"For those who are particularly involved in pushing Internet technology to the next generation, this book is an excellent starting point. Recommended." - CHOICE
Part I. Enabling Technologies: 1. Optical layer switching paradigms D. Cuda, R. Gaudino, G. Gavilanes Castillo and F. Neri; 2. Broadband access networks: current and future directions A. Reaz, L. Shi and B. Mukherjee; 3. The optical control plane and a novel unified control place architecture for IP/WDM networks G. Ellinas, A. Hadjiantonis, N. Antoniades, M. A. Ali and A. Khalil; 4. Cognitive routing protocols and architecture S. Ju and J. B. Evans; 5. Grid networking A. Ravula and B. Ramamurthy; Part II. Network Architectures: 6. HIP: host identity protocol P. Nikander, A. Gurtov and T. R. Henderson; 7. Contract switching for managing inter-domain dynamics M. Yuksel, A. Gupta, K. Kar and S. Kalyanaraman; 8. PHAROS project I. Baldine, A. W. Jackson, J. Jacob, W. E. Leland, J. H. Lowry, W. C. Milliken, P. P. Pal, S. Ramanathan, K. A. Rauschenbach, C. A. Santivanez and D. M. Wood; 9. Network services and data-path customization T. Wolf; 10. SILO architecture R. Dutta and I. Baldine; Part III. Protocols and Practice: 11. Separating routing policy from mechanism in the network layer J. Griffioen, K. L. Calvert, O. Ascigil and S. Yuan; 12. Multipath BGP: motivations and solutions F. Valera, I. van Beijnum, A. Garcia-Martinez and M. Bagnulo; 13. Explicit congestion control: charging, fairness and admission management F. Kelly and G. Raina; 14. Kansei: a software infrastructure for resource management and programmer support across wireless sensor network fabrics M. Sridharan, W. Zeng, W. Leal, X. Ju, R. Ramnath, H. Zhang and A. Arora; 15. Router design including buffering and queuing strategies for the next generation Internet D. Wischik; 16. Stochastic NUM and wireless scheduling Y. Yi and M. Chiang; 17. Network coding in bi-directed and peer-to-peer networks Z. Li, H. Xu and B. Li; 18. Network economics and pricing J. Musacchio, G. Schwartz and J. Walrand.