Guide to Reliable Internet Services and Applications

✍ Scribed by Charles R. Kalmanek, Y. Richard Yang (auth.), Charles R. Kalmanek, Sudip Misra, Yang (Richard) Yang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 637
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Internet is a critical infrastructure supporting our information-based society. Our dependence on this infrastructure is similar to our dependence on the world's power grids and global transportation systems. Failures of the network infrastructure or major applications running on it can have an enormous financial and social cost, with serious consequences to the organizations and consumers that depend on these services.

Supporting reliable networks and networked application services involves some of the most complex engineering and operational challenges that are dealt with in any industry. This unique and valuable guide addresses the challenges faced by service providers and the approaches they use to deliver reliable services to their users. The book offers a systematic, inter-disciplinary approach and coverage of practical problems arising in real, operational deployments. Leading practitioners and researchers present their unique perspectives on the subject matter, and provide "best practices" to help translate ideas into practice.

Topics and features:

• Introduces the challenges of building reliable networks and services, presenting an overview of the structure of a large ISP backbone network
• Examines network reliability modeling and network planning, covering router elements and their failure modes, and providing a theoretical grounding in performance and reliability modeling
• Investigates inter-domain reliability and overlay networks, presenting existing solutions and possible future research directions, and reviewing how overlay applications can increase network resilience
• Explores the critical function of network configuration management, and considers auditing from the perspective of bottom-up, network-wide configuration validation
• Discusses network measurement, with a focus on reliability and performance monitoring, covering both data-plane and control-plane measurements

• Covers network management systems and the tasks involved in supporting day-to-day operations of an IP network, including fault diagnosis, trouble-shooting, security management, and disaster recovery
• Presents an approach to the design and development of reliable network application software, and provides a comprehensive overview of server capacity and performance engineering

This comprehensive text/reference on reliable Internet services and applications is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course, and will be of value to researchers seeking to understand the challenges faced by service providers and to identify areas that are ripe for research. The guidebook will be particularly useful to practitioners who want to broaden their understanding of the field, and/or to deepen their knowledge of the fundamentals.

Charles R. Kalmanek is Vice President of Networking and Services Research in AT&T Labs. Dr. Sudip Misra is an Assistant Professor at the School of IT, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Dr. Y. Richard Yang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Challenges of Building Reliable Networks and Networked Application Services....Pages 3-17
Structural Overview of ISP Networks....Pages 19-93
Front Matter....Pages 96-96
Reliability Metrics for Routers in IP Networks....Pages 97-112
Network Performability Evaluation....Pages 113-135
Robust Network Planning....Pages 137-177
Front Matter....Pages 180-180
Interdomain Routing and Reliability....Pages 181-220
Overlay Networking and Resiliency....Pages 221-251
Front Matter....Pages 254-254
Network Configuration Management....Pages 255-275
Network Configuration Validation....Pages 277-316
Front Matter....Pages 318-318
Measurements of Data Plane Reliability and Performance....Pages 319-355
Measurements of Control Plane Reliability and Performance....Pages 357-394
Front Matter....Pages 396-396
Network Management: Fault Management, Performance Management, and Planned Maintenance....Pages 397-445
Network Security – A Service Provider View....Pages 447-515
Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency....Pages 517-543
Front Matter....Pages 546-546
Building Large-Scale, Reliable Network Services....Pages 547-579
Capacity and Performance Engineering for Networked Application Servers: A Case Study in E-mail Platform Planning....Pages 581-627
Back Matter....Pages 629-643

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks