Topics:
Traffic characterization for broadband services, packetized voice and video, MMPP, Fluid flow model, effective bandwidth: large buffers, bufferless multiplexing, CDE approximation and application.
Traffic schedulers - work conservative and non-work conservative types, comparison.
Admission and access control in broadband networks, GCRA, traffic shaping - leaky bucket technique, token bucket rate control, pricing.
Feedback based flow control, rate and credit based techniques, congestion control, selective cell discarding, EFCI.
Network design and management, single link multirate call-level models, resource sharing, virtual partitioning, optimization.
An introduction to Internetworking over ATM.