High-performance communication networks

Features

• Provides the most recent information on
  • wide and local area networks, including WDM and optical networks, Fast and Gigabit Ethernets
  • access networks, such as cable modems and DSL;
  • approaches for quality-differentiated services in IP and ATM networks.
• Examines the Internet, including proposed advances for improved performance and quality of service.
• Presents a comprehensive discussion of wireless networks for voice and data.
• Explains the economic factors and technical tradeoffs that guide network development.
• Derives (in self-contained sections) the most important mathematical results of network performance

Table of contents

Preface
1 Overview
1.1 History of Communication Networks
1.1.1 Telephone Networks
1.1.2 Computer Networks
1.1.3 Cable Television Networks
1.1.4 Wireless Networks
1.2 Networking Principles
1.2.1 Digitization
1.2.2 Economies of Scale
1.2.3 Network Externalities
1.2.4 Service Integration
1.3 Future Networks
1.3.1 The Internet
1.3.2 Pure ATM Network
1.3.3 Cable TV
1.3.4 Wireless
1.3.5 And the Winner Is...
1.4 Summary
1.5 Notes
1.6 Problems
2 Network Services and Layered Architectures
2.1 Applications
2.1.1 World Wide Web
2.1.2 Audio or Video Streams
2.1.3 Voice over Packets and
Videoconferences
2.1.4 Networked Games
2.1.5 Client/Server
2.2 Traffic Characterization and Quality of Service
2.2.1 Constant Bit Rate
2.2.2 Variable Bit Rate
2.2.3 Messages
2.2.4 Other Requirements
2.3 Network Services
2.3.1 Connection-Oriented Service
2.3.2 Connectionless Service
2.4 High-Performance Networks
2.4.1 Traffic Increase
2.4.2 High-Performance
2.5 Network Elements
2.5.1 Principal Network Elements
2.5.2 Network Elements and Service
Characteristics
2.5.3 Examples
2.6 Basic Network Mechanisms
2.6.1 Multiplexing
2.6.2 Switching
2.6.3 Error Control
2.6.4 Flow Control
2.6.5 Congestion Control
2.6.6 Resource Allocation
2.7 Layered Architecture
2.7.1 Layers
2.7.2 Implementation of Layers
2.8 Open Data Network Model
2.9 Network Architectures
2.10 Network Bottlenecks
2.11 Summary
2.12 Notes
2.13 Problems
Packet-Switched Networks
3.1 OSI and IP Models
3.1.1 Layer 1: Physical Layer
3.1.2 Layer 2: Data Link Layer
3.1.3 Sublayer 2a: Media Access Control
3.1.4 Sublayer 2b: Logical Link Control
3.1.5 Layer 3: Network Layer
3.1.6 Layer 4: Transport Layer
3.1.7 Layer 5: Session Layer
3.1.8 Layer 6: Presentation Layer
3.1.9 Layer 7: Application Layer
3.1.10 Summary
3.2 Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)
3.2.1 Physical Layer
3.2.2 MAC
3.2.3 LLC
3.2.4 LAN Interconnection
3.3 Token Ring (IEEE 802.5)
3.3.1 Physical Layer
3.3.2 MAC
3.3.3 LLC
3.4 FDDI
3.5 DQDB
3.6 Frame Relay
3.7 SMDS
3.7.1 Internetworking with SMDS
3.8 Summary
3.9 Notes
3.10 Problems
4 The Internet and TCP/IP Networks
4.1 The Internet
4.2 Overview of Internet Protocols
4.3 Internet Protocol
4.3.1 IPv4
4.3.2 Multicast IP
4.3.3 Reliable Multicast
4.3.4 Mobile IP
4.3.5 IPv6
4.4 TCP and UDP
4.4.1 Applications
4.4.2 FTP
4.4.3 SMTP, rlogin, TFTP, and HTTP
4.5 Internet Success and Limitation
4.6 Performance of TCP/IP Networks
4.6.1 Window Adjustment in TCP
4.6.2 Suggested Improvements for TCP
4.6.3 Suggested Improvements for IP
4.6.4 Queuing Algorithms
4.6.5 Label Switching
4.6.6 Suggested Improvements for Other Protocols
4.7 Summary
4.8 Notes
4.9 Problems
5 Circuit-Switched Networks
5.1 Performance of Circuit-Switched Networks
5.2 SONET
5.2.1 SONET Frame Structure
5.3 Dense Wave-Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
5.4 Fiber to the Home
5.4.1 The Optical Loop Carrier System
5.4.2 Passive Optical Networks (PONs)
5.4.3 Passive Photonic Loop (PPL)
