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High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication (Networking Council)

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This is one of those books that would definitely benefit anyone trying to design a protocol/system for high performance. It has a great deal of information and trade-offs that one should consider while designing a system. Chapter 2 alone is a lot of information and design methodologies that are widely deploy-able across any platform that anyone would work on. I have been working on this book for a while now and feel that this is a ready reference when I would be designing my own protocol (if luck so falls upon me!) and make all the points a check-list to be sure that what I have designed is in keeping with the principles outlined in this work.. Even though the book seems to be old in print, the information is not tied to any particular technology which makes it still relevant in this day and age. Highly recommend this book and hope it gets its due in readership.

If you already know basics of networking and you in developing a product or involved in protocol design or trying to architect a BOX this book is for you.

The book has taken a different approach by explaning concepts and providing key difference which you will not find in RFC's are specifications.

The book does not talk about any protocol detail rather it provides a concepts and problems behind the protocol and is really a nice thing to read and covers from physical layer, network components, host and end-to-end issues.

I gave this 5 star - useful references , tips and quotes to remember the principles are really good. Thank God! not much of mathematics while explaining some concepts.

This book provides a refreshing change from most networking books that describe a mass of protocols, and instead attempts to extract principles that underly these protocols. These are summarized in an appendix, and are discussed throughout the book.

The downside is that one section of the book will often (of necessity) refer to principles described in another section of the book, but the only reference is to a name and number of the principle (e.g. "Backward Compatibilty Inhibits Radical Change (III.7)"). To find more detail about the principle requires searching the appendix (section III.7 for the example) that is somewhere towards the end of the book for a page reference where the principle is defined. It would be better if the inside cover listed the titles of the principles and the pages where they are defined, and if the appendix or index could list the pages where the principle is used.