Analytic and simulation methods in computer network design

Abstract

The Seventies are here and so are computer networks! The time sharing industry dominated the Sixties and it appears that computer networks will play a similar role in the Seventies. The need has now arisen for many of these time-shared systems to share each others' resources by coupling them together over a communication network thereby creating a computer network. The mini-computer will serve an important role here as the sophisticated terminal as well as, perhaps, the message switching computer in our networks.