Network Calculus A Theory of Deterministic Queuing Systems for the Internet /

• Main Authors: Le Boudec, Jean-Yves (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Thiran, Patrick (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2050
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Operating systems (Computers).; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Application software.; Information storage and retrieval.; Popular Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Operating Systems.; Coding and Information Theory.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.

Network Calculus is a set of recent developments that provide deep insights into flow problems encountered in the Internet and in intranets. The first part of the book is a self-contained, introductory course on network calculus. It presents the core of network calculus, and shows how it can be appl...

Table of Contents:

• Network Calculus
• Application of Network Calculus to the Internet
• Basic Min-plus and Max-plus Calculus
• Min-plus and Max-plus System Theory
• Optimal Multimedia Smoothing
• FIFO Systems and Aggregate Scheduling
• Adaptive and Packet Scale Rate Guarantees
• Time Varying Shapers
• Systems with Losses.