1. Objectives
?Revisiting the fundamental experimental design and analysis
?Emphasizing the details of testing and simulation tools for network research
?Examining the workload model and experimental design suitable for network research
?Practical training of the theory learned in real-world network problems

2. Syllabus
?Principle of Performance Evaluation (1 week)
?Workload and measurement technique (2 weeks)
?Simulation Tool: Network Simulator Version 2 (ns-2) (5 weeks)
?Testing Tool: dummynet (5 weeks)
?Experimental Design and Analysis (2 weeks)
?Case Studies (2 weeks)

3. Class material
?R. Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling, Wiley- Interscience, New York, NY, April 1991
?The VINT Project, ns-2 Online Manual, http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
?Luigi Rizzo, dummynet Online Manual: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
?A number of performance-oriented network papers

4. Grading
Midterm 20%, final 20%, homework 20%, term project 40%