Telecommunications Performance Engineering

by Roger Ackerley

Overview

Service quality and cost control are critical success factors for the communications industry and performance engineering is vital in achieving both. It enables service quality to be 'built in' to products; cost control is achieved by addressing potential problems at an early stage, before the costs to remedy problems rise and large failure costs are incurred.

Telecommunications Performance Engineering includes both introductory material, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject area, and in-depth case studies illustrating the latest tools and techniques. Performance engineering throughout the whole life-cycle is discussed, including modelling, measurement, testing and capacity management. In addition, the book covers cutting-edge information and technology on the designs used to protect the performance levels of overloaded networks. A wide range of system and network applications are covered, from broadband, IP networks, and intelligent networks providing telemarketing services to combined Web/telephony systems, operational support systems and call centres. This book is essential reading for communications managers, designers, performance engineers and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863413414
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	10/28/2003
Series:	Telecommunications , #7
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Roger Ackerley (AFIMA, MSc, BA(Oxon)) is one of the UK's leading performance engineers. He obtained his Masters degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has applied his skills to a wide range of applications for over 20 years working for BT where he currently leads the Critical Solutions team within BT Exact's Performance Engineering Department. Roger is known internationally in his field through his participation at conferences both as presenter and session chair and through his standards work. His papers cover a range of subjects from hysteresis effects in networks to overall grade-of-service.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Performance - A Retrospective View
• Chapter 2: Traffic Characterisation and Modelling
• Chapter 3: Potential Interactions between IP-Dial and Voice Traffic
• Chapter 4: Techniques for the Study of QoS in IP Networks
• Chapter 5: Performance Modelling - What, Why, When and How
• Chapter 6: Performance Testing - A Case Study of a Combined Web/Telephony System
• Chapter 7: Adaptive Network Overload Controls
• Chapter 8: Realising Effective Intelligent Network Overload Controls
• Chapter 9: Capacity Planning for Carrier-Scale IP Networks
• Chapter 10: Performance Monitoring for In-Life Capacity Management
• Chapter 11: Performance health check
• Chapter 12: Performance and the Broadband Window