Network Quality of Service Know It All

The term Quality of Service, abbreviated QoS, refers to network resource control mechanisms. Quality of Service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. This book brings all of the elements of network quality of service (QoS) together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It introduces network QoS, explains the basics, describes the protocols, and discusses advanced topics, by the best and brightest experts in the field. It is a quick and efficient way to bring valuable content together from leading experts in the field while creating a one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

Ch 1: Internet QoS: The Big Picture
Ch 2: Traffic Engineering and QoS Optimization Technology Overview (
Ch 3: Quality of Service in Congestion Control and Resource Allocation
Ch 4: IP Service Management
Ch 5: Quality of Service Routing
Ch 6: QoS in IP-Based Services
Ch 7: Foundation of Policy-Based Network Management
Ch 8: QoS Policy Usage Examples in Policy-Based Network Management
Ch 9: IPv6 Quality of Service
Ch 10: QoS in IP Networks Using SIP
Ch 11: Core Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering in IP and MPLS Networks

Network researchers, engineers, architects, operators, administrators, and managers, as well as related practitioners such as telco engineers, network software developers, etc.

Adrian Farrel has nearly two decades of experience designing and developing portable communications software. As MPLS Architect and Development Manager at Data Connection Ltd., he led a team that produced a carrier-class MPLS implementation for customers in the router space. As Director of Protocol Development for Movaz Networks, Inc., he helped build a cutting-edge system that integrated many IP-based protocols to control and manage optical switches. Adrian is active within the IETF, where he is co-chair of the CCAMP working group responsible for GMPLS. He has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet Drafts and RFCs on MPLS, GMPLS, and related technologies. He was a founding board member of the MPLS Forum, frequently speaks at conferences, and is the author of several white papers on GMPLS.