CSE-642 Computer Systems Performance

Fall 2009 - Semester (091)

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Final Exam 7:00 PM   February 6, 2010   Saturday   22-134  

Course Syllabus:

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Lecture Notes:

The main reference for the course is the textbook and the handouts distributed in class. These notes are merely as summary:

- Introduction to Telecommunications

- Review of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

- Random Processes and Introduction to Markov Chains

- Birth and Death Processes and Applications To Queueing Theory

- Network of Queues - Product Form Solution

- Markov Chains: Applications to Multiplexing and Access and class notes

- M/G/1 - class notes
 

 You can download the errata for the textbook from here.

Assignments:

• Assignment 1: Oct 19, 2009 - due date  in class - Nov 2nd, 2009. Code (and output) for normal probability plot. solution key.
• Assignment 2: Nov 14, 2009 - due date Dec 7th, 2009 (in class). solution key.
• Assignment 3: Dec 19th, 2009 - due date Jan 3rd, 2010 (in class). Refer to Example 4.11 solution (excel sheet or excel sheet) - Solution Key - Sample solution for bonus problem. See sample solution by Al-Utaibi (especially for Problem 1 and Problem 4).

Quizzes and Major Exams:

• Quiz01: Oct 13th, 2009 - Due Sat Oct 17, 2009. solution.
• Quiz02: Nov 2nd, 2009 - Due Sat Nov7th, 2009. solution.
• Quiz03: Nov 14th, 2009 - Due Wed Nov 18th, 2009. solution.
• Midterm: Dec 10th, 2009 - solution.
• Quiz04: Dec 19th, 2009 - Due Mon Dec 21st, 2009. solution. Sample solution by Qahtan.
• Quiz05: Jan 4th, 2010 - Due Jan 11th, 2010. solution.

Course Project:

Details for the course project will announced later.

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