Mathematical Foundations

This will appear as a separate book in 2011.

Volume I: Introduction

Atoms, Bits, and Networks

• Introduction
• An overview of networking technologies
• Networking concepts and techniques
• Engineering computer networks
• In closing

The Telephone Network: Concepts, History, and Challenges

• Concepts
• End-systems
• Transmission
• Switching
• Signaling
• Cellular communication: 2,3, and 4G
• Historical sketch
• Challenges
• Summary

The Internet: Concepts, History, and Challenges

• Concepts
• Basic Internet technology
• Addressing
• Routing
• Endpoint control
• History
• Challenges
• Summary

Converged networks: Concepts and Challenges

• Convergence: what and why
• Technologies for convergence (RTP, MPLS, SIP, and IMS)
• Challenges
• Summary

Volume II: Principles

Protocol Layering

• Protocols and protocol layering
• Importance of layering
• Problems with layering
• ISO-OSI reference model
• The seven layers
• Summary

Multiple Access

• Introduction
• Choices and constraints
• Foundational technologies
• Centralized access schemes
• Distributed schemes
• Summary

Switching

• Introduction
• Circuit switching
• Virtual circuit and packet switching
• Switch fabrics
• Buffering
• Multicasting
• Summary

Scheduling

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Fundamental choices
• Scheduling best-effort connections
• Scheduling real-time connections
• Comparison
• Packet dropping
• Summary

Naming and Addressing

• Introduction
• Naming and addressing - an axiomatic basis
• Hierarchical naming
• Addressing
• Common addressing schemes
• Name resolution
• Datalink layer addressing
• Finding datalink layer addresses
• Summary

Routing

• Introduction
• Routing protocol requirements
• Choices
• Routing in the telephone network
• Distance-vector routing
• Link-tate routing
• Choosing link costs
• Hierarchical routing
• Internet routing protocols
• Routing within a broadcast LAN
• Multicast routing
• Routing with policy constraints
• Routing for mobile nodes
• Summary

Error Control

• Causes of bit errors
• Bit-error detection and correction
• Causes of packet errors
• Packet-error detection and correction
• Summary

Flow Control

• Model
• Classification
• Open-loop flow control
• Closed-loop flow control
• Hybrid flow control
• Summary

Quality of Service

• Introduction
• An economic framework for QoS
• Traffic models
• Traffic classes
• Time scales of traffic management to achieve QoS
• Scheduling
• Renegotiation
• Signaling
• Admission control
• Peak-load pricing
• Capacity planning
• Summary

Volume III: Practice

Some portions of the Practice section were presented at TECS week (http://www.tcs-trddc.com/TECS%2709/tecsweek_home.html) in Pune, India. Here is a pointer to the abstract of the lectures a