Inside the Internet's Resource reSerVation Protocol: Foundations for Quality of Service - Hardcover

Durham, David; Yavatkar, Raj

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ISBN 10: 0471322148 ISBN 13: 9780471322146

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1999

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The ultimate insider's guide to making the most of RSVP.

The advent of the Internet Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) marks the beginning of a bold new era of Internetworking QoS. Written by the leaders of the Intel team that developed the RSVP implementation and QoS infrastructure for PCs, this book demystifies this important new protocol for network managers, Internet service providers and developers. Step-by-step, and from the ground up, David Durham and Raj Yavatkar fill you in on what you need to know about:
* Core Internet technologies and protocols relevant to RSVP.
* RSVP and multicasting.
* QoS and the Integrated Services Model.
* RSVP fundamentals, including reservations and messaging.
* RSVP components.
* Implementing RSVP in legacy environments.
* RSVP security.
* QoS API.
* Merging reservations, avoiding denial of service attacks, and other advanced RSVP topics.

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/durham features:
* RSVP standards updates.
* Relevant industry updates.

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About the Author

David Durham is a software engineer at Intel, where he has been working on the development of the RSVP protocol to support QoS. He is also a member of the IETF Working Group developing the final specifications for RSVP.

Raj Yavatkar, Phd, is the Director of Internet Infrastructure at Intel's Communications Architecture Laboratory, where he led the development of RSVP and the QoS implementations for the next generation of Microsoft operating systems. He also authored and led the IETF specification of Subnet Bandwidth Manager for mapping RSVP and Integrated Services on LANs.

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