Routing TCP/IP, Volume II: CCIE Professional Development, Second Edition The definitive guide to Cisco exterior routing protocols and advanced IP routing issues-now completely updated Praised in its first edition for its readability, breadth, and depth, Routing TCP/IP, Volume II, Second Edition will help you thoroughly understand modern exterior routing protocols and implement them with Cisco routers. Best-selling author Jeff Doyle offers crucial knowledge for every network professional who must manage routers to support growth and change. You'll find configuration and troubleshooting lessons that would cost thousands to learn in a classroom, plus up-to-date case studies, examples, exercises, and solutions. Routing TCP/IP, Volume II, Second Edition covers routing and switching techniques that form the foundation of all Cisco CCIE tracks. Its expert content and CCIE structured review makes it invaluable for anyone pursuing this elite credential. While its examples focus on Cisco IOS, the book illuminates concepts that are fundamental to virtually all modern networks and routing platforms. Therefore, it serves as an exceptionally practical reference for network designers, administrators, and engineers in any environment. * Review core inter-domain routing concepts, and discover how exterior routing protocols have evolved * Master BGP's modern operational components * Effectively configure and troubleshoot BGP * Control path attributes and selection to define better routes * Take full advantage of NLRI and routing policies * Provide for load balancing and improved network scalability * Extend BGP to multiprotocol environments via MP-BGP * Deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and scale IP multicast routing * Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM): Dense Mode, Sparse Mode, and Bidirectional * Operate, configure, and troubleshoot NAT in IPv4-IPv4 (NAT44) and IPv6-IPv4 (NAT64) environments * Avoid policy errors and other mistakes that damage network performance This book is part of the CCIE Professional Development series,which offers expert-level instruction on network design, deployment, and support methodologies to help networking professionals manage complex networks and prepare for the CCIE exams. Category: Networking Covers: BGP, Multicast, and NAT

Discover the very latest game-theoretic approaches for designing, modeling, and optimizing emerging wireless communication networks and systems with this unique text. Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment throughout, it explains basic concepts and theories for designing novel distributed wireless networking mechanisms, describes emerging game-theoretic tools from an engineering perspective, and provides an extensive overview of recent applications. A wealth of new tools is covered - including matching theory and games with bounded rationality - and tutorial chapters show how to use these tools to solve current and future wireless networking problems in areas such as 5G networks, network virtualization, software defined networks, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, context-aware networks, green communications, and security. This is an ideal resource for telecommunications engineers, and researchers in industry and academia who are working on the design of efficient, scalable, and robust communication protocols for future wireless networks, as well as graduate students in these fields.

Wireless has finally come of age. With a significant jump in throughput over previous standards, 802.11n is the first wireless technology that doesn't trade speed for mobility, and users have stormed onto wireless networks with a passion. In this concise guide, Matthew Gast--chair of the IEEE group that produced revision 802.11-2012--shows you why wireless has become the default method of connecting to a network, and provides technical details you need to plan, design, and deploy 802.11n today.

Building a network for the multitude of new devices is now a strategic decision for network engineers everywhere. This book gives you an in-depth look at key parts of 802.11n, and shows you how to achieve an Ethernet-free wireless office.Learn how MIMO's multiple data streams greatly increase wireless speedDiscover how 802.11n modifications improve MAC efficiencyExamine advanced PHY features such as beanforming and space-time code blockUse advanced MAC features to maintain interoperability with older devicesPlan an 802.11n network by determining traffic demand, key applications, power requirements, and securityChoose the architecture, select hardware, and plan coverage to design and build your network

The next frontier for wireless LANs is 802.11ac, a standard that increases throughput beyond one gigabit per second. This concise guide provides in-depth information to help you plan for 802.11ac, with technical details on design, network operations, deployment, and monitoring. Author Matthew Gast - an industry expert who led the development of 802.11-2012 and security task groups at the Wi-Fi Alliance - explains how 802.11ac will not only increase the speed of your network, but its capacity as well. Whether you need to serve more clients with your current level of throughput, or serve your existing client load with higher throughput, 802.11ac is the solution. This book gets you started. Understand how the 802.11ac protocol works to improve the speed and capacity of a wireless LAN Explore how beamforming increases speed capacity by improving link margin, and lays the foundation for multi-user MIMO Learn how multi-user MIMO increases capacity by enabling an AP to send data to multiple clients simultaneously Plan when and how to upgrade your network to 802.11ac by evaluating client devices, applications, and network connections

HTTP/2 introduces request multiplexing and request prioritization, which allows the web to handle the ever-increasing traffic that makes up modern websites. HTTP/2 in Action is a complete guide to HTTP/2, one of the core protocols of the web. Concentrating practical matters, this interesting book presents key HTTP/2 concepts such as frames, streams, and multiplexing and explores how they affect the performance and behaviour of your web sites. Key Features * Upgrading to HTTP/2 * Frames, streams, and multiplexing * Implementing server push Audience Written for developers or website administrators with a basic understanding of web development. Some chapters use JavaScriptbased examples but the techniques should apply to any HTTP/2 implementation. Author Bio Barry Pollard is a professional software developer with nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical usage of technology.

Whether you are a developer, engineer, researcher or student, this practical guide gives you everything you need to know about NFC technology and its applications. You will learn what differentiates NFC from other short-range technologies such as contactless cards, RFID and Bluetooth, as well as discovering the opportunities it provides, from a fast and instinctive user interface with no infrastructure requirements to the world of Secure Elements, Trusted Service Managers, mobile wallets and the Internet of Things. With critical applications in areas including advertising, retail and transportation, this book demonstrates how you can use NFC technology practically to make transactions easier and quicker. All of this is supplemented with an array of in-depth case studies and real-life examples to reinforce your understanding, along with detailed coverage of the problems associated with the wider commercial introduction of NFC and strategies that can be used to aid its future development.

Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology with a wide range of applications in military and civilian domains. The book begins by detailing the basic principles and concepts of wireless sensor networks, including information gathering, energy management and the structure of sensory nodes. It proceeds to examine advanced topics, covering localisation, topology, security and evaluation of wireless sensor networks, highlighting international research being carried out in this area. Finally, it features numerous examples of applications of this technology to a range of domains, such as wireless, multimedia, underwater and underground wireless sensor networks. The concise but clear presentation of the important principles, techniques and applications of wireless sensor networks makes this guide an excellent introduction for anyone new to the subject, as well as an ideal reference for practitioners and researchers.

With ever-increasing demands on capacity, quality of service, speed, and reliability, current Internet systems are under strain and under review. Combining contributions from experts in the field, this book captures the most recent and innovative designs, architectures, protocols, and mechanisms that will enable researchers to successfully build the next-generation Internet. A broad perspective is provided, with topics including innovations at the physical/transmission layer in wired and wireless media, as well as the support for new switching and routing paradigms at the device and sub-system layer. The proposed alternatives to TCP and UDP at the data transport layer for emerging environments are also covered, as are the novel models and theoretical foundations proposed for understanding network complexity. Finally, new approaches for pricing and network economics are discussed, making this ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners who need to know about designing, constructing, and operating the next-generation Internet.

Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet - at home, in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provides internet access for remote communities where it is deployed by volunteers in community-based networks, by operators in 'hotspots' and by municipalities in 'hotzones'. This book traces the global success of Wi-Fi to the landmark change in radio spectrum policy by the US FCC in 1985, the initiative by NCR Corporation to start development of Wireless-LANs and the drive for an open standard IEEE 802.11, released in 1997. It also singles out and explains the significance of the initiative by Steve Jobs at Apple to include Wireless-LAN in the iBook, which moved the product from the early adopters to the mass market. The book explains these developments through first-hand accounts by industry practitioners and concludes with reflections and implications for government policy and firm strategy.

