Designed for ICT professionals involved in the planning, design, development, testing and operation of network services, this book is ideal for self-teaching. It will help readers evaluate a network situation and identify the most important aspects to be monitored and analysed. The author provides a detailed step by step methodological approach to network design from the analysis of the initial network requirements to architecture design, modelling, simulation and evaluation, with a special focus on statistical and queuing models. The chapters are structured as a series of independent modules that can be combined for designing university courses. Practice exercises are given for selected chapters, and case studies will take the reader through the whole network design process.

• Chapter 1: Internetworking and network fundamentals
• Chapter 2: Routing in computer networks
• Chapter 3: Internet Protocol addressing
• Chapter 4: Network analysis, architecture, and design
• Chapter 5: Network-requirement analysis
• Chapter 6: Network flow analysis
• Chapter 7: Network performance evaluation
• Chapter 8: Network simulation models
• Chapter 9: Statistical models in network simulation
• Chapter 10: Probabilities in performance analysis
• Chapter 11: Random variables in network modeling and simulation
• Chapter 12: Discrete random variables and their applications
• Chapter 13: Continuous random variables and their applications
• Chapter 14: Random variable generation in network simulation
• Chapter 15: Queuing theory for network modeling and performance evaluation
• Chapter 16: 6 Single-server queues - network behaviors and analysis
• Chapter 17: Multi-server queues - network behaviors and analysis