8.2 Preparation

To be able to understand and apply the concepts in this chapter, you should be familiar with the basic concepts and mechanisms of performance. The basic concepts of performance were discussed in Chapters 1, 2, and 3, and the coupling of performance to traffic flows in Chapter 4 of this book. In addition, concepts of network architecture were presented in Chapter 5.

If you need additional information on network performance and performance mechanisms, some recommended sources include:

Internet QoS: Architectures and Mechanisms for Quality of Service, by Zheng Wang, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, March 2001
Designing Quality of Service Solutions for the Enterprise, by Eric D. Siegel, John Wiley & Sons, October 1999
High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication, by James Sterbenz and Joseph Touch, John Wiley & Sons, April 2001
Queuing Systems Theory, volume 1, by Leonard Kleinrock, John Wiley & Sons, January 1975
Requests for comments (RFCs) from the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC 2474 and 2475 in particular; available at www.ietf.org