Principles of Performance Engineering for Telecommunication and Information Systems: No.35 (IEE Telecommunications) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852968833 ISBN 13: 9780852968833

Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1996

Synopsis

This text describes the basic theory of performance engineering (essentially the control of traffic in communications) and its application to both circuit and packet-switched systems. Applications such as reliability and tolerance are also discussed.

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About the Author

Mohammed Ghanbari received an MSc in Telecommunications and a Ph.D. in Electronics from the University of Essex. After almost 10 years' experience in radio and television broadcasting, he joined the Electronic Systems Engineering (ESE) Department at the University of Essex in 1986. Charles Hughes was a deputy director of the British Telecom Laboratories until 1985 and then a professor of Telecommunications at the University of Essex until his retirement in 1993. Since then he has continued to carry out consultancy and research work, together with occasional lecturing. Mark Sinclair received an MA in Electrical Sciences from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an MSc in Telecommunication and Information Systems from the University of Essex. After six years working on System X at Plessey and GPT, he joined the ESE Department at the University of Essex in 1991. Julian Eade graduated from Oxford and was awarded MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Essex. He lectured in the ESE Department at the University of Essex until 1991, when he set up his own consultancy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0852968833
• ISBN 13: 9780852968833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Ghanbari M., Hughes C. J., Sinclair M.C., Eade J.P.