The Competitive Internet Service Provider
Network Architecture, Interconnection, Traffic Engineering and Network Design
Wiley Series in Communications Technology
April 2006
398 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few
years, it has become more and more important for Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an adequate
Quality of Service. The Competitive Internet Service
Provider is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to do just
that.
Oliver Heckmann approaches the issue from a system point of
view, looking not only at running a network, but also at connecting
the network with peering and transit partners or planning the
expansion of the network.
The Competitive Internet Service Provider:
* Offers an advanced reference on the topic, drawing on
state-of-the art research in network technology.
* Clearly defines the criteria enabling ISPs to operate with the
greatest efficiency and deliver adequate Quality of Service.
* Discusses the implications of the future multiservice Internet
and multimedia applications such as Voice over IP, peer-to-peer, or
network games.
* Delivers a comparative evaluation of different feasible Quality
of Service approaches.
* Explores scientific methods such as queuing theory, network
calculus, and optimization theory.
* Illustrates concepts throughout with mathematical models and
simulations.
This invaluable reference will provide academic and industrial
researchers in the field of network and communications technology,
graduate students on telecommunications courses, as well as ISP
managers, engineers and technicians, equipment manufacturers and
consultants, with an understanding of the concepts and issues
involved in running a successful ISP.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Abbreviations.
Part I Introduction and Basics.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Motivation.
1.2 Efficiency and Quality of Service.
1.3 Action Space and Approach.
1.4 Overview.
2 Internet Service Providers.
2.1 A Classification Model for ISPs.
2.2 Classification of Selected Providers.
2.3 Summary and Conclusions.
3 Performance Analysis Basics.
3.1 Queueing Theory.
3.2 Network Calculus.
3.3 Optimisation Techniques.
3.4 Summary and Conclusions.
4 Internet Protocols.
4.1 The Internet Protocol Stack.
4.2 Summary and Conclusions.
5 Applications.
5.1 World Wide Web.
5.2 Peer-to-Peer Applications.
5.3 Online Games.
5.4 Voice over IP.
5.5 Traffic Classification.
5.6 Summary and Conclusions.
Part II Network Architecture.
6 Network Architecture Overview.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Quality of Service Architectures.
6.3 Data Forwarding Architecture.
6.4 Signalling Architecture.
6.5 Security Architecture.
6.6 Admission Control.
6.7 Summary and Conclusions.
7 Analytical Comparison of Quality of ServiceSystems.
7.1 On the Benefit of Admission Control.
7.2 On the Benefit of Service Differentiation.
8 Experimental Comparison of Quality of ServiceSystems.
8.1 QoS Systems.
8.2 Experiment Setup.
8.3 Per-flow versus Per-class Scheduling.
8.4 Central versus Decentral Admission Control.
8.5 Direct Comparison.
8.6 Summary and Conclusions.
Part III Interconnections.
9 Interconnections Overview.
9.1 A Macroscopic View on Interconnections.
9.2 A Microscopic View on Interconnections.
9.3 Interconnection Method.
9.4 Interconnection Mix.
9.5 Summary and Conclusions.
10 Optimising the Interconnection Mix.
10.1 Costs.
10.2 Reliability.
10.3 Quality of Service.
10.4 Environment Changes.
10.5 Summary and Conclusions.
Part IV Traffic and Network Engineering.
11 Traffic and Network Engineering Overview.
11.1 Network Design and Network Engineering.
11.2 Traffic Engineering.
11.3 Traffic Matrix Estimation.
11.4 Summary and Conclusions.
12 Evaluation of Traffic Engineering.
12.1 Traffic Engineering Performance Metrics.
12.2 Traffic Engineering Strategies.
12.3 Experiment Setup.
12.4 Explicit Routing versus Path Selection.
12.5 Performance Evaluation.
12.6 Singlepath versus Multipath.
12.7 Influence of the Set of Paths.
12.8 Summary and Conclusions.
13 Network Engineering.
13.1 Quality of Service Systems and Network Engineering.
13.2 Capacity Expansion.
13.3 On the Influence of Elastic Traffic.
13.4 Summary and Conclusions.
Part V Appendices.
A Topologies Used in the Experiments.
B Experimental Comparison of Quality-of-serviceSystems.
C Analytical Comparison of Interconnection Methods.
C.1 Internet Exchange Point Cost Models.
C.2 Cost Efficiency of an Internet Exchange Point.
C.3 LAN versus MAN IXP Structure.
D Elasticity of Traffic Matrices - NetworkModels.
D.1 Basic Model.
D.2 Discrete Service Times.
D.3 Self-similar Traffic.
D.4 Related Work.
References.
Index.
