Home > Store

High-Speed Networks and Internets: Performance and Quality of Service, 2nd Edition

Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon.

High-Speed Networks and Internets: Performance and Quality of Service, 2nd Edition

Book

  • Sorry, this book is no longer in print.
Not for Sale

About

Features

  • NEW - Reorganization of the text—Provides a better grouping of topics.
    • Offers a more natural flow of topic organization and coverage. Ex.___

  • NEW - Part VI: Quality of Service in IP Networks.
    • Provides a unified and up-to-date discussion of this important topic, including coverage of Differentiated Services and Multiprotocol Label Switching. Ex.___

  • NEW - New background chapter on TCP and IP.
    • Provides unified discussion of the information vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks. Ex.___

  • NEW - Separate chapter devoted to congestion control.
    • Teaches about congestion control techniques. Ex.___

  • NEW - Thorough coverage of Differentiated Services (DS).
    • Offers up-to-date coverage of these developments that allow the Internet to support a variety of multimedia and time-sensitive traffic. Ex.___

  • NEW - Many expanded and new topics.
    • Discussions of issues such as Guaranteed Frame Relay (GFR), high-speed LANs, frame relay, and wavelet compression exposes readers to current developments. Ex.___

  • NEW - Introduction to Sockets programming with programming project assignments.
    • Provides excellent hands-on projects. Ex.___

  • The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the key issues of high speed TCP/IP networks.
    • Solid coverage of issues such as TCP performance design issues and congestion control. Ex.___

  • Exclusive treatment of self-similar traffic.
    • Unlike any other text, explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic, its performance implications, and how to estimate performance parameters. Ex.___

  • Up-to-date survey of the key issues of ATM networks.
    • Discusses the basic technology of ATM including the newest ATM traffic controls. Ex.___

  • Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background.
    • Provides students with the necessary math as needed in a non-threatening way. Ex.___

  • Parts IV through VII of the book are relatively independent.
    • Flexible design allows instructors to customize the book to the needs of their course. Ex.___

  • Unified coverage of integrated (IS) and differentiated services (DS).
    • Provides a detailed discussion and comparison of these two principal approaches to providing Quality of Service over IP-based internets. Ex.___

  • Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols.
    • Provides students with an integrated treatment of standards such as RSVP, MPLS, RTP, and IPv6 and how they fit together. Ex.___

  • Broad and detailed coverage of routing.
    • Offers an integrated treatment of both unicast routing and multicast routing. Ex.___

  • Coverage of 10 gigabit Ethernet networks.
    • Provides coverage of high-speed network design issues needed for networks in the gigabit range as well as in the 10s and 100s of megabit per second range. Ex.___

  • 185 homework problems.
    • Offers students the opportunity for review and reinforcement of material in each chapter. Ex.___

Description

  • Copyright 2002
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-032221-0
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-032221-0

William Stallings offers the most comprehensive technical book to address a wide range of design issues of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks in print to date. High-Speed Networks and Internets presents both the professional and advanced student an up-to-date survey of key issues. The Companion Website and the author's Web page offer unmatched support for students and instructors. The book features the prominent use of figures and tables and an up-to-date bibliography.

In this second edition, this award-winning and best-selling author steps up to the leading edge of integrated coverage of key issues in the design of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks to include the following topics:

  • Unified coverage of integrated and differentiated services.
  • Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of TCP performance.
  • Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols including (RSVP), (MPLS), (RTP), and the use of Ipv6.
  • Unified treatment of congestion in data networks; packet-switching, frame relay, ATM networks, and IP-based internets.
  • Broad and detailed coverage of routing, unicast, and multicast.
  • Comprehensive coverage of ATM; basic technology and the newest traffic control standards.
  • Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background enabling understanding of the issues related to high-speed network performance and design.
  • Up-to-date treatment of gigabit Ethernet.
  • The first treatment of self-similar traffic for performance assessment in a textbook on networks (Explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic and shows the performance implications and how to estimate performance parameters.)
  • Up-to-date coverage of compression. (A comprehensive survey.)
  • Coverage of gigabit networks. Gigabit design issues permeate the book.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

I. BACKGROUND.

1. Introduction.

A Brief Networking History. The Need for Speed and Quality of Service. Advanced TCP/IP and ATM Networks. Outline of the Book. Appendix lA: Internet and Web Resources.

