Stochastic Networks

Examples class: 3pm on Wednesday 16 January 2013 in MR5.

Example class: 5pm on Monday 19 November in MR5.
Work to be done: exercises in Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Office hour: 5-6pm on Monday 12 November in D1.14.

Office hour: 3-4:30pm on Tuesday 30 October in D1.14.

Examples class: 2-3pm on Wednesday 24 October in MR5.
Work to be done: exercises in Chapters 1 and 2, and Sections 3.1-3.4.

Course description
Preliminary reading:
- Markov revision: Markov Chains, by James Norris, Sections 1.7, 2.4. Dated, but may be of use: Chapter 1 of Reversibility and Stochastic Networks.
Read Chapter 1 and Appendix A of the Course text.
Read Chapter 2 and Appendix B.
Complete the Exercises in Chapters 1 and 2.
Revision on Lagrange multipliers: Richard Weber's notes, Sections 1 and 2.1.
See Poisson Processes for more on this topic.
Read Chapter 3 and complete the Exercises in Chapter 3, and so on!
Those interested in the Random Access section of the course may like to look at Leslie Ann Goldberg's Notes on Contention Resolution.