backbone flows, 405
bandwidth, 41
best-effort applications, 64
best-effort networks, 34, 35
best-effort service, 33
best-effort service offerings, 37
best-effort service requests, 37
BGP, 285
BGPv4, 285
bidirectional flow, 161
black-box method, 418–420
book, overview, 3
broadcast domain, 416
broadcast technologies, 394
bulk data transport applications, 70
business management, 299