Managing bandwidth Book

	Introduction
1	Defining the scope of bandwidth management	3
2	Motivations for bandwidth management	21
3	A history of networking usage	41
4	Bandwidth today	55
5	Understanding traffic performance characteristics	65
6	The needs of different traffic types	91
7	An introduction to traffic management	115
8	Classification - identifying the traffic	129
9	Complications to classification	185
10	Traffic handling within a device	197
11	Traffic handling by path selection	231
12	Server-side delay	257
13	Directory infrastructures	275
14	Policy systems	287
15	Monitoring service levels in a network	309
16	The shape of bandwidth-managed networks	323
17	Practical bandwidth management	333
18	Case studies	343
19	Conclusions	373
A	An overview of TCP	387
B	Glossary	397
C	Bibliography and references	407
	Web sites	408
	Requests for Comments (RFCs) and Internet Drafts	409
	Index	413