High Speed Networks and Internets : Performance

Table of Content
Preface Part One Background
Introduction
Protocols and the TCP/IP Suite
TCP and IP
Part Two High-Speed Networks
Frame Relay
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
High-Speed LANs
Part Three Performance Modeling And Estimation
Overview of Probability and Stochastic Process
Queuing Analysis
Self-Similar Traffic
Part Four Congestion and Traffic Management
Congestion Control in Data Networks and Internets
Link-Level Flow and Error Control
TCP Traffic Control
Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM Networks
Part Five Internet Routing
Overview of Graph Theory and Least-Cost Paths
Interior Routing Protocols
Exterior Routing Protocols and Multicast
Part Six Quality of Service in IP Networks
Integrated and Differentiated Services
Protocols for QoS Support
Part Seven Compression
Overview of Information Theory
Lossless Compression
Lossy Compression
Appendices
Appendix A: Standards and Standards—Setting Organizations
Appendix B: Sockets
Glossary
References
Index
Salient Features
Unified coverage of integrated and differentiated services.
Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of TCP performance.
Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols including (RSVP), (MPLS), (RTP), and the use of Ipv6.
Unified treatment of congestion in data networks: packet-switching, frame relay, ATM networks, and IP-based internets.
Broad and detailed coverage of routing, unicast, and multicast.
Comprehensive coverage of ATM: basic technology and the newest traffic control standards.
Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background enabling understanding of the issues related to high-speed network performance and design.
Up-to-date treatment of gigabit Ethernet.
The first treatment of self-similar traffic for performance assessment in a textbook on networks (Explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic and shows the performance implications and how to estimate performance parameters.)
Up-to-date coverage of compression. (A comprehensive survey.)
Coverage of gigabit networks. Gigabit design issues permeate the book.