Product Description: This book provides an adaptive control theory perspective on designing congestion controls for packet-switching networks. Relevant to a wide range of disciplines and industries, including the music industry, computers, image trading, and virtual groups, the text extensively discusses source-oriented, or end-to-end, congestion control algorithms...read more

Product Description: As other complex systems in social and natural sciences as well as in engineering, the Internet is hard to understand from a technical point of view. Packet switched networks defy analytical modeling. The Internet is an outstanding and challenging case because of its fast development, unparalleled heterogeneity and the inherent lack of measurement and monitoring mechanisms in its core conception...read more

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Product Description: This book describes, analyzes, and recommends traffic engineering (TE) and quality of service (QoS) optimization methods for integrated voice/data dynamic routing networks. These functions control a network's response to traffic demands and other stimuli, such as link failures or node failures...read more

As the Internet becomes increasingly heterogeneous, the issue of congestion control becomes ever more important. In order to maintain good network performance, mechanisms must be provided to prevent the network from being congested for any significant period of time. Michael Welzl describes the background and concepts of Internet congestion control, in an accessible and easily comprehensible format. Throughout the book, not just the how, but the why of complex technologies including the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Active Queue Management are explained. The text also gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in congestion control research and an insight into the future. Network Congestion Control: Presents comprehensive, easy-to-read documentation on the advanced topic of congestion control without heavy maths. Aims to give a thorough understanding of the evolution of Internet congestion control: how TCP works, why it works the way it does, and why some congestion control concepts failed for the Internet. Explains the Chiu/Jain vector diagrams and introduces a new method of using these diagrams for analysis, teaching & design. Elaborates on how the theory of congestion control impacts on the practicalities of service delivery. Includes an appendix with examples/problems to assist learning. Provides an accompanying website with Java tools for teaching congestion control, as well as examples, links to code and projects/bibliography. This invaluable text will provide academics and researchers in computer science, electrical engineering and communications networking, as well as students on advanced networking and Internet courses, with a thorough understanding of the current state and future evolution of Internet congestion control. Network administrators and Internet service and applications providers will also find Network Congestion Control a comprehensive, accessible self-teach tool.

Product Description: The last two years have seen significant developments in the standardization of GMPLS and its implementation in optical and other networks. GMPLS: Architecture and Applications brings you completely up to date, providing the practical information you need to put the growing set of GMPLS-supported services to work and manage them effectively...read more

Product Description: Multi-Protocol Label Switch (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) are key technologies for next-generation IP backbone networks. Until now, however, engineers have been forced to search for technical papers on this subject and read them in an ad-hoc manner...read more

Product Description: The authors of this text here offer practical solutions for overcoming network congestion by showing how to manage the radio networks used by cellular telephones.

Product Description: From the basics to the most advanced quality-of-service (QoS) concepts, this book aims to offer professionals an in-depth understanding of the latest technical issues raised by the emergence of new types of internet services. It provides end-to-end QoS guidance for real-time multimedia communications over the internet, and shows where and when it is preferable to use certain techniques for QoS support in networks and internet traffic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Today's wireless communications engineers working with the latest radio terminals are faced with a challenging new problem in communication terminal design in that those terminals have the ability ot process a wide variety of communcations standards...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: MPLS and Label-Switching Networks, Second Edition is the authoritative resource for planning, implementing, and succeeding with MPLS technologies. Renowned consultant Uyless Black illuminates the final, official MPLS standard through practical examples and detailed diagrams, offering detailed guidance on maximizing network reliability, utilization, and performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This timely book provides a new, unified approach to radio resource management (RRM). It offers you a comprehensive understanding of the interrelationship between important RRM factors such as power control, channel allocation and link performance to help you design more efficient wireless systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Guaranteeing performance and prioritizing data across the Internet may seem nearly impossible because of an increasing number of variables that can affect and undermine service. But if you're involved in developing and implementing streaming video or voice, or other time-sensitive Internet applications, you understand exactly what's at stake in establishing Quality of Service (QoS) and recognize the benefits it will bring to your company...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "A critical guide through the tangled thicket of hype, assumptions, and facts about Quality of Service in IP Networks." - Scott Bradner, Senior Consultant at Harvard and Transport Area Director, IETF The next wave of Internet services will include voice and video as well as data...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Traffic management and quality of service are techniques which, when applied to LAN, WAN and the Internet, facilitate the smooth flow of information. This text explains how to make convergence work - getting voice and data to flow without bottling up the network...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Differentiated Services is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards effort to create a simple scheme which provides a range of quality of service (QoS) levels. It is one of the few technologies to date that will enable networks to handle traffic in a specific manner to meet the service demands of particular applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP) is the Internet protocol being developed so that the Internet can deliver quality of service (QoS), prioritising data and reserving it, if necessary, to meet a schedule. Now, from the author team that developed the RSVP PC implementation adopted by Microsoft for Windows NT and Windows, comes this book, which demystifies RSVP and the Internet Services model for QoS...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an in-depth study of the various technologies, services, and performance issues associated with networked multi-media systems. Prepared by 28 industry and academic leaders worldwide, this reference helps communications engineers understand the impact of fast-moving broadband communications technology on networked multimedia services, and how multimedia applications affect network design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A guide to the technical and financial management of ATM networks. Also included in the text is guidance on managing non-ATM high-performance broadband networks. In the MCGRAW-HILL COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS series. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The objective of this practical guide is to describe the techniques for management of traffic flows in local area networks to enable the reader to implement a traffic management strategy which will show immediate and significant benefits...read more