CDA6530: Performance Models of Computers and Networks

CDA 6530: Performance Models of Computers and Networks

Fall 2014

For powerpoint slides of lectures, you can goto: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~czou/CDA6530-14/ppt/ to download the corresponding ppt files. Some math notations may not be correctly displayed due to different fonts on different computers.

The "written notes" are what the instructor writes on tablet PC whiteboard in each class.

1. (08/18) Class overview, review of probability (intro, prob-1, written notes)
2. (08/20) Probability (continue, written notes)
3. (08/25) Probability continue; Review of random vairable (random, written notes)
4. (08/27) Random variable continue (written notes); Explaining of Homework 1 (Homework 1 is assigned and due Sept. 7th via WebCourse)
5. (09/03) Examples of random variable (written notes)
6. (09/08) Introduction of Matlab (matlab) (written notes)
7. (09/10) Generating random number and random variables (generate-rv, written notes, matlab code of loadedDice.m); programming project 1 is assigned and due Sept. 17th
8. (09/15) Generate r.v. (continue); Continue examples of random variables (written notes)
9. (09/17) Contiue examples of random variables (written notes)
10. (09/22) Matlab Simulink for numerical solutions of differential equations (simple worm model simulink example, RC circut example, written notes); Programming project 2 is assigned and due Oct. 1st midnight (tips on how to present figures)
11. (09/24) Explaining solution to project 1 and further explain Project 2 (written notes)
12. (09/29) Continue examples of random variable (written notes, simulink function module)
13. (10/01) Stochastic process: Counting, Bernulli (stochastic, written notes)
14. (10/06) Stochastic process (continue) (written notes)
15. (10/13) Discrete-time simulation (discreteTime-simulation); programming project 3 is assgined and due Oct. 26th midnight (written notes)
16. (10/15) Stochastic process (continue)
17. (10/20) Explain of project 3 (project3QA); stochastic process (continue) (written notes)
18. (10/22) Hidden-Markov model (HMM-intro) (written notes)
19. (10/27) Basic queuing theory: M/M/1 queue (queue-1) (written notes)
20. (10/29) Basic queuing theory (continue); explain solution to programming project 3 (written notes)
21. (11/05) M/M/*/* queue (continue)
22. (11/10) Queuing theory examples (queue-examples); basic queuing network (queue-network) (written notes)
23. (11/12) Discrete-event simulation (discreteEvent-simulation, matlab code,written notes)
24. (11/17) Example of discrete-event simulation of three caller problem (DiscreteEventSimulation-example, Matlab code1, Matlab code 2); Programming project 4 is released and due Nov. 30th (written notes)
25. (11/19) Mid-term review (mid-review); Statistical analysis of simulated data (confidence-interval, matlab code); Transform theory (transform) (written notes)
26. (11/24) Take-home midterm exam
27. (11/26) NS2 tutorial: part 1 (NS2-tutorial, twoNode example code, 2UDP3Nodes)
28. (12/01) Explanation of Programming project 4; NS2 tutorial: part 2 ( TCP3Source, ringLinkfailure)