Capacity assignment in networks; Capacity assignment in distributed network; Centralized networks: time delay-cost trade offs; Elements of queueing theory; Concentration and buffering in store-and-forward networks; Concentration: finite buffers, dynamic buffering, block storage; Centralized network design: multipoint connections; Network design algorithms; Routing and flow control; Polling in networks; Random access techniques; Line control procedures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2009, held in Aachen, Germany, in May 2000. The 48 revised full papers and 28 work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 232 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Ad-Hoc Networks: Sensor Networks; Modelling: Routing & Queuing; Peer to peer: Analysis; Quality of Service: New Protocols; Wireless Networks: Planning & Performance; Applications and Services: System Evaluation; Peer to peer: Topology; Next Generation Internet: Transport Protocols; Wireless Networks: Protocols; Next Generation Internet: Network & Transport; Modelling and Performance Analysis: Infrastructure; Applications and Services: Streaming & Multimedia; Wireless Networks: Availability; Modelling and Performance Evaluation: Network Architectures; Peer to peer: Frameworks & Architectures; All-IP Networking: Frameworks; Next Generation Internet; Performance and Wireless.

Datenpaketvermittlung, Telepac, Packet switching ; Verkehrstheorie, Verkehrsmessung (Telefonie) ; Netzwerk, Computernetzwerk, Systems Network Architecture, Open System Interconnection, SNA, OSI.

A detailed and complete guide to exporting, collecting, analyzing, and understanding network flows to make managing networks easier. Network flow analysis is the art of studying the traffic on a computer network. Understanding the ways to export flow and collect and analyze data separates good network administrators from great ones. The detailed instructions in Network Flow Analysis teach the busy network administrator how to build every component of a flow-based network awareness system and how network analysis and auditing can help address problems and improve network reliability. Readers learn what flow is, how flows are used in network management, and how to use a flow analysis system. Real-world examples illustrate how to best apply the appropriate tools and how to analyze data to solve real problems. Lucas compares existing popular tools for network management, explaining why they don't address common real-world issues and demonstrates how, once a network administrator understands the underlying process and techniques of flow management, building a flow management system from freely-available components is not only possible but actually a better choice than much more expensive systems.

This is a book about the bricks and mortar out of which are built those edifices that so well characterize late twentieth century industrial society networks of computers and terminals. Such computer networks are playing an increasing role in our daily lives, somewhat indirectly up to now as the hidden servants of banks, retail credit bureaus, airline reservation offices, and so forth, but soon they will become more visible as they enter our offices and homes and directly become part of our work, entertainment, and daily living. The study of how computer networks work is a combined study of communication theory and computer science, two disciplines appearing to have very little in common. The modern communication scientist wishing to work in this area finds himself in suddenly unfamiliar territory. It is no longer sufficient for him to think of transmission, modulation, noise immun ity, error bounds, and other abstractions of a single communication link; he is dealing now with a topologically complex interconnection of such links. And what is more striking, solving the problems of getting the signal from one point to another is just the beginning of the communication process. The communication must be in the right form to be routed properly, to be handled without congestion, and to be understood at the right points in the network. The communication scientist suddenly finds himself charged with responsibility for such things as code and format conversions, addressing, flow control, and other abstractions of a new and challenging kind.