NETWORK SYSTEM DESIGN
ELE5NSD
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
The subject uses network modeling and simulation as a tool for students to analyse and design a wide a range of network technologies. The lectures refreshes students on some network technologies and their applications. The labs introduces students to OPNET modeler, a network simulation software; modeling fundamentals of networks and protocols; designing and building of networks in OPNET Modeler; an understanding of the limitations in a simulation environment. Students also analyse applications based traffic generation and its impact on a given network design providing them with skills to have an analytical approach to network design, engineering and operations.
School: School Engineering&Mathematical Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: John Devlin
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: ELE4NET
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: ELE5NDE
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Describe the fundamentals and applications of various network technologies.
- Activities:
- Lectures equip students with fundamentals of the technologies used in that week's lab. Lab exercises queries student understanding.
02. Characterise network hardware and traffic flows.
- Activities:
- Labs use packet capture software to instruct students on characterising real traffic flows and underlying networks.
03. Analyse the basics of modeling and the limitations of a simulation environment.
- Activities:
- lab exercises demonstrates the differences between the results obtained from a discrete event simulation and that of real world.