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| Preface | |
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| Background | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Brief Networking History | |
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| The Need for Speed and Quality of Service | |
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| Advanced TCP/IP and ATM Networks | |
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| Outline of the Book | |
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| Internet and Web Resources | |
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| Protocols and the TCP/IP Suite | |
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| The Need for a Protocol Architecture | |
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| The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture | |
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| The OSI Model | |
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| Internetworking | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| TCP and IP | |
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| Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) | |
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| User Datagram Protocol | |
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| The Internet Protocol (IP) | |
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| IPv6 | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| High-Speed Networks | |
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| Frame Relay | |
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| Packet-Switching Networks | |
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| Frame Relay Networks | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode | |
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| ATM Protocol Architecture | |
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| ATM Logical Connections | |
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| ATM Cells | |
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| ATM Service Categories | |
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| ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| High-Speed LANs | |
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| The Emergence of High-Speed LANs | |
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| Ethernet | |
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| Fibre Channel | |
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| Wireless LANs | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Performance Modeling and Estimation | |
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| Overview of Probability and Stochastic Process | |
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| Probability | |
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| Random Variables | |
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| Stochastic Processes | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| Queuing Analysis | |
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| How Queues Behave--A Simple Example | |
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| Why Queuing Analysis | |
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| Queuing Models | |
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| Single-Server Queues | |
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| Multiserver Queues | |
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| Examples | |
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| Queues with Priorities | |
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| Networks of Queues | |
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| Other Queuing Models | |
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| Estimating Model Parameters | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| Self-Similar Traffic | |
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| Self-Similarity | |
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| Self-Similar Data Traffic | |
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| Examples of Self-Similar Data Traffic | |
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| Performance Implications of Self-Similarity | |
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| Modeling and Estimation of Self-Similar Data Traffic | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| The Hurst Self-Similarity Parameter | |
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| Congestion and Traffic Management | |
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| Congestion Control in Data Networks and Internets | |
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| Effects of Congestion | |
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| Congestion and Control | |
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| Traffic Management | |
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| Congestion Control in Packet-Switching Networks | |
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| Frame Relay Congestion Control | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Link-Level Flow and Error Control | |
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| The Need for Flow and Error Control | |
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| Link Control Mechanisms | |
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| ARQ Performance | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Problems | |
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| High-Level Data Link Control | |
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| TCP Traffic Control | |
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| TCP Flow Control | |
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| TCP Congestion Control | |
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| Performance of TCP Over ATM | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM Networks | |
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| Requirements for ATM Traffic and Congestion Control | |
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| ATM Traffic-Related Attributes | |
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| Traffic Management Framework | |
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| Traffic Control | |
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| ABR Traffic Management | |
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| GFR Traffic Management | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Problems | |
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| Internet Routing | |
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| Overview of Graph Theory and Least-Cost Paths | |
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| Elementary Concepts of Graph Theory | |
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| Shortest Path Length Determination | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Problems | |
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| Interior Routing Protocols | |
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| Internet Routing Principles | |
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| Distance-Vector Protocol: RIP | |
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| Link-State Protocol: OSPF | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| Exterior Routing Protocols and Multicast | |
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| Path-Vector Protocols: BGP and IDRP | |
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| Multicasting | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| Quality of Service in IP Networks | |
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| Integrated and Differentiated Services | |
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| Integrated Services Architecture (ISA) | |
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| Queuing Discipline | |
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| Random Early Detection | |
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| Differentiated Services | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Real-Time Traffic | |
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| Protocols for QoS Support | |
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| Resource Reservation: RSVP | |
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| Multiprotocol Label Switching | |
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| Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Compression | |
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| Overview of Information Theory | |
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| Information and Entropy | |
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| Coding | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Problems | |
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| Lossless Compression | |
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| Run-Length Encoding Techniques | |
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| Facsimile Compression | |
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| Arithmetic Coding | |
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| String-Matching Algorithms | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Site | |
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| Problems | |
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| Lossy Compression | |
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| Discrete Cosine Transform | |
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| Wavelet Compression | |
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| JPEG Image Compression | |
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| MPEG Video Compression | |
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| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
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| Problems | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Standards and Standards-Setting Organizations | |
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| The Importance of Standards | |
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| Standards and Regulation | |
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| Internet Standards and the Internet Society | |
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| The International Telecommunications Union | |
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| IEEE 802 Standards | |
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| Sockets | |
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| Versions of Sockets | |
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| Sockets, Socket Descriptors, Ports, and Connection | |
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| The Client/Server Model of Communication | |
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| Sockets Elements | |
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| Stream and Datagram Sockets | |
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| Run-Time Program Control | |
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| Remote Execution of a Windows Console Application | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |