ECE/CS 541: COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Reading Assignment #1 – Read By Monday Sept 11, 2006
The next section of the course will be on Markov Processes. You should read the relevant material from
several textbooks to complement what is presented in class. You are encouraged to read other books, but
I list below the sections in several books that would be useful to you. Full references are in the class bib-
liography.
1. Allen, Chapter 4, “Stochastic Processes”.
2. Kant, Chapter 5, “Elementary Stochastic Analysis”, Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
3. Molloy, Chapter 5, “Markov Models”
4. Kulkarni, Chapters 2-6 related to what we will be covering in the next 2 weeks, Chapter 5, 2, and 3
will be covered first.
5. Trivedi, Chapters 6 and 7, and 8.
Since we do not have a single textbook for the course, reading appropriate sections from several text-
books is an important complement to the lectures.
We would be happy to answer any questions you have while reading during office hours or by appoint-
ment.