William Stallings

Published September, 1997 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1998, 576 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-525965-7
$65.00

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High Speed Networks: TCP/IP and ATM Design presents integrated, up-to-date coverage of key issues in high-speed TCP/IP and ATM network design. Surveys developments in high-speed networks to provide a solid grasp of technical design issues related to carrying large volumes of traffic with differing quality-of-service requirements at very high data rates.

Covering basic technology as well as new traffic control standards for the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) in WANs and LANs, this book presents a range of related topics. Among these are: next-generation Internet technology; high-speed (100 Mbps) and Gigabit Ethernet; TCP performance design issues; unicast and multicast routing; and compression. Also covers self- similar traffic with an explanation of the mathematics behind it for the first time in any book. In addition, it presents math essential for understanding the issues of high-speed network performance and design. There is a web page (http://www.shore.net/~ws/HsNet.html) for the book.



High-level-overview of cutting-edge network and intranet design using high-speed technologies like ATM over TCP/IP.

• Bestselling Author.

• Coverage of high-speed routing for multimedia, how to manage traffic flow, and compression techniques for maximizing throughout.

• Presents comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of TCP performance design issues, including congestion control and TCP over ATM.

1. Introduction.

I. PROTOCOL AND NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS.

2. Protocols and the TCP/IP Suite.
3. Data Networks.

II. HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS.

4. Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
5. High-Speed LANs.

III. PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ESTIMATION.

6. Overview of Probability and Stochastic Processes.
7. Queuing Analysis.
8. Self-similar Traffic.

IV. END-SYSTEM TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

9. Link-level Flow and Error Control.
10. Transport-Level Traffic Control.

V. NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

11. Internetwork Traffic Management.
12. Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM Networks.

VI. INTERNET ROUTING.

13. Overview of Graph Theory and Least-Cost Paths.
14. Routing Protocols.
15. Routing for High-Speed and Multimedia Traffic.

VII. COMPRESSION.

16. Overview of Information Theory.
17. Lossless Compression.
18. Lossy Compression.
Glossary.
References.
Index.