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.

"This book offers cutting edge approaches for the provision of quality of service in wireless local area networks"--Provided by publisher.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networking and Multimedia Communications, HSNMC 2004, held in Toulouse, France in June/July 2004. The 101 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 266 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on quality of service, QoS, DiffServ, and performance analysis; scheduling and resource allocation; MPLS; routing and multicast; mobile networks, mobile IP, 3G/UMTS; IEEE 802.11 networks and ad hoc networks; wireless and WLAN; optical networks and WDM; applications and software development; and security and privacy.

The ultimate reference on wireless technology—now updated and revised Fully updated to incorporate the latest developments and standards in the field, A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge, Second Edition provides industry professionals with a one-stop reference to everything they need to design, implement, operate, secure, and troubleshoot wireless networks. Written by a group of international experts, the book offers an unmatched breadth of coverage and a unique focus on real-world engineering issues. The authors draw upon extensive experience in all areas of the technology to explore topics with proven practical applications, highlighting emerging areas such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) in wireless networks. The new edition is thoroughly revised for clarity, reviews wireless engineering fundamentals, and features numerous references for further study. Based on the areas of expertise covered in the IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET) exam, this book explains: Wireless access technologies, including the latest in mobile cellular technology Core network and service architecture, including important protocols and solutions Network management and security, from operations process models to key security issues Radio engineering and antennas, with specifics on radio frequency propagation and wireless link design Facilities infrastructure, from lightning protection to surveillance systems With this trusted reference at their side, wireless practitioners will get up to speed on advances and best practices in the field and acquire the common technical language and tools needed for working in different parts of the world.

The 2001 International Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks showcased some of the world's most dynamic presenters, including Dr Leonard Keinrock (inventor of Internet technology), as well as leading experts from 20 countries who dealt with the latest technological breakthroughs. This book is a collection of technical papers presented at the conference. It comprises 32 high-quality papers that have been carefully selected from more than 100 submissions.