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Enhancing LAN Performance

ISBN: 0849319420
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 111

Authors: Gilbert Held

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Enhancing LAN Performance, Fourth Edition
• Preface
• Chapter 1: LAN Performance Issues
• 1.2 Ethernet, Token Ring and ATM Frame and Cell Operations
• 1.3 Estimating Network Traffic
• 1.4 Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
• 1.5 Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
• 1.6 Determining Availability Levels
• 1.7 Ethernet Network Performance
• 1.8 Token Ring Network Performance
• 1.9 ATM network performance
• 1.10 Working with Images
• 1.11 Using Intelligent Switches
• 1.12 Monitoring Tools
• 1.13 Transmission Optimization
• Chapter 2: Ethernet, Token Ring, and ATM Frame and Cell Operations
• 2.2 Token Ring Frame Formats
• 2.3 Frame Overhead
• 2.4 ATM and the ATM Cell
• 2.5 The ATM Adaptation Layer
• 2.6 The ATM Layer
• 2.7 The Physical Layer
• 2.8 Network Interfaces
• 2.9 The ATM Cell Header
• 2.10 ATM Connections and Cell Switching
• 2.11 Types of Switches
• 2.12 Using Connection Identifiers
• 2.13 Cell Overhead
• Chapter 3: Estimating Network Traffic
• 3.2 Network Modification
• 3.3 Automating Worksheet Computations
• Chapter 4: Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
• 4.1 Waiting Line Analysis
• 4.2 Determining an Optimum Line Operating Rate
• 4.3 Examining Single and Multiple Communications Circuits
• 4.4 Buffer Memory Considerations
• Chapter 5: Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
• 5.1 Sizing Methods
• 5.2 Telephone Terminology Relationships
• 5.3 Traffic Measurements
• 5.4 The Erlang Traffic Formula
• 5.5 The Poisson Formula
• 5.6 Applying the Equipment Sizing Process
• Chapter 6: Using the Availability Level as a Decision Criterion
• 6.1 Availability
• 6.2 Automating Availability Computations
• Chapter 7: Estimating Ethernet Network Performance
• 7.1 CSMACD Network Performance
• 7.2 Using Bridges to Adjust the Network
• Chapter 8: Estimating Token Ring Network Performance
• 8.1 Token Ring Traffic Modeling
• 8.2 Bridge and Router Performance Requirements
• Chapter 9: ATM Performance
• 9.2 LAN Emulation
• Chapter 10: Working with Images
• 10.1 Image Basics
• 10.2 Examining Image Formats
• 10.3 Hardware Considerations
• 10.4 Web Server Considerations
• Chapter 11: Using Intelligent Switches
• 11.1 Conventional Hub Bottlenecks
• 11.2 Switching Operations
• 11.3 Layer 2 LAN Switch
• Chapter 12: LAN Monitoring Tools
• 12.2 EtherVision
• Chapter 13: Transmission Optimization Techniques
• 13.1 Filtering
• 13.2 Precedence and Express Queuing
• 13.3 Data Compression
• 13.4 Ethernet Frame Truncation
• 13.5 Switched Network Use for Overcoming Congestion
• 13.6 Network Interface Card
• 13.7 Change Network Routing and Advertising Protocols
• Appendix A: Review Problems
• Chapter 3: Estimating Network Traffic
• Chapter 4: Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
• Chapter 5: Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
• Chapter 6: Using the Availability Level as a Decision Criterion
• Chapter 7: Estimating Ethernet Network Performance
• Chapter 8: Estimating Token Ring Network Performance
• Chapter 9: ATM Performance
• Chapter 10: Working with Images
• Chapter 11: Using Intelligent Switches
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G-H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W-Z
• Index_Numbers
• List of Figures
• List of Tables