools. In this subject the emphasis is on Simula/DEMOS as simulation language and Mathematica as computational tool. The subject encompasses development of simulation models, structuring, measurements, computation of confidence intervals, and presentation of results. Solution of analytical models in Mathematica, postprocessing of data, and graphical presentation of results. There will be given laboratory tasks to demonstrate typical problems.

Lab. reports

• Reports shall be prepared as required in the lab. definition document.
• At least three hand-ins are compulsory.
  (Although this is not expected to become a problem, it should, for formal reasons, be mentioned that all hand-ins must be in a passable condition to be accepted.)
• In addition a final report, based on the hand-ins from Tasks 1-4, shall be handed in.
  The eventual grading of the theme will be based solely on this final lab. report. 

Useful literature

[1]	Peder J. Emstad, Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik and Laurent Paquereau, Dependability and performance in information and communication systems. Fundamentals, 272 pages, 2007. (for sale at Gnist Tapir)
[2]	Graham Birtwistle, DEMOS - A system for Discrete Event Modelling on Simula, 2003. (printed version for sale at the Department of Telematics, office B211)

Required background

• TTM4110 Dependability and Performance with Discrete Event Simulation
• AND TTM4120 Dependable Systems
  OR TTM4155 Teletraffic Theory