2. Protocols and Architecture.

The Need for a Protocol Architecture. The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture. The OSI Model. Internetworking. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

3. TCP and IP.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). User Datagram Protocol. The Internet Protocol (IP). IPv6. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

II. HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS.

4. Frame Relay.

Packet-Switching Networks. Frame Relay Networks. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

5. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).

ATM Protocol Architecture. ATM Logical Connections. ATM Cells. ATM Service Categories. ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL). Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

6. High-Speed LANs.

The Emergence of High-Speed LANs. Ethernet. Fibre Channel. Wireless LANs. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

III. PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ESTIMATION.

7. Overview of Probability and Stochastic Processes.

Probability. Random Variables. Stochastic Processes. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

8. Queuing Analysis.

How Queues Behave—A Simple Example. Why Queuing Analysis. Queuing Models. Single-Server Queues. Multiserver Queues. Examples. Queues with Priorities. Networks of Queues. Other Queuing Models. Estimating Model Parameters. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

9. Self-Similar Traffic.

Self-Similarity. Self-Similar Data Traffic. Examples of Self-Similar Data Traffic. Performance Implications of Self-Similarity. Modeling and Estimation of Self-Similar Data Traffic. Recommended Reading and Web Site. Appendix 9A: The Hurst Self-Similarity Parameter.

IV. CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT.

10. Congestion Control in Data Networks and Internets.

Effects of Congestion. Congestion and Control. Traffic Management. Congestion Control in Packet-Switching Networks. Frame Relay Congestion Control. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

11. Link-Level Flow and Error Control.

The Need for Flow and Error Control. Link Control Mechanisms. ARQ Performance. Recommended Reading. Appendix 11A: High-Level Data Link Control.

12. TCP Traffic Control.

TCP Flow Control. TCP Congestion Control. Performance of TCP Over ATM. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

13. Traffic and Congestion Control in ATM Networks.

Requirements for ATM Traffic and Congestion Control. ATM Traffic-Related Attributes. Traffic Management Framework. Traffic Control. ABR Traffic Management. GFR Traffic Management. Recommended Reading.

V. INTERNET ROUTING.

14. Overview of Graph Theory and Least-Cost Paths.

Elementary Concepts of Graph Theory. Shortest Path Length Determination. Recommended Reading.

15. Interior Routing Protocols.

Internet Routing Principles. Distance-Vector Protocol: RIP. Link-State Protocol: OSPF. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

VI. QUALITY OF SERVICE IN IP NETWORKS.

16. Exterior Routing Protocols and Multicast.

Path-Vector Protocols: BGP and IDRP. Multicasting. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

17. Integrated and Differentiated Services.

Integrated Services Architecture (ISA). Queuing Discipline. Random Early Detection. Differentiated Services. Recommended Reading and Web Sites. Appendix 17A: Real-Time Traffic.

18. Protocols for QOS Support.

Resource Reservation: RSVP. Multiprotocol Label Switching. Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP). Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

VII. COMPRESSION.

19. Overview of Information Theory.

Information and Entropy. Coding. Recommended Reading.

20. Lossless Compression.

Run-Length Encoding Techniques. Facsimile Compression. Arithmetic Coding. String-Matching Algorithms. Recommended Reading and Web Site.

21. Lossy Compression.

Discrete Cosine Transform. Wavelet Compression. JPEG Image Compression. MPEG Video Compression. Recommended Reading and Web Sites.

Appendix A: Standards and Standards-Setting Organizations.

The Importance of Standards. Standards and Regulation. Internet Standards and the Internet Society. The International Telecommunications Union. IEEE 802 Standards.

Appendix B: Sockets Programming.

Versions of Sockets. Sockets, Socket Descriptors, Ports, and Connection. The Client/Server Model of Communication. Sockets Elements. Stream and Datagram Sockets. Run-Time Program Control. Remote Execution of a Windows Console Application.

Glossary.
References.
Index.

Preface

This book aims at helping to disentangle from an immense mass of material the crucial issues and cardinal decisions. Throughout I have set myself to explain faithfully and to the best of my ability what happened and why.
The World Crisis, Winston Churchill

BACKGROUND

High-speed networks now dominate both the wide-area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) markets. In the WAN market, two related trench have appeared. Public and private data networks have evolved from packet switching networks in the 10s and 100s of kbps, to frame relay networks operating at up to 2 Mbps, and now to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM networks operating at 155 Mbps or more. For the Internet and private corporate internets, data rates have also soared, with one noteworthy milestone being the construction of a 155-Mbps backbone in 1996.

