| Article ID: | iaor19952259 |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 2 |
| End Page Number: | 11 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
| Journal: | Matimya Matematika |
| Authors: | Abaya Efren F. |
| Keywords: | graphs, queues: applications, computers: information |
Various mathematical tools are used to model a computer network, or the processes taking place within a network, in order to explain and to predict its behavior. This paper gives an overview of how three areas of mathematics-graph theory, queuing theory, and information theory-are applied in data communications.