6.976 Network Algorithms (H)

Professor Devavrat Shah, devavrat@mit.edu
Prereq.: 6.431 or 6.436 or 6.262; and 6.255 or 6.251 or 6.854; or permisison of instructor
4-0-8

This subject does not qualify as an Engineering Concentration subject.

Introduction to modern theory of networks and their design, emphasizing modeling, algorithm development, and performance analysis. Topics include: load balancing and routing; congestion control; scheduling; data storage and diffusion; and simulation methods and data-structures for network devices.