Inside the Internet's Resource reSerVation Protocol: Foundations for Quality of Service [Hardcover]

David Durham (Author), Raj Yavatkar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0471322148 | ISBN-13: 978-0471322146 | Edition: 1

The ultimate insider's guide to making the most of RSVP.

The advent of the Internet Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) marks the beginning of a bold new era of Internetworking QoS. Written by the leaders of the Intel team that developed the RSVP implementation and QoS infrastructure for PCs, this book demystifies this important new protocol for network managers, Internet service providers and developers. Step-by-step, and from the ground up, David Durham and Raj Yavatkar fill you in on what you need to know about:
* Core Internet technologies and protocols relevant to RSVP.
* RSVP and multicasting.
* QoS and the Integrated Services Model.
* RSVP fundamentals, including reservations and messaging.
* RSVP components.
* Implementing RSVP in legacy environments.
* RSVP security.
* QoS API.
* Merging reservations, avoiding denial of service attacks, and other advanced RSVP topics.

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/durham features:
* RSVP standards updates.
* Relevant industry updates.

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From the Back Cover

The ultimate insider's guide to making the most of RSVP.

The advent of the Internet Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) marks the beginning of a bold new era of Internetworking QoS. Written by the leaders of the Intel team that developed the RSVP implementation and QoS infrastructure for PCs, this book demystifies this important new protocol for network managers, Internet service providers and developers. Step-by-step, and from the ground up, David Durham and Raj Yavatkar fill you in on what you need to know about:
* Core Internet technologies and protocols relevant to RSVP.
* RSVP and multicasting.
* QoS and the Integrated Services Model.
* RSVP fundamentals, including reservations and messaging.
* RSVP components.
* Implementing RSVP in legacy environments.
* RSVP security.
* QoS API.
* Merging reservations, avoiding denial of service attacks, and other advanced RSVP topics.

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/durham features:
* RSVP standards updates.
* Relevant industry updates.

About the Author

David Durham is a software engineer at Intel, where he has been working on the development of the RSVP protocol to support QoS. He is also a member of the IETF Working Group developing the final specifications for RSVP.

Raj Yavatkar, Phd, is the Director of Internet Infrastructure at Intel's Communications Architecture Laboratory, where he led the development of RSVP and the QoS implementations for the next generation of Microsoft operating systems. He also authored and led the IETF specification of Subnet Bandwidth Manager for mapping RSVP and Integrated Services on LANs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471322148
• ISBN-13: 978-0471322146
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,746,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well written, great overview/intro to QoS, November 5, 1999

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This review is from: Inside the Internet's Resource reSerVation Protocol: Foundations for Quality of Service (Hardcover)

Easy to read, extremely well written, perfect book if you want to start learning about QoS, RSVP, Integrated Services and Windows QoS API's. Not very deep technically and only briefly touches on Differentiated Services (but covers the important points). Would highly recommend as one of the texts for either an undergraduate/graduate course in QoS or networking. Would not recommend for the QoS expert.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a keeper, September 4, 2002

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This review is from: Inside the Internet's Resource reSerVation Protocol: Foundations for Quality of Service (Hardcover)

I purchased this book when I started a project that was going to use RSVP. I was disappointed. They coverage of the protocol is OK, but the coverage of the information transported by the protocol is aweful. I was left with the questions, "OK, but what is RSVP good for?".

3.0 out of 5 stars A little simplistic, December 18, 2001

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This review is from: Inside the Internet's Resource reSerVation Protocol: Foundations for Quality of Service (Hardcover)

This book covers much of the same material as "Quality of Service" by Huston/Ferguson, and also has a chapter on QoS Policy management

If you're looking for discussion of topics like scalablity and jitter control, this is not the book. But if you're looking for a basic text that provides lots of background on concepts like delay, congestion etc. then it could be good.

The diagrams are great and I wish that there was a way I could scoop them into a Powerpoint presentation.

Be aware of the oversimplication though - eg. on p.101 they explain that applications often require "timely delivery" and give the example of streaming video. But then they say that web traffic or bulk data backup would also find "slow loads" unacceptable - thus obscuring the basic difference between latency and thruput.