Publisher's Synopsis
This CD-ROM contains the recordings (audio and slides) of a twodays advanced course on "Traffic Control and QoS in IP Networks"given by Olivier Bonaventure in October 2000. The coursewas designed for network engineers from ISPs or routermanufacturers. It assumes that the students already havea good knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It covers the following advanced topics :- Applications and their requirements- The TCP protocol and its congestion control mechanisms- Packet-level traffic control mechanisms (classification,queueing, shaping, policing, Random Early Detection, scheduling,Explicit Congestion Notification)- Flow-level traffic control mechanisms (RSVP, constrained routing)- Network-level traffic control mechanisms (policies, CommonOpen Policy Service, traffic engineering, fast restoration)- Standardised services (Integrated and Differentiated services)- Case studiesThe CD-ROM contains the audio recordings, the slides (in pdf andsource format) and an extensive bibliography. It requires aweb browser (Netscape/Internet Explorer) and the realaudiosoftware that is freely available on the Internet. It has beentested on PCs running Windows 95/98/NT and requires a sound card.
