PREFACE. |
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. |
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1 CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS QOS? |
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1.1 QOS DEFINITION. |
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1.2 APPLICATIONS. |
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1.3 QOS METRICS. |
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1.4 THE CONCEPT OF TRAFFIC FLOW AND TRAFFIC CLASS. |
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2 CHAPTER 2 - QOS-BASED NETWORKS. |
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2.1 HETEROGENEOUS QOS-BASED NETWORKS. |
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2.2 THE CONCEPT OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. |
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3 CHAPTER 3 - QOS-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGIES. |
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3.1 LAYERED ARCHITECTURE AND REMOTE SYSTEMS CONNECTIONS PROTOCOL STACK. |
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3.2 ATM. |
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3.3 MPLS. |
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3.4 QOS-IPV4. |
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3.4.1 Integrated Services. |
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3.4.2 Differentiated Services. |
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3.4.3 Mixed IntServ-DiffServ approach. |
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3.5 QOS-IPV6. |
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3.6 CLASS OF SERVICE FULL IPV6 NETWORK (CSF6N). |
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3.7 FULL IPV6 SWITCHED NETWORK (F6SN). |
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4 CHAPTER 4 - NETWORK CONTROL ISSUES. |
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4.1 QOS MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS. |
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4.1.2 Flow identification. |
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4.1.3 Resource Reservation and CAC. |
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4.1.4 Traffic Control (Shaping). |
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4.1.7.1 Introduction to flow control and to TCP. |
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4.1.7.2 CCSDS. |
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4.1.7.3 Application layer coder control. |
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4.2 THE RISK OF NO CONTROL. |
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4.2.1 Flow Identification. |
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4.2.2 CAC. |
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4.2.4 Resource Allocation. |
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5 CHAPTER 5 - QOS OVER HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS. |
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5.1 SCENARIOS AND PROBLEMS. |
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5.2 VERTICAL QOS MAPPING. |
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5.2.1 Information Transport Technologies. |
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5.2.1.1 TDM (Time Division Multiplexing). |
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5.2.1.2 DTM (Dynamic Transfer Mode). |
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5.2.1.3 SDH/SONET (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy / Synchronous Optical Network). |
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5.2.1.5 ATM and Frame Relay. |
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5.2.2 Formal Relation among the Layers. |
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5.3 HORIZONTAL QOS MAPPING. |
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6 CHAPTER 6 - QOS ARCHITECTURES. |
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6.1 END-TO-END QUALITY OF SERVICE: STATE-OF-THE-ART. |
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6.2 ARCHITECTURES FOR QOS CONTROL. |
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6.3 “TECHNOLOGY”-CENTRIC QOS ARCHITECTURE. |
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6.4 IP-CENTRIC QOS ARCHITECTURE. |
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6.4.1 Architectures and data encapsulation. |
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6.4.2 IntServ-IP-Centric QoS Architecture. |
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6.4.3 DiffServ-IP-Centric QoS Architecture. |
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6.4.3.1 Encapsulation and data flow. |
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6.4.3.4 DiffServ-Pre Congestion Notification (DiffServ-PCN). |
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6.4.3.5 Bandwidth Broker (BB). |
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6.4.3.6 Hard versus Loose QoS Guarantees. |
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6.5 MPLS-CENTRIC QOS APPROACH. |
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6.5.1 MPLS-Integrated QoS approach. |
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6.5.1.1 EXP-Inferred MPLS-Integrated QoS Approach. |
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6.5.1.2 Label-Inferred MPLS-Integrated QoS Approach. |
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6.5.2 Full-MPLS-Centric QoS approach. |
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6.6 IPV6-CENTRIC QOS APPROACH. |
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6.7 QOS OVERALL ARCHITECTURE. |
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6.8 QOS ARCHITECTURES COMPARISON. |
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6.8.1 Comparison of the Features. |
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6.8.2 SLS separation versus aggregation. |
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7 CHAPTER 7 - SIGNALLING OVER QOS ARCHITECTURES. |
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7.1 INTRODUCTION. |
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7.2 RSVP QOS SIGNALLING. |
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7.2.2 RSVP OBJECTS. |