5.4.4 Hybrid Scheme
5.5 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
5.5.1 ISDN
5.5.2 ADSL
5.6 Intelligent Networks
5.6.1 Service Examples
5.6.2 Intelligent Network Architecture
5.6.3 Functional Components
5.7 CATV
5.7.1 Layout
5.7.2 CATV Layered Network
5.7.3 Services over CATV
5.7.4 MPEG
5.8 Summary
5.9 Notes
5.10 Problems
6 Asynchronous Transfer Mode
6.1 Main Features of ATM
6.1.1 Connection-Oriented Service
6.1.2 Fixed Cell Size
6.1.3 Statistical Multiplexing
6.1.4 Allocating Resources
6.2 Addressing, Signaling, and Routing
6.2.1 ATM Addressing
6.2.2 Signaling
6.2.3 PNNI Routing
6.3 ATM Header Structure
6.3.1 VCI and VPI
6.3.2 Other Fields
6.3.3 Reserved VCI/VPI
6.4 ATM Adaptation Layer
6.4.1 Type 1
6.4.2 Type 2
6.4.3 Type 3/4
6.4.4 Type 5
6.5 Management and Control
6.5.1 Fault Management
6.5.2 Traffic and Congestion Control
6.5.3 Network Status Monitoring and
Configuration
6.5.4 User/Network Signaling
6.6 BISDN
6.7 Internetworking with ATM
6.7.1 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over AAL5
6.7.2 LAN Emulation over ATM
6.7.3 IP over ATM
6.7.4 Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)
6.7.5 FR and SMDS over ATM
6.8 Summary
6.9 Notes
6.10 Problems
7 Wireless Networks
7.1 Introduction
7.1.1 History of Wireless Networks
7.1.2 Wireless Data Vision
7.1.3 Technical Challenges
7.2 The Wireless Channel
7.2.1 Path Loss
7.2.2 Shadow Fading
7.2.3 Multipath Flat-Fading and
Intersymbol Interference
7.2.4 Doppler Frequency Shift
7.2.5 Interference
7.2.6 Infrared versus Radio
7.2.7 Capacity Limits of Wireless
Channels
7.3 Link Level Design
7.3.1 Modulation Techniques
7.3.2 Channel Coding and Link Layer Retransmission
7.3.3 Flat-Fading Countermeasures
7.3.4 Intersymbol Interference
Countermeasures
7.4 Channel Access
7.4.1 Multiple Access
7.4.2 Random Access
7.4.3 Spectral Etiquette
7.5 Network Design
7.5.1 Architecture
7.5.2 Mobility Management
7.5.3 Network Reliability
7.5.4 Internetworking
7.5.5 Security
7.5.6 A New Paradigm for Wireless
Network Design
7.6 Wireless Networks Today
7.6.1 Cellular Telephone Systems
7.6.2 Cordless Phones
7.6.3 Wireless LANs
7.6.4 Wide Area Wireless Data Services
7.6.5 Paging Systems
7.6.6 Satellite Networks
7.6.7 Other Wireless Systems and Applications
7.7 Future Systems and Standards
7.7.1 Wireless LANs
7.7.2 Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
7.7.3 IMT-2000
7.7.4 High-Speed Digital Cellular
7.7.5 Fixed Wireless Access
7.7.6 HomeRF and Bluetooth
7.8 Summary
7.9 Notes
7.10 Problems
8 Control of Networks
8.1 Objectives and Methods of Control
8.1.1 Overview
8.1.2 Control Methods
8.1.3 Time Scales
8.1.4 Examples
8.1.5 Quality of Service
8.2 Circuit-Switched Networks
8.2.1 Blocking
8.2.2 Routing Optimization
8.3 Datagram Networks
8.3.1 Queuing Model
8.3.2 Key Queuing Result
8.3.3 Routing Optimization
8.3.4 Congestion Control
8.4 ATM Networks
8.4.1 Control Problems
8.4.2 Deterministic Approaches
8.4.3 Statistical Procedures
8.4.4 Deterministic or Statistical?
8.5 Summary
8.6 Notes
8.7 Problems
9 Control of Networks: Mathematical Background
9.1 Markov Chains
9.1.1 Overview
9.1.2 Discrete Time
9.1.3 Continuous Time
9.2 Circuit-Switched Networks
9.2.1 Single Switch
9.2.2 Network
9.3 Datagram Networks
9.3.1 M/M/1 Queue
9.3.2 Discrete-Time Queue
9.3.3 Jackson Network
9.3.4 Buffer Occupancy for an MMF Source
9.3.5 Insensitivity of Blocking Probability
9.4 ATM Networks
9.4.1 Deterministic Approaches
9.4.2 Large Deviations of iid Random
Variables
9.4.3 Straight-Line Large Deviations
9.4.4 Large Deviation of a Queue
9.4.5 Bahadur-Rao Theorem
9.5 Summary
9.6 Notes
9.7 Problems
10 Network Economics
10.1 Derived Dem