Tools for Teaching Network Planning

Algirdas Pakstas
London Metropolitan University

Tutorial is providing overview of using tools for teaching Network Planning. This is done using module IM213 Network Planning and Management (Dept. Computing, Communications Technology and Mathematics, London Metropolitan University) as example. Tutorial consists of four parts. The first part of the Tutorial is devoted to the general overview of the IM213 set up. The second part is presenting introduction to network design problem with particular attention paid to Performability and Dependability issues. The third part looks at the use of WAN design tool Delite which is demonstrated using actual Laboratory assignment. Part four is devoted to presenting Network Simulator ns-2 and Network Animator nam.

Biography:

Prof. Algirdas Pakstas received his M.Sc. in Radiophysics and Electronics in 1980 from the Irkutsk State University,  Ph.D. in Systems Programming in 1987 from the Institute of Control Sciences. Currently he is with the London Metropolitan University, Department of Computing, Communications Technology and Mathematics where he is doing research the area of Communications Software.

Engineering and is teaching courses Network Planning and Management and Computer Systems and Networks. He is active in the following IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees: TC on Communications Softwareand TC on Multimedia Communications. He has published 3 research monographs (2 authored and 1 edited) and more than 140 other publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Communications Magazine, Cybernetics and Systems Analysis, Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences and CompSIS.