Guide to Reliable Internet Services and Applications / Edition 1

by Charles R. Kalmanek, Sudip Misra, Yang (Richard) Yang

Overview

An oft-repeated adage among telecommunication providers goes, “There are ve things that matter: reliability, reliability, reliability, time to market, and cost. If you can’t do all ve, at least do the first three. ” Yet, designing and operating reliable networks and services is a Herculean task. Building truly reliable components is unacceptably expensive, forcing us to c- struct reliable systems out of unreliable components. The resulting systems are inherently complex, consisting of many different kinds of components running a variety of different prools that interact in subtle ways. Inter-networkssuch as the Internet span multiple regions of administrative control, from campus and cor- rate networks to Internet Service Providers, making good end-to-end performance a shared responsibility borne by sometimes uncooperative parties. Moreover, these networks consist not only of routers, but also lower-layer devices such as optical switches and higher-layer components such as rewalls and proxies. And, these components are highly con gurable, leaving ample room for operator error and buggy software. As if that were not dif cult enough, end users understandably care about the performance of their higher-level applications, which has a complicated relationship with the behavior of the underlying network. Despite these challenges, researchers and practitioners alike have made trem- dous strides in improving the reliability of modern networks and services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848828278
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	05/06/2010
Series:	Computer Communications and Networks
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	644
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction and Reliable Network Design

1 The Challenges of Building Reliable Networks and Networked Application Services Charles R. Kalmanek Y. Richard Yang 3

2 Structural Overview of ISP Networks Robert D. Doverspike K.K. Ramakrishnan Chris Chase 19

Part II Reliability Modeling and Network Planning

3 Reliability Metrics for Routers in IP Networks Yaakov Kogan|97

4 Network Performability Evaluation Kostas N. Oikonomou 113

5 Robust Network Planning Matthew Roughan 137

Part III Interdomain Reliability and Overlay Networks

6 Interdomain Routing and Reliability Feng Wang Lixin Gao 181

7 Overlay Networking and Resiliency Bobby Bhattacharjee Michael Rabinovich 221

Part IV Configuration Management

8 Network Configuration Management Brian D. Freeman 255

9 Network Configuration Validation Sanjai Narain Rajesh Talpade Gary Levin 277

Part V Network Measurement

10 Measurements of Data Plane Reliability and Performance Nick Duffield Al Morton 319

11 Measurements of Control Plane Reliability and Performance Lee Breslau Aman Shaikh 357

Part VI Network and Security Management, and Disaster Preparedness

12 Network Management: Fault Management, Performance Management, and Planned Maintenance Jennifer M. Yates Zihui Ge 397

13 Network Security - A Service Provider View Brian Rexroad Jacobus Van der Merwe 447

14 Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency Susan R. Bailey 517

Part VII Reliable Application Services

15 Building Large-Scale, Reliable Network Services Alan L. Glasser 547

16 Capacity and Performance Engineering for Networked Application Servers: A Case Study in E-mail Platform Planning Paul Reeser 581

Index 629