Introduction to Data Communications (S1, 2014)

Performance of Communication Systems

Lecture Material

Lecture Notes: View, Print, Source
Examples of traffic and information types: View, Source
Example calculations of delay, overhead and throughput: View, Source
Examples of delay concepts: View, Print, Source

Readings

Stallings: chapter 1
Forouzan: chapter 1
Kurose: chapter 1

Videos

This year: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Last year: Part 1, Part 2

Notes

Notes from the lecture are below. Hover over the image to see a description; right-click and view the image to zoom in. Alternatively you can download a zip archive of all the image or a printable PDF of the notes.

Calculation of raw and compressed video size File download throughput calculation Experimental setup of client and server with HTTP Data rate, throughput and efficiency calculations HTTP response overhead Ping delay for different packet sizes Example of link delay Example of satellite network delay

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