Need some tips in reading academic paper?

Question

What are the basic knowledge (i.e. calculus, queueing theory) should I have in order to understand the following paper :


Abhay K. Parekh and Robert G. Gallager, A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Single Node Case"

Alan Demers, Srinivasan Keshav, Scott Shenker. Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm.

Thank you very much

If possible, please list out the title of the books or journals that you can recommend me to refer.

Answer 1

If you need to ask something like that, then you are probably not ready.
Technical papers present a solution to a very specific problem, so you need to have a fairly good understanding of the field.
Here is the usual flow of studying:
a) Books on the subject (say Queuing Theory)
b) Tutorial papers (usually referenced by the book)
c) Specialized topics (usually referenced by the Tutorial papers or other papers)

The first paper title reads like a a networking paper where you need to know basics of computer architectures, flow control, network services

In the second paper you probably need to understand queuing theory (markov chains, probability theory, stochastic processing, etc.)