Introduction to wireless network architectures: cellular networks, wireless local area networks, multi-hop networks and their theoretical foundations. Network middleware systems and application specific processes. Networking metrics, computing paradigms, Key issues for performance monitoring. Basic evaluation concepts of end-to-end networking system (including rate adaptation, metrics for End-to-End (E2E) performance, Power and resource availability restrictions figuring power allocation for rate-adaptive parallel channels (i.e. Waterfilling); power control for fixed-rate independent channels (Centralized linear solution; Foschini-Miljanic distributed algorithm). Performance analysis of remotely hosted communications, metrics interpretation in the process layer. QoS metrics and requirements of delay sensitive wireless Internet Applications. Monitoring and controlling the network threads/processes and their interoperational characteristics, virtualization, code migration, consistency and replication issues as well as fundamental performance measures related to the Radio Access Network (RAN), including Coverage, Capacity, Bit and Frame Error-Rates in a Wireless system. Efficient management of network resources through Interprocess Programming Modules and Middleware programming (example of Routing mechanisms in wireless systems such as greedy routing and different solutions for avoiding routing holes in intermittently connected mobile networks with the use of transparent Middleware). Capacity analysis and evaluation. Queuing Analysis in a Communication System. Performance Criteria and Output Metrics. Comparison of Analytical Models with Simulations. Programming the Network with application specific processes. Monitor through programming of certain parameters* and the associated metrics. Capacity planning. Benchmarking. Monitoring. Data presentation. Experimental design and data analysis. Core network design and traffic engineering. Distributed/Centralized Core Network Design. End-to-End Delay Analysis for VoIP, End-to-End Mobile-TCP Throughput.
- editing-lecturer: Jeremiah Onunga