{"product_id":"the-competitive-internet-service-provider-9780470012932","title":"The Competitive Internet Service Provider","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDue to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an adequate Quality of Service. The Competitive Internet Service Provider is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to do just that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Figures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction and Basics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Motivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Efficiency and Quality of Service.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Action Space and Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Internet Service Providers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 A Classification Model for ISPs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Classification of Selected Providers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Performance Analysis Basics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Queueing Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Network Calculus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Optimisation Techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Internet Protocols.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 The Internet Protocol Stack.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Applications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 World Wide Web.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Peer-to-Peer Applications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Online Games.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Voice over IP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Traffic Classification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Network Architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Network Architecture Overview.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Quality of Service Architectures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Data Forwarding Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Signalling Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Security Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Admission Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Analytical Comparison of Quality of Service Systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 On the Benefit of Admission Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 On the Benefit of Service Differentiation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Experimental Comparison of Quality of Service Systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 QoS Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Experiment Setup.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Per-flow versus Per-class Scheduling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Central versus Decentral Admission Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Direct Comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Interconnections.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Interconnections Overview.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 A Macroscopic View on Interconnections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 A Microscopic View on Interconnections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Interconnection Method.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Interconnection Mix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Optimising the Interconnection Mix.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Costs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Reliability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Quality of Service.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Environment Changes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Traffic and Network Engineering.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Traffic and Network Engineering Overview.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Network Design and Network Engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Traffic Engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Traffic Matrix Estimation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Evaluation of Traffic Engineering.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Traffic Engineering Performance Metrics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Traffic Engineering Strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Experiment Setup.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Explicit Routing versus Path Selection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Performance Evaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 Singlepath versus Multipath.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.7 Influence of the Set of Paths.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.8 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Network Engineering.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.1 Quality of Service Systems and Network Engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.2 Capacity Expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.3 On the Influence of Elastic Traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.4 Summary and Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Appendices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Topologies Used in the Experiments.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eB Experimental Comparison of Quality-of-service Systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC Analytical Comparison of Interconnection Methods.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC.1 Internet Exchange Point Cost Models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC.2 Cost Efficiency of an Internet Exchange Point.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC.3 LAN versus MAN IXP Structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eD Elasticity of Traffic Matrices – Network Models.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.1 Basic Model.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.2 Discrete Service Times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.3 Self-similar Traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.4 Related Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReferences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402253082967,"sku":"9780470012932","price":102.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470012932.jpg?v=1730479842","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-competitive-internet-service-provider-9780470012932","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}