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.

Quoc-Tuan Vien is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK. His research interests include physical layer security, network coding, non-orthogonal multiple access, energy harvesting, spectrum sensing, device-to-device communications, relay networks, cognitive radio networks, heterogeneous networks, wireless network-on-chip, public safety networks, and cloud radio access networks. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the HEA. He is an Editor of International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and a Guest Editor of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He is also a TPC member and reviewer of many IEEE conferences and journals.

• 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