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7.2.3 RSVP Entities and Resource Reservation applied to QoS Architectures. |
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7.2.4 RSVP functional specification (RSVP packet format). |
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7.2.5 Summary of RSVP Protocol Mechanism. |
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7.2.6 RSVP Extension for DiffServ QoS Signalling. |
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7.3 RSVP-TE. |
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7.3.2 New Objects Definition. |
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7.3.4 RSVP-TE and Scalability. |
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7.4 NSIS QOS SIGNALLING. |
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7.4.1 Requirements and Application Scenarios. |
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7.5 Q-BGP (QUALITY OF SERVICE ENHANCED– BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL). |
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7.5.1 Introduction to BGP. |
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7.5.2 BGP message formats. |
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7.5.3 Additional information carried by q-BGP. |
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7.6 FINAL REMARKS CONCERNING SIGNALLING. |
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8 CHAPTER 8 - VERTICAL QOS MAPPING. |
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8.1 REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE. |
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8.2 CONTROL MODULES. |
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8.3 TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT LAYERS IMPLEMENTATION. |
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8.4 TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENT LAYERS IMPLEMENTATION. |
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8.5 TI-SAP IMPLEMENTATION. |
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8.6 VERTICAL QOS MAPPING PROBLEMS. |
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8.6.1 Change of information unit. |
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8.6.2 Heterogeneous traffic aggregation. |
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9 CHAPTER 9 – ALGORITHM FOR VERTICAL QOS MAPPING. |
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9.1 INTRODUCTION. |
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9.2 NETWORK OPTIMIZATION: STATE-OF-THE-ART. |
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9.3 THE SI-SAP QOS MAPPING PROBLEM. |
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9.3.1 System constraints and assumptions. |
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9.3.2 Stochastic fluid model and optimization problem. |
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9.3.3 Reference Chaser Bandwidth Controller (RCBC). |
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9.3.4 Alternative Approach: Equivalent Bandwidth Heuristic. |
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9.4 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS. |
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9.4.1.1 Convergence behaviour and tracking capability of the control algorithm. |
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9.4.1.2 Comparison with CellTax Heuristic. |
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9.4.1.3 Additional information about convergence. |
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9.4.1.4 RCBC behaviour: feedback from measured SI losses and from SLS reference level. |
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9.4.2 Traffic aggregation. |
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9.4.3 Fading counteraction. |
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10 CHAPTER 10 – QOS GATEWAYS FOR SATELLITE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION. |
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10.1 QOS GATEWAYS ROLE. |
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10.2 PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION THROUGH LAYERS (POTL). |
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10.3 PROTOCOL STACK OPTIMIZATION. |
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11 CHAPTER 11 – QOS GATEWAYS FOR SATELLITE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION. |
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11.1 INTRODUCTION. |
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11.2 SYSTEM SCENARIO AND CONTROL ARCHITECTURE. |
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11.3 GENERAL BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION ARCHITECTURE. |
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11.4 PARETO OPTIMALITY OF THE BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION. |
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11.5 RESOLUTION APPROACHES. |
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11.5.6.1 Constrained Utopia Minimum Distance (CUMD). |
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11.5.6.2 QoS Point Minimum Distance (QPMD). |
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11.6 NUMERICAL EXAMPLES. |
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12 CHAPTER 12 – TRANSPORT LAYER OVER SATELLITE. |
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12.1 INTRODUCTION. |
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12.2 THE TCP PROTOCOL. |
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12.3 THE TCP CONGESTION CONTROL. |
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12.4 TCP OVER SATELLITE NETWORKS. |
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12.5 TCP PARAMETERS. |
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12.6 COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE TCP. |
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12.7 FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE. |
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13 REFERENCES. |
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INDEX. 9780470017524 |
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