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| Introduction | |
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| The OSI Reference Model | |
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| What's a Public Network | |
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| Networking Basics | |
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| Standards Bodies | |
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| The International Telecommunications Union | |
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| ATM Forum | |
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| Internet Engineering Task Force | |
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| Mini Glossary | |
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| IP, the Internet Protocol, and Its Friends and Relations | |
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| What Is the Internet, Anyway? And How Big Is It? History of the Internet | |
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| Overview of the Internet Protocols | |
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| Internet Addresses and Packet Formats | |
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| The IP Protocol | |
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| Routers | |
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| Maximum Transmission Unit | |
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| Fragments | |
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| TCP. Segments, MSS, and MTU. Sequence Numbers and ACKs | |
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| Ports | |
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| Connection establishment | |
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| Data Flow | |
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| Connection Termination | |
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| Other Header Flags | |
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| User Datagram Protocol | |
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| Ethernet, Encapsulation, and ARP. Upper Protocol Layers | |
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| TCP-Based Protocols | |
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| UDP-Based Protocols | |
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| The Future of IP: IP Version 6 | |
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| 128 bit Addresses | |
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| Dynamic Address Assignment | |
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| Labeled Flows | |
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| Multicast Support | |
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| Transition Plans | |
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| Summary | |
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| Physical Media: SONET and Others | |
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| Optical Fiber Communications | |
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| Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) | |
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| SONET Flavors | |
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| Operations and Maintenance | |
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| Survivable Rings | |
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| Unshielded Twisted Pair | |
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| Other Media | |
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| Summary | |
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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode | |
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| Broadband Integrated Services Network | |
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| B-ISDN Reference Model | |
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| ATM Concepts | |
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| What's Asynchronous About It? | |
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| Hierarchical Network Structure | |
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| Cells | |
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| Connection-Oriented | |
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| What Cells Look Like | |
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| Switches | |
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| Virtual Circuits | |
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| ATM Adaptation Layers | |
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| What Is an AAL? AAL1 | |
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| AAL3/4 | |
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| AAL5 | |
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| Addresses | |
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| Signaling | |
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| SAAL and SSCOP | |
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| Signaling Messages | |
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| Signaling Operations | |
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| Network-to-Network Interface | |
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| Permanent Virtual Circuits | |
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| Summary | |
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| Classical IP Over ATM | |
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| Assumptions of CIP | |
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| MTU Size for IP Over ATM | |
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| Encapsulation of Datagrams in ATM PDUs | |
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| Classical IP with PVCs | |
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| Signaling the Circuits | |
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| The ARP Problem | |
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| Establishing the Circuit | |
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| Circuit Maintenance and Aging | |
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| Classical IP Pros and Cons | |
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| Summary | |
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| LAN Emulation | |
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| The LANE Pieces | |
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| LAN Emulation Client | |
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| LAN Emulation Server | |
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| Broadcast and Unknown Server | |
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| LAN Emulation Configuration Server | |
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| LANE Control Connections | |
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| LANE Operation | |
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| Initialization | |
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| Data Flows | |
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| Shutdown | |
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| LANE Bridges | |
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| Pros and Cons | |
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| LANE Moves Ahead | |
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| LANE 2.0 | |
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| MPOA | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing the Mess | |
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| What Is Network Management? Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) | |
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| SNMP Data Structures | |
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| SNMP Protocol | |
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| Interim Local Management Interface | |
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| Textual Conventions | |
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| Link Management | |
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| Address Registration | |
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| Service Registry | |
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| ILMI Procedures | |
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| Routing in ATM Networks | |
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| NHRP | |
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| What About Firewalls? | |
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| Summary | |
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| IP Multicast | |
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| How Multicast Works | |
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| The Mbone | |
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| Multicast support in ATM. ATM Hardware Support | |
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| ATM Software Support | |
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| IP Multicast implementation for Classical IP | |
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| MARS needs Packets! Multicast Clusters | |
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| MARS messages | |
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| Signalling Support | |
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| Joining and Leaving the Cluster | |
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| Joining a group | |
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| Leaving a group | |
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| BACKUP Mars | |
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| Extended Encapsulation | |
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| Multicast Implementation for LANE | |
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| Summary | |
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| Traffic Management | |
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| Traffic Classes | |
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| How can Traffic be Degraded? Traffic Control | |
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| Requirements | |
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| Congestion Control Schemes | |
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| Algorithms | |
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| RSVP | |
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| Self Similar Traffic | |
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| Queueing Theory and Poisson Models | |
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| Theoretical versus Measured traffic characteristics | |
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| Implications for control | |
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| Summary | |
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| Making it Go Fast | |
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| What does "Slow" mean, or, How to Measure TCP Performance | |
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| ttcp. netperf | |
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| Why it's Slow | |
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| Protocol Overhead | |
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| Machine Architectures | |
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| Long Fat pipes | |
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| Slowstart Considered Harmful | |
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| Deadlock | |
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| Sequence Number Wrapping | |
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| Big Windows | |
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| Machine and OS Architecture for High Performance | |
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| The Afterburner | |
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| Protocol Engine | |
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| Protocol Stack Improvements | |
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| Summary | |
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| Looking toward the Future - Research Directions | |
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| Practical WAN Experience: Real Life Testbeds | |
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| BLANCA | |
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| Canarie's NTN | |
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| MAGIC-II | |
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| BAGNet | |
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| SPARTAN | |
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| Next Gener | |