For many years, the most common LAN was the 10-Mbps shared Ethernet. Then came the switched Ethernet, which offers a dedicated 10 Mbps to each end system. This was followed by Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbp a and now Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gbps Ethernet. Recent years have also seen the introduction of Fibre Channel LANs with speeds up to 3.2 Gbps and wireless LANs with speeds up to 54 Mbps.

This rapid introduction of high-speed networks has spurred the development of new applications and has in turn been driven by the popularity o. those applications. Key driving forces have been the increasing use of stir image and video data in applications and the popularity of the World Wide Web.

OBJECTIVES

High-speed networks, including gigabit networks, form the focus of the book. Design issues related to two types of networks occupy our attention: internets based on the Internet Protocol (IP) and the entire TCP/IP protocol suite, and ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks. These two networking technologies dominate the high-speed scene and share many common design approaches.

The objective of this book is to provide an up-to-date survey of developments in this area. Central problems that confront the network designer are the need to support multimedia and real-time traffic, the need to control congestion, and the need to provide different levels of quality of service (QoS) to different applications.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This book is intended for both a professional and an academic audience. For the professional interested in this field, the book serves as a basic reference volume and is suitable for self-study.

As a textbook, it is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The book treats a number of advanced topics and provides a brief survey of the required elementary topics. After Parts One and Two, the parts are relatively independent. Fewer parts could be covered for a shorter course, and the parts can be covered in any order.

PLAN OF THE BOOK

The book is divided into seven parts:

  • Part One. Background: Provides a brief survey of fundamental principles, with coverage of TCP/IP and internetworking.
  • Part Two. High-Speed Networks: Provides an overview of frame relay networks, ATM networks, and high-speed LANs.
  • Part Three. Performance Modeling and Estimation: The modeling of traffic flow is important both for network design and configuration and for the request of network services. This part provides a tutorial on the use of queuing analysis to model throughput, delay, and buffer requirements. There is increasing evidence that much of the traffic on high-speed networks is self-similar, for which the traditional queuing analysis does not apply. The nature of self-similar traffic, and modeling approaches, are examined.
  • Part Four. Congestion and Traffic Management: Begins with a discussion of congestion control issues and design approaches for networks and internets. The relatively simple case of link level flow control is used to introduce issues of end-to-end flow control. This part then discusses end-to-end performance parameters and techniques used by TCP to achieve high throughput and to manage congestion. Finally, the part deals with traffic management and congestion control in ATM networks
  • Part Five. Internet Routing: Covers the major approaches to routing, including distance-vector, link-state, and path-vector routing, and examines multicast routing.
  • Part Six. Quality of Service in IP Networks: Within an IP-based network, techniques are needed to control congestion and to provide the desired QoS to active applications. This part surveys those techniques, beginning with a discussion of integrated and differentiated services. Then, important protocols that relate to QoS are examined, including RSVP, MLPS, and RTP.
  • Part Seven. Compression: Covers both lossless and lossy compression techniques.

In addition, the book includes an extensive glossary, a list of frequently used acronyms, and a bibliography. Each chapter includes problems, suggestions for further reading, and pointers to relevant Web sites.

INTERNET SERVICES FOR INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS

There is a Web page for this book that provides support for students and instructors. The page includes links to relevant sites, transparency masters of figures and tables in the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, PowerPoint slides, and signup information for the book's internet mailing list. The Web page is at WilliamStallings.com/HsNet2e.html; see Chapter 1 for more details. An Internet mailing list has been set up so that instructors using this book can exchange information, suggestions, and questions with each other and with the author. As soon as typos or other errors are discovered, an errata list for this book will be available at WilliamStallings.com. Finally, I maintain the Computer Science Student Resource Site at WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html.

