Suggested Preparatory Readings for CSI 516
This page gives hints for students who want to review background material
before taking Computer Communication Networks, CSI 516 in the
Department of Computer Science
at University at Albany .
- Hennessy and Patterson,
Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach,
Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
- Chapter 1 : Performance Analysis (especially
Sections 1.4 and 1.5).
- Chapter 6 : I/O and Performance Analysis
(especially Sections 6.3 and 6.4).
- Chapter 7 : Network Architecture
- Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Performance Analysis ,
John Wiley and Sons, 1992.
- Chapter 1 : Introduction to performance evaluation
- Chapter 2 : Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Chapter 3 : Selecting Techniques and Metrics
- Chapter 10 : Data Presentation
- Chapter 12 : Summarizing Measured Data
- Chapter 16 : Introduction to Experiment Design
- Chapter 24 : Introduction to Simulation
- Chapter 25 : Analyzing Simulation Results
- Chapter 30 : Introduction to Queueing Theory
- Chapter 31 : Analysis of a Single Queue
- Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Applied Operating Systems
Concepts , John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
- Chapter 14 : Network Structures
- Chapter 20 : The Unix Operating System
- W. Richard Stevens, Advanced Programming in the
Unix Environment , Addison Wesley, 1991.
- Chapter 12 : Advanced I/O
- Chapter 15 : Advanced Interprocess Communication
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