High Speed Networks and Internets

For years, networking professionals, designers, and engineers have depended on William Stallings' High Speed Networks and Internets for the understanding they need to build leading-edge products and services. Now, Stallings has thoroughly updated his classic to reflect the newest technologies, trends, and standards. This edition's extensive new coverage includes a comprehensive review of approaches to Quality of Service, as well as in-depth discussions of network design for high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks.Stallings systematically addresses the issues associated with carrying large volumes of traffic with diverse QoS requirements over networks operating at exceptionally high data rates. He covers a wide range of design issues related to high-speed networks, including congestion control, unicast and multicast routing, multimedia compression and wavelets, and much more. This edition includes a completely new QoS section covering Differentiated Services, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Resource Reservation Protocol, and more. The book also includes thorough coverage of high-speed networking technologies such as frame relay, ATM, and Gigabit Ethhernet; network performance modeling and estimation; traffic management; Internet routing; and more.For all developers, systems engineers, network designers, students, and others involved in designing data communications and networking products or services.

Contents

I. BACKGROUND.

1. Introduction.
2. Protocols and Architecture.
3. TCP and IP.

II. HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS.

4. Frame Relay.
5. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
6. High-Speed LANs.

III. PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ESTIMATION.

7. Overview of Probability and Stochastic Processes.
8. Queuing Analysis.
9. Self-Similar Traffic.

IV. CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

10. Congestion Control in Data Networks and Internets.
11. Link-Level Flow and Error Control.
12. TCP Traffic Control.
13. Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM Networks.

V. INTERNET ROUTING.

14. Overview of Graph Theory and Least-Cost Paths.
15. Interior Routing Protocols.

VI. QUALITY OF SERVICE IN IP NETWORKS.

16. Exterior Routing Protocols and Multicast.
17. Integrated and Differentiated Services.
18. Protocols for QOS Support.

VII. COMPRESSION.

19. Overview of Information Theory.
20. Lossless Compression.
21. Lossy Compression.

Appendix A: Standards and Standards-Setting Organizations.
Appendix B: Sockets Programming.
Glossary.
References.
Index.