SOCKETS PROGRAMMING

The book includes a description of Sockets (Appendix B), and the instructor's manual includes a set of programming projects. The appendix includes a concise overview of Sockets, a discussion of the importance of this facility and a short primer on how to use Sockets, as well as pointers for getting more information on the Web. Sockets programming is an "easy" topic and one that can result in very satisfying hands-on projects for students.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION

In the four years since the first edition of this book was published, the field has seen continued innovations and improvements. In this edition, I try to capture these changes while maintaining a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field. To begin the process of revision, the first edition of this book was extensively reviewed by a number of professors who teach the subject and by professionals working in the field. The result is that, in many places, the narrative has been clarified and tightened, and illustrations have been improved. Also, a number of new "field-tested" problems have been added.

Beyond these refinements to improve pedagogy and user friendliness, the technical content of the book has been updated throughout, to reflect the ongoing changes in this exciting field. In addition, the book has been reorganized to provide a better grouping of topics. Some of the most noteworthy changes are the following:

  • Congestion control: A separate chapter is now devoted to this topic. This unified presentation clarifies the issues involved.
  • Differentiated services: There have been substantial developments, since the publication of the first edition in enhancements to the Internet to support a variety of multimedia and time-sensitive traffic. The most important development, and perhaps the most important vehicle for providing QoS in IP-based networks is differentiated services (DS). This edition provides thorough coverage of DS.
  • Guaranteed frame rate (GFR): Since the first edition, a new ATM service has been standardized: GFR. GFR is designed specifically to support IP backbone subnetworks. This edition provides an explanation of GFR and examines the mechanisms underlying the GFR service.
  • Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS): MPLS has emerged as a fundamentally important technology in the Internet and is covered in this edition.
  • TCP/IP details: A new background chapter on TCP and IP has been added, pulling together material scattered throughout the first edition. This material is vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks.
  • High-speed LANs: The chapter on high-speed LANs has been extensively updated and revised. The material on Ethernet now includes 10-Gbps Ethernet. The chapter now covers Fibre Channel and high-speed wireless LANs.
  • Frame relay: Despite the importance and growing acceptance of ATM, frame relay remains the most widely used high-speed WAN technology. Accordingly, the coverage of the frame relay protocol and frame relay congestion control is expanded in this edition.
  • Wavelet compression: Wavelet compression has become increasingly popular and is covered in this edition.

Updates

Submit Errata

More Information

InformIT Promotional Mailings & Special Offers

I would like to receive exclusive offers and hear about products from InformIT and its family of brands. I can unsubscribe at any time.

Overview


Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about products and services that can be purchased through this site.

This privacy notice provides an overview of our commitment to privacy and describes how we collect, protect, use and share personal information collected through this site. Please note that other Pearson websites and online products and services have their own separate privacy policies.

Collection and Use of Information


To conduct business and deliver products and services, Pearson collects and uses personal information in several ways in connection with this site, including:

Questions and Inquiries

For inquiries and questions, we collect the inquiry or question, together with name, contact details (email address, phone number and mailing address) and any other additional information voluntarily submitted to us through a Contact Us form or an email. We use this information to address the inquiry and respond to the question.

Online Store

For orders and purchases placed through our online store on this site, we collect order details, name, institution name and address (if applicable), email address, phone number, shipping and billing addresses, credit/debit card information, shipping options and any instructions. We use this information to complete transactions, fulfill orders, communicate with individuals placing orders or visiting the online store, and for related purposes.

Surveys

Pearson may offer opportunities to provide feedback or participate in surveys, including surveys evaluating Pearson products, services or sites. Participation is voluntary. Pearson collects information requested in the survey questions and uses the information to evaluate, support, maintain and improve products, services or sites, develop new products and services, conduct educational research and for other purposes specified in the survey.

Contests and Drawings

Occasionally, we may sponsor a contest or drawing. Participation is optional. Pearson collects name, contact information and other information specified on the entry form for the contest or drawing to conduct the contest or drawing. Pearson may collect additional personal information from the winners of a contest or drawing in order to award the prize and for tax reporting purposes, as required by law.

Newsletters

If you have elected to receive email newsletters or promotional mailings and special offers but want to unsubscribe, simply email information@informit.com.

Service Announcements

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account information. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Customer Service

We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regard to issues relating to their account we reply via email or phone in accordance with the users' wishes when a user submits their information through our Contact Us form.

