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Internet QoS: Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

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I found that the comments by Crowcroft on the backcover summarise the book well: "What I really like about this book is that it cuts through the vast amount of noise about QoS in the Internet and pulls out the core ideas (integrated and differentiated services, MPLS and traffic engineering) in plain and simple technical prose."

The discussions on the mechanisms such as queuing, classification, policing and loadsharing and traffic engineering are particularly interesting.

The author has boiled down the concept of QOS-quality an abstract term into Performance optimization and resource allocation.The book provides a very good insight into traffic engineering and MPLS.Its the best book for QOS i have come across.The fish problem in traffic engineering is probably the best example i have come across.Overall its an excellent text.

I feel that this book provides excellent coverage of all of the important, implementable, models for providing service differentiation in the Internet. While it doesn't precisely tell me how to implement QoS, it does provide excellent reference points against which to measure effectiveness of an implementation in providing useful QoS. I find that I am using this book a lot in my work and expect that this will continue to be the case for a while.

The author has been actively involved in networking research for a long time. I bought his book hoping to gain some insight. Instead, I found it quite disappointing. The content is too superficial. I am actually not sure what audience this book is targeting. For me, I am looking for in depth analysis, at the least, it should provide good reference for each topic covered so that I have a starting point if I want to go to detail. For a person looking for basic understanding, this book also tries to go to too much detail, for example, on how each protocol works. I think he is just trying to fill the pages. I did not proof read it on purpose, but at least one reference (I happen to be familiar with it) is totally wrong. The paper is talking about routing prefix expansion, but he quoted them totally wrong.

If you want to get to know IP/MPLS QoS, this book will get you there very quickly. Although less than 250 pages, this book surprisingly covers almost all of the important topics in IP/MPLS QoS. Also an excellent reference book to have on your bookshelf.

I recently bought quite a few books on QoS and I would highly recommend this book to you if you are looking for one.

This book covers the four topics Diff-Serv, RSVP, MPLS, TE and their interaction in a very nice way. It also has a lot of detailed examples. For instance, it gives a detailed example to show hashing may be used in identifying traffic flows, or performing loadsharing.

I would disagree with one of the previous reviewer; I think this book has much more technical depth than any books on the topic. But it is written mostly for engineers and technical professionals rather than a text book.

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