Network Design and Analysis, Illustrated

* An open source lab project - Givesstudents and instructors hands-on experience by dealing directly with the routing protocols that ISPs use. - For universities on tight budgets, open source projects are cost-free. * Practical optimization methods using a graduated approach - Uses programming exercises that incrementally build the elements of a small-scale network design capability. * Valuable hands-on laboratory exercises:- Uses a free open-source utility, quagga (www.quagga.net) that implements all the typical routing protocols that Internet Service Providers use.

Several commercial ISPs are using this software in Linux routers. - Enhances students' abilities to obtain jobs and grounds them in the principles of routing protocols. * Comparison of formal optimization with heuristics. * Second order statistics made accessible to senior undergrads - Gives students an excellent background on the most important methods to deal with traffic characterization. * Approximately 20 multiple choice, five pencil & paper exercises, five hands-on programming projects, and a case study for each chapter. * Powerpoints produced by the authors. * Solutions to all problems and hands-on exercises and lab projects.