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Part 1: Control of IP Networks
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Signaling
1.3. Flow control and management techniques
1.4. Policy-based management
1.5. Security
1.6. Mobile network control
1.7. Optical network control
1.8. Conclusion
1.9. Bibliography
Chapter 2: Quality of Service: The Basics
2.1. Introduction to Quality of Service
2.2. Network parameters
2.3. Overview of the basic mechanisms on IP
2.4. Overview
Chapter 3: Quality of Service: Mechanisms and Protocols
3.1. QoS and IP
3.2. IntServ (RSVP) model
3.3. The DiffServ model
3.4. MPLS architecture
3.5. QoS at level 2
Chapter 4: DiffServ: Differentiated Quality of Service
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Principles of DiffServ
4.3. Structure
4.4. DiffServ in edge routers
4.5. Conclusion
4.6. Bibliography
Chapter 5: Quality of Service in Wi-Fi
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Packets transmission with CSMA/CA access method
5.3. MAC level QoS in IEEE 802.11
5.4. Summary and conclusion
5.5. Bibliography
Chapter 6: Quality of Service: Policy-based Management
6.1. Introduction to policy-based management in IP networks
6.2. Architecture and protocols for policy-based management
6.3. The COPS protocol
6.4. COPS-RSVP
6.5. COPS-PR
6.6. SNMP
6.7. Conclusion
6.8. Bibliography
Chapter 7: Inter-domain Quality of Service
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Goal
7.3. Motivations for the use of mobile agents to offer inter-domain QoS
7.4. Negotiation of inter-domain QoS
7.5. An architecture for inter-domain negotiation
7.6. Conclusion
7.7. Bibliography
Part 2: The Evolution of IP Networks
Chapter 8: An Introduction to the Evolution in the World of IP
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Great evolutions
8.3. Quality of Service
8.4. IP mobility
8.5. IP multicast
8.6. VPN IP
8.7. Filtering
8.8. Intelligent IP networks
8.9. Conclusion
8.10. Bibliography
Chapter 9: IPv6, the New Internet Generation
9.1. Introduction
9.2. IPv6 characteristics
9.3. IPv6 packet header
9.4. IPv6 addressing
9.5. Transition from IPv4 Internet to IPv6 Internet
Chapter 10: Addressing in IP Networks
10.1. Introduction
10.2. IPv4 addressing
10.3. The future version of the IP protocol: IPv6
10.4. Conclusion
10.5. Bibliography
Chapter 11: SLA Driven Network Management
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Requirements for service driven management
11.3. The SLA
11.4. Specification of level of service (SLS)
11.5. Service contract chains
11.6. SLA types
11.7. SLA management (SLM)
11.8. SLA modeling and representation
11.9. Research projects and activities
11.10. Conclusion
11.11. Abbreviations and acronyms
11.12. Bibliography
Chapter 12: New Approaches for the Management and Control of IP Networks
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Network management policies
12.3. Policy-based management framework
12.4. COPS protocol
12.5. Policy domains
12.6. Information modeling
12.7. Conclusion
12.8. Bibliography
Chapter 13: Internet Security
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Elements of security
13.3. User data security
13.4. Internet infrastructure security
13.5. Internet access infrastructure security
13.6. Summary and conclusion
13.7. Bibliography
Chapter 14: Security Protocols for the Internet
14.1. Introduction
14.2. IPSec
14.3. IEEE 802.1x
14.4. Bibliography
Chapter 15: Secured Infrastructure for Ambient Virtual Offices
15.1. Introduction to ambient Internet and to its needs in terms of security
15.2. Virtual Private Smart Spaces (VPSS)
15.3. An infrastructure secured by ambient virtual offices
15.4. Conclusion and perspectives
15.5. Bibliography
Chapter 16: Smart Card Security
16.1. Introduction
16.2. History
16.3. Different parts of a smart card
16.4. Smart card communication
16.5. A secure component
16.6. Smart card alternatives
16.7. Smart card security advantages
16.8. Network security
16.9. Conclusion
16.10. Bibliography
Chapter 17: Video Adaptation on the Internet
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Error control
17.3. Point-to-point congestion and flow control
17.4. Multicast congestion and flow control
17.5. An example of video adaptation: multi-object video transmission
17.6. Conclusion
17.7. Bibliography
Chapter 18: Voice over IP
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Telephonic application in an IP context
18.3. Audio coders
18.4. Telephony over IP
18.5. Signaling protocols
18.6. QoS
18.7. Corporate IP telephony networks
18.8. Implementation of telephony over IP
18.9. Telephonic IP applications for the general public
18.10. Telephony-data integration
18.11. Conclusion
18.12. Bibliography
Chapter 19: Wireless Voice over IP
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Wireless VoIP problems
19.3. Voice management indications and designs
19.4. Adapting wireless QoS for voice
19.5. Conclusion
19.6. Bibliography
Part 3: The Next Generation of IP Networks
Chapter 20: Pervasive Networks
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Ambient intelligence
20.3. Ambient networks
20.4. Conclusion
20.5. Bibliography
Chapter 21: Wi-Fi/IEEE 802.11
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Technology
21.3. Amendments, progress and characteristics
21.4. Conclusion
21.5. Appendices
21.6. Bibliography
Chapter 22: Mobility and Quality of Service
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Summary of QoS and mobility architectures
22.3. Mobility architectures
22.4. Impact of mobility on QoS
22.5. Interaction architectures between QoS and mobility
22.6. Band interactions
22.7. Interaction with band signaling: INSIGNIA
22.8. Other communities
22.9. Conclusion
22.10. Bibliography
Chapter 23: Sensor Networks
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Definitions
23.3. Transmission medium
23.4. Platforms
23.5. Energy consumption
23.6. Power supply
23.7. Evaluation metrics
23.8. Network protocols
23.9. Auto-organization
23.10. Applications
23.11. IEEE 802.15.4 standard or ZigBee™
23.12. Production cost
23.13. Conclusion
23.14. Bibliography
Chapter 24: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Inter-vehicle Geocast
24.1. Introduction
24.2. Mobile ad hoc networks
24.3. Communication in intelligent transport
24.4. Inter-vehicle geocast
24.5. Performance evaluation
24.6. Conclusion
24.7. Bibliography
24.8. Appendix
Chapter 25: Pervasive Networks: Today and Tomorrow
25.1. Introduction
25.2. Networks of the pervasive Internet
25.3. QoS and security
25.4. Services
25.5. Bibliography
Chapter 26: Optical Networks
26.1. Introduction
26.2. History
26.3. Evolution of optical networks
26.4. Structure of an optical transmission system
26.5. Multiplexing techniques
26.6. Second generation optical networks
26.7. Wavelength switching optical networks
26.8. Distribution by optical fiber
26.9. Conclusion
26.10. Bibliography
Chapter 27: GMPLS-enabled Optical Networks
27.1. Introduction
27.2. Label switching (MPLS)
27.3. Evolution of IP/MPLS signaling for optical WDM networks
27.4. Conclusion
27.5. Bibliography
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