Network Infrastructure and Architecture

Krzysztof Iniewski, PhD, is a founder and President of CMOS Emerging Technologies, Inc., a high-technology consulting company in Vancouver, Canada. Previously, Dr. Iniewski served as a university professor and R&D manager. He holds twenty-eight international patents and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an editor of Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices; VLSI Circuits: A System Perspective; and VLSI Circuits for Bio-Medical Applications.Carl McCrosky, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). Previously, Dr. McCrosky was principal engineer with PMC-Sierra, Inc., professor of computer science at the University of Saskatchewan, chief scientist of HyperCore, Inc., and a partner in Andyne Computing, Ltd.Daniel Minoli has worked and published extensively in the technology field, with more than thirty years of hands-on experience in networking, IT, telecommunications, wireless, and video/IPTV. He has helped develop systems and solutions for such organizations as SES Americom, Prudential Securities, AT&T, Telcordia, New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and more.

• Preface. Part I: Optical Transmission.1. Introduction to Networking.2. Filer-Optic Transmission.3. Wavelength-Division Multiplexing.Part II: Networking Protocols.4. Sonet.5. TCP/IP Protocol Suite.6. Protocol Stacks.Part III: VLSI Chips.7. VLSI Integrated Circuits.8. Circuits for Optical-to-Electrical Conversion.Part IV: Data Switching.9. Physical Circuits Switching.10. Time-Division-Multipleured Switching.11. Packet and Cell Switching and Queuing.Part V: Networking.12. Network Elements.13. Network Design: Efficient, Survivable Networks.Index.