QoS and Traffic Management in IP & ATM Networks

With traffic on the Internet booming not only for traditional
data applications but also as a means for sending voice and
video, today's networks experience congestion. When applied
effectively, traffic management techniques can relieve
performance degradation caused by congestion.

What's uncommon-in fact, absent-is an intuitive, easy-to-understand book on traffic management techniques that can help you make the LAN, WAN, and Internet run smoothly.

Written by one of the most trusted names in ATM traffic management, QoS & Traffic Management in IP & ATM Networks clearly and carefully takes you step-by-step through the underlying principles of traffic management and the processes of applying that knowledge to solve the full range of real-world networking problems.

This unique resource covers:

• Service policy and the capacity of traffic systems -including how effective network designers trade off performance
  against overall system costs
  
• Convergence - with detailed guidance on how to get voice and data to work together in an IP or ATM network
  
• Queuing theory and its relationship to traffic management - complete with a tutorial and introduction to advanced techniques
  
• New traffic management techniques that will be used in ISP backbones of the twenty-first century
  
• A thorough review of routing protocols and how to address constraints like capacity requirements and QoS

Accessible to both novice and advanced network administrators and engineers, QoS & Traffic Management in IP & ATM Networks is the sensible, one-stop solution to today's frustrating network traffic jams.

Table of contents

Preface

Part 1: Traffic Management in Communication Networks

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2: Review of Circuit-and packet-Switched Networks

Chapter 3: Capacity, Throughput, and Service

Part 2: Quality of Service(QoS) and Traffic Control

Chapter 4: Perception is Reality

Chapter 5: Quality of Service(QoS) Defined

Chapter 6: Delivering QoS via Traffic Control

Part 3: The Traffic Phenomenon

Chapter 7: Randomness in Our Everyday Lives

Chapter 8: Random Traffic Models

Chapter 9: Advanced Traffic Models

Part 4: Queuing Principles

Chapter 10: Queuing-A Fancy Name for Waiting in Line

Chapter 11: Basic Queuing Theory Applied

Chapter 12: Intermediate Queuing Theory Applied

Part 5: Congestion Detection and Control

Chapter 13: Traffic Jam Up Ahead!

Chapter 14: Open-Loop Congestion Control

Chapter 15: Closed-Loop Congestion Control

Part 6: Routing and Network Design

Chapter 16: Routing Background and Concepts

Chapter 17: Routing Algorithms

Chapter 18: Performance of Networks

Part 7: Putting It All Together

Chapter 19: Traffic Engineering Applied

Chapter 20: Designing Real-World Networks

Chapter 21: Where to Go from here

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