This book is where your adventures with Bluetooth LE begin. You'll start your journey by getting familiar with your hardware options: Arduino, BLE modules, computers (including Raspberry Pi!), and mobile phones. From there, you'll write code and wire circuits to connect off-the-shelf sensors, and even go all the way to writing your own Bluetooth Services. Along the way you'll look at lightbulbs, locks, and Apple's iBeacon technology, as well as get an understanding of Bluetooth security--both how to beat other people's security, and how to make your hardware secure."

Approaching wireless Internet security from the position of system architecture, this text describes the cryptographic and protocol-based tools for Internet security with a focus on understanding the system architecture of existing Internet security, and on developing architectural changes for new security services. Introducing the topics of security threats in wireless networks, security services for countering those threats, and the process of defining functional architecture for network systems, the author also discusses examples of wireless Internet security systems such as wireless network access control, local IP subnet configuration and address resolution, and location privacy. Each chapter describes the basic network architecture and protocols for the system under consideration, the security threats faced, a functional architecture, and the important Internet protocols that implement the architecture. This is an ideal resource for graduate students of electrical engineering and computer science, as well as for engineers and system architects in the wireless network industry.

In the event of a disastrous event leading to the loss of communication networks, ad-hoc networks are a potent wireless communication resource because of their unique features including being quickly deployable and having a distributed nature, large coverage area, reduced cost, and more. Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETS) and vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETS) are the future technology and can solve many problems in e-commerce delivery through drones, agriculture, vaccine delivery, and more. The unique characteristics of these networks and special requirements have created new challenges for the research community in recent decades. Modelling and Simulation of Fast-Moving Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs and VANETs) enhances the modelling and simulation aspects of FANETS and VANETS and understands the protocols in mac layer and network layers for fast-moving ad-hoc networks. It presents simulations run using various simulation tools and measures the performance metrics of ad-hoc networks. Covering topics such as emulation tools, secure communication, and modelling software, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for computer scientists, IT specialists, business leaders and managers, supply chain and logistics management, libraries, students, government officials, international organizations, law enforcement, engineers, agriculturalists, researchers, and academicians.

The TCP/IP family of protocols have become the de facto standard in the world of networking, are found in virtually all computer communication systems, and form the basis of today's Internet. TCP/IP Essentials is a hands-on guide to TCP/IP technologies, and shows how the protocols are implemented in practice. The book contains a series of extensively tested laboratory experiments that span the various elements of protocol definition and behavior. Topics covered include bridges, routers, LANs, static and dynamic routing, multicast and realtime service, and network management and security. The experiments are described in a Linux environment, with parallel notes on Solaris implementation. The book includes many homework exercises, and supplementary material for instructors is available. The book is aimed at students of electrical and computer engineering and students of computer science taking courses in networking. It is also an ideal guide for engineers studying for networking certifications.

Explore Ansible Automation Platform and understand how the different pieces interact to standardize and scale automation Key Features Curated by a senior consultant at Red Hat with real-world examples to maximize use of Ansible Automation Platform Use roles and modules to create interactive playbooks in Ansible Automation Platform Discover best practices for simplifying management of Ansible Automation Platform Book DescriptionWhile you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management. The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You'll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You'll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you'll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub. By the end of this book, you'll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform. What you will learn Get the hang of different parts of Ansible Automation Platform and their maintenance Back up and restore an installation of Ansible Automation Platform Launch and configure basic and advanced workflows and jobs Create your own execution environment using CI/CD pipelines Interact with Git, Red Hat Authentication Server, and logging services Integrate the Automation controller with services catalog Use Automation Mesh to scale Automation Controller Who this book is forThis book is for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and automation engineers seeking to understand and maintain the controller part of Ansible Automation Platform. If you have basic knowledge of Ansible, can set up a virtual machine, or have OpenShift experience, and want to know more about scaling Ansible, this book is for you.

Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You'll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.

iOS processes data from its own onