Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) [Hardcover]

XiPeng Xiao (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0123736935 | ISBN-13: 978-0123736932 | Publication Date: September 22, 2008

This book provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive discussion of related economic and regulatory issues. Written in a technology-light way so that a variety of professionals and researchers in the information and networking industries can easily grasp the material. Includes case studies based on real-world experiences from industry.

The author starts by discussing the economic, regulatory and technical challenges of the existing QoS model. Key coverage includes defining a clear business model for selling and buying QoS in relation to current and future direction of government regulation and QoS interoperability (or lack thereof) between carriers and networking devices. The author then demonstrates how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulation uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success. This includes discussion of QoS re-packaging to end-users; economic and regulatory benefits of the re-packaging; and the overall benefits of an improved technical approach. Finally, the author discusses the future evolution of QoS from an Internet philosophy perspective and lets the reader draw the conclusions.

This book is the first QoS book to provide in depth coverage on the commercial and regulatory aspects of QoS, in addition to the technical aspect. From that, readers can grasp the commercial and regulatory issues of QoS and their implications on the overall QoS business model. This book is also the first QoS book to provide case studies of real world QoS deployments, contributed by the people who did the actual deployments. From that, readers can grasp the practical issues of QoS in real world. This book is also the first QoS book to cover both wireline QoS and wireless QoS. Readers can grasp the QoS issues in the wireless world. The book was reviewed and endorsed by a long list of prominent industrial and academic figures.

* The only book to discuss QoS technology in relation to economic and regulatory issues
* Includes case studies based on real-world examples from industry practitioners.
* Provides unique insight into how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulatory uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success.

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"This book presents a complete, insightful view of QoS in the Internet.. The book is logically structured and designed to be read from cover to cover. It contains summaries after each chapter and even wholes sections that summarize previous parts. Xipeng Xiao's language is easily understandable, and his argumentation lines are logical and coherent. All this makes it a good book for academic researchers and industrial parties wanting to develop QoS architecture or effectively sell it, respectively. Therefore, I am glad to join the already impressive list of endorsements and recommend Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective as a unique position among the existing QoS literature."--IEEE Magazine

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123736935
• ISBN-13: 978-0123736932
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,089,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars QoS - comprehensive and in-depth, January 23, 2011

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This review is from: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)

As an engineer working a lifetime in telecoms, first in a national telecoms-industry and then as a consultant worldwide for various service providers, I can recommend this book as a comprehensive and at the same time in-depth handbook for all matters related to Quality of Service - especially in the Internet. QoS represents today a wide and fast growing area covering all sorts of aspects from traditional traffic and Grade of Service measurements, reliability of network components and subsystems to data integrity and security, finally even setting standards and goals for the availability of network services and network performance.
Obviously, the Internet is developing into a global nervous system" for nearly all human activities (e.g. private, social, commercial, technical - soon nothing will be left out). A high standard of QoS becomes therefore more and more important and ultimately indispensible. Solid knowledge about QoS as provided by this book will soon be a basic requirement everywhere. Especially for all dealing with the Internet, to my opinion this excellent book should be considered a must-have.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book on QoS, November 29, 2010

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This review is from: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)

I bought this QoS book recently and have just finished reading it. It is an interesting book and quite different from other "technical" QoS books. The book talks about some very important concepts and highly relevant to QoS implementation in the real world. I am in Australia, working for service providers, have been heavily involved in a number of QoS projects in recent few years. I find quite some people make things over complicated but not really serve the purspose.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent coverage on QOS with balanced view., December 1, 2009

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This review is from: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)

On my recent trip to Paris, I have this book accompanied me. It's an excellent book for killing the long flight hours. It keeps me interested while at the same time delivers a very decent education on Internet QOS from technical, commercial and regulatory perspective. The author of the book is very good at:

1. Delivering a balanced coverage on each issue. The author stayed neutral (Or at least tried staying neutral) on many controversial topics. Pros and cons are iterated thoroughly and comprehensively from both sides.
2. Explaining the intricate, subtle and complicated relationships among technical, commercial and regulatory sides. I understand a good deal of QOS from technical perspective. But rarely an article or book does a good job explaining the challenge and difficult to market and regulate QOS. This book excels on this.
3. Picking good illustrative examples, cases and numbers. These examples and cases make the book fun to read too.

QOS is very complicated from the technical side, let alone to mix in commercial and regulatory requirements. It's a good academic and research topic but ill practiced by engineers and marketers. I feel, after reading the book, it'll be the case for a long time.