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Internet QoS: Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service

   by Zheng Wang

  Hardcover:
    Morgan Kaufmann
    15 March, 2001

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Editorial description(s):

Review
"What I really like about this book is that it cuts through the vast amount of noise about QoS in the Internet, and pulls out the core ideas (integrated and differentiated services, MPLS, and traffic engineering) in plain and simple technical prose. Internet QoS presents a balanced view of the various technologies and relates them to their practical use. It's up to date, but unlikely to go out of date quickly either, so should prove useful to engineers and students alike."
--Jon Crowcroft, University College London


Review
"What I really like about this book is that it cuts through the vast amount of noise about QoS in the Internet, and pulls out the core ideas (integrated and differentiated services, MPLS, and traffic engineering) in plain and simple technical prose. Internet QoS presents a balanced view of the various technologies and relates them to their practical use. It's up to date, but unlikely to go out of date quickly either, so should prove useful to engineers and students alike."
--Jon Crowcroft, University College London


Book Info
(Academic Press) A guide to Internet QoS (Quality of Service) techniques, addressing the special challenges unique to QoS in an Internet environment. Includes insights from a Bell Labs engineer, and emphasizes integrated services, MPLS, traffic engineering, and differentiated services. DLC: Internet--Evaluation.


From the Back Cover
"What I really like about this book is that it cuts through the vast amount of noise about QoS in the Internet, and pulls out the core ideas (integrated and differentiated services, MPLS, and traffic engineering) in plain and simple technical prose. Internet QoS presents a balanced view of the various technologies and relates them to their practical use. It's up to date, but unlikely to go out of date quickly either, so should prove useful to engineers and students alike."



--Jon Crowcroft, University College London



Guaranteeing performance and prioritizing data across the Internet may seem nearly impossible because of an increasing number of variables that can affect and undermine service. But if you're involved in developing and implementing streaming video or voice, or other time-sensitive Internet applications, you understand exactly what's at stake in establishing Quality of Service (QoS) and recognize the benefits it will bring to your company.



What you need is a reliable guide to the latest QoS techniques that addresses the Internet's special challenges. Internet QoS is it-the first book to dig deep into the issues that affect your ability to provide performance and prioritization guarantees to your customers and users! This book gives a comprehensive view of key technologies and discusses various analytical techniques to help you get the most out of network resources as you strive to make, and adhere to, meaningful QoS guarantees.



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Book Description



Guaranteeing performance and prioritizing data across the Internet may seem nearly impossible because of an increasing number of variables that can affect and undermine service. But if you're involved in developing and implementing streaming video or voice, or other time-sensitive Internet applications, you understand exactly what's at stake in establishing Quality of Service (QoS) and recognize the benefits it will bring to your company.



What you need is a reliable guide to the latest QoS techniques that addresses the Internet's special challenges. Internet QoS is it-the first book to dig deep into the issues that affect your ability to provide performance and prioritization guarantees to your customers and users! This book gives a comprehensive view of key technologies and discusses various analytical techniques to help you get the most out of network resources as you strive to make, and adhere to, meaningful QoS guarantees.

* Includes valuable insights from a Bell Labs engineer with 14 years of experience in data networking and Internet protocol design.
* Details the enhancements to current Internet architectures and discusses new mechanisms and network management capabilities that QoS will require.
* Focuses on the four main areas of Internet QoS: integrated services, differentiated services, MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), and traffic engineering.




Reader review(s):

A Solid Book, March 16, 2001
I found that the comments by Crowcroft on the backcover summarise the book well: "What I really like about this book is that it cuts through the vast amount of noise about QoS in the Internet and pulls out the core ideas (integrated and differentiated services, MPLS and traffic engineering) in plain and simple technical prose."

The discussions on the mechanisms such as queuing, classification, policing and loadsharing and traffic engineering are particularly interesting.

QOS-performance optimization, resource allocation, November 1, 2001
The author has boiled down the concept of QOS-quality an abstract term into Performance optimization and resource allocation.The book provides a very good insight into traffic engineering and MPLS.Its the best book for QOS i have come across.The fish problem in traffic engineering is probably the best example i have come across.Overall its an excellent text.

Great topical reference, June 29, 2001
I feel that this book provides excellent coverage of all of the important, implementable, models for providing service differentiation in the Internet. While it doesn't precisely tell me how to implement QoS, it does provide excellent reference points against which to measure effectiveness of an implementation in providing useful QoS. I find that I am using this book a lot in my work and expect that this will continue to be the case for a while.

Excellent Book, May 23, 2001
I recently bought quite a few books on QoS and I would highly recommend this book to you if you are looking for one.

This book covers the four topics Diff-Serv, RSVP, MPLS, TE and their interaction in a very nice way. It also has a lot of detailed examples. For instance, it gives a detailed example to show hashing may be used in identifying traffic flows, or performing loadsharing.

I would disagree with one of the previous reviewer; I think this book has much more technical depth than any books on the topic. But it is written mostly for engineers and technical professionals rather than a text book.

too superficial, May 18, 2001
The author has been actively involved in networking research for a long time. I bought his book hoping to gain some insight. Instead, I found it quite disappointing. The content is too superficial. I am actually not sure what audience this book is targeting. For me, I am looking for in depth analysis, at the least, it should provide good reference for each topic covered so that I have a starting point if I want to go to detail. For a person looking for basic understanding, this book also tries to go to too much detail, for example, on how each protocol works. I think he is just trying to fill the pages. I did not proof read it on purpose, but at least one reference (I happen to be familiar with it) is totally wrong. The paper is talking about routing prefix expansion, but he quoted them totally wrong.

An Excellent Reference Book on IP/MPLS QoS Issues, June 2, 2001
If you want to get to know IP/MPLS QoS, this book will get you there very quickly. Although less than 250 pages, this book surprisingly covers almost all of the important topics in IP/MPLS QoS. Also an excellent reference book to have on your bookshelf.
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