Course Overview
The objective of this lecture is to introduce the art of performance-related modeling of complex distributed systems. We will use worst-case assumptions in order to obtain robust results.
Organization
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Exam: |
see details below |
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Lecture: |
Fridays, 10:00-11:30 in 11/262 |
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Contact: |
Dr. Steffen Bondorf |
Exam
- The exam will be oral. Each student will be allocated a time slot for his/her exam.
- We offer three dates to choose from
- 23 February 2017 or
- 04 April 2017 or
- 26 April 2017
- Please get a time slot from our secretary Mrs. Gerber. Her office is in building 36, room 430.
- This is not the official exam registration!
- It only reserves your time slot with using order to avoid collisions.
- Time slots are assigned first come, first served.
- It is your responsibility to officially register your exam at the examination office.
- Note, that there are official deadlines to do so.
Lecture Material
The lecture material is only accessible from within the university network (131.246.*). Please use SSH or VPN for remote access.
| Slides | Script | Additional Material | |
| 01_Organization | |||
| 02_Motivation_Background | |||
| 03_MinPlusPrimer (updated) | Script 2016/11/11 (v2) | Script 2016/11/18 (v3) | Changelog |
| 04_DNC-Curves (updated) | Script 2016/12/02 and 2016/12/09 (v2) | Changelog | |
| 05_DNC-Bounds | Script 2016/12/16 and 2017/01/06 (v3) | Changelog | Bounds_(animated) PPTX(*) ODP(**) |
| 06_Concatenation | Script 2017/01/06 and 2017/01/13 | ||
| 07_Scheduling (updated) | Script 2017/01/13 to 27 (v2) | Changelog | |
| 08-1_NetworkAnalysis1 (2nd update fixes indices on slides 94 and 104) | animated_slides PPTX(*) ODP(**) |
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| 08-2_NetworkAnalysis2 | Script 2017/02/03 and 10 (v2) | Changelog | |
| 09-References | |||
(*) In case you do not have Microsoft Office, you can use the RHRK's windows terminal server: http://tukl.de/gdwjt
(**) The ODP versions for OpenOffice or LibreOffice have bugs due to conversion from PPTX. For instance, the deconvolution symbol is depicted as a box. They have been uploaded upon demand by students. Please refer to the PPTX versions if in doubt.
Exercise Material
We strongly recommend you to work on the exercises, since they are crucial to get a good grasp on math-heavy lectures.
Moreover, exercise content can and will be part of exam.
| Exercise 1 | Announcement (2016/11/11) | Exercise Sheet (2016/11/18) | Class Hours: Tue, Nov 29, 15h30 |
| Material | Fri, Dec 02, 15h30 (rescheduled) | ||
| both are held in room 36/438 | |||
| Exercise 2 | Announced in lecture 2016/12/16 | Exercise Sheet (2016/12/23) | Class Hours: Fri, Jan 06, 15h30 |
| Correction for the Friday class: | In Assignment 2, the distance | Tue, Jan 10, 15h30 | |
| between arrivals is fixed at the period p. | both are held in room 36/438 | ||
| Therefore, we get instances (n-1)p-2j. | |||
| Exercise 3 | Announced in lecture 2017/01/27 | Exercise Sheet | Class Hours: Fri, Feb 03, 15h30 |
| Tue, Feb 07, 15h30 | |||
| both are held in room 36/438 |
Literature
- Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Patrick Thiran. Network Calculus. Springer, 2001. (Also →available online)
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