Other Collection and Use of Information


Application and System Logs

Pearson automatically collects log data to help ensure the delivery, availability and security of this site. Log data may include technical information about how a user or visitor connected to this site, such as browser type, type of computer/device, operating system, internet service provider and IP address. We use this information for support purposes and to monitor the health of the site, identify problems, improve service, detect unauthorized access and fraudulent activity, prevent and respond to security incidents and appropriately scale computing resources.

Web Analytics

Pearson may use third party web trend analytical services, including Google Analytics, to collect visitor information, such as IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, pages visited and time spent on a particular site. While these analytical services collect and report information on an anonymous basis, they may use cookies to gather web trend information. The information gathered may enable Pearson (but not the third party web trend services) to link information with application and system log data. Pearson uses this information for system administration and to identify problems, improve service, detect unauthorized access and fraudulent activity, prevent and respond to security incidents, appropriately scale computing resources and otherwise support and deliver this site and its services.

Cookies and Related Technologies

This site uses cookies and similar technologies to personalize content, measure traffic patterns, control security, track use and access of information on this site, and provide interest-based messages and advertising. Users can manage and block the use of cookies through their browser. Disabling or blocking certain cookies may limit the functionality of this site.

Do Not Track

This site currently does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Security


Pearson uses appropriate physical, administrative and technical security measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

Children


This site is not directed to children under the age of 13.

Marketing


Pearson may send or direct marketing communications to users, provided that

  • Pearson will not use personal information collected or processed as a K-12 school service provider for the purpose of directed or targeted advertising.
  • Such marketing is consistent with applicable law and Pearson's legal obligations.
  • Pearson will not knowingly direct or send marketing communications to an individual who has expressed a preference not to receive marketing.
  • Where required by applicable law, express or implied consent to marketing exists and has not been withdrawn.

Pearson may provide personal information to a third party service provider on a restricted basis to provide marketing solely on behalf of Pearson or an affiliate or customer for whom Pearson is a service provider. Marketing preferences may be changed at any time.

Correcting/Updating Personal Information


If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your postal address or email address), we provide a way to correct or update that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done on the Account page. If a user no longer desires our service and desires to delete his or her account, please contact us at customer-service@informit.com and we will process the deletion of a user's account.

Choice/Opt-out


Users can always make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with certain services offered by InformIT. If you choose to remove yourself from our mailing list(s) simply visit the following page and uncheck any communication you no longer want to receive: www.informit.com/u.aspx.

Sale of Personal Information


Pearson does not rent or sell personal information in exchange for any payment of money.

While Pearson does not sell personal information, as defined in Nevada law, Nevada residents may email a request for no sale of their personal information to NevadaDesignatedRequest@pearson.com.

Supplemental Privacy Statement for California Residents


California residents should read our Supplemental privacy statement for California residents in conjunction with this Privacy Notice. The Supplemental privacy statement for California residents explains Pearson's commitment to comply with California law and applies to personal information of California residents collected in connection with this site and the Services.

Sharing and Disclosure


Pearson may disclose personal information, as follows:

  • As required by law.
  • With the consent of the individual (or their parent, if the individual is a minor)
  • In response to a subpoena, court order or legal process, to the extent permitted or required by law
  • To protect the security and safety of individuals, data, assets and systems, consistent with applicable law
  • In connection the sale, joint venture or other transfer of some or all of its company or assets, subject to the provisions of this Privacy Notice
  • To investigate or address actual or suspected fraud or other illegal activities
  • To exercise its legal rights, including enforcement of the Terms of Use for this site or another contract
  • To affiliated Pearson companies and other companies and organizations who perform work for Pearson and are obligated to protect the privacy of personal information consistent with this Privacy Notice
  • To a school, organization, company or government agency, where Pearson collects or processes the personal information in a school setting or on behalf of such organization, company or government agency.

Links


This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects Personal Information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Requests and Contact


Please contact us about this Privacy Notice or if you have any requests or questions relating to the privacy of your personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Notice


We may revise this Privacy Notice through an updated posting. We will identify the effective date of the revision in the posting. Often, updates are made to provide greater clarity or to comply with changes in regulatory requirements. If the updates involve material changes to the collection, protection, use or disclosure of Personal Information, Pearson will provide notice of the change through a conspicuous notice on this site or other appropriate way. Continued use of the site after the effective date of a posted revision evidences acceptance. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns about the Privacy Notice or any objection to any revisions.

Last Update: November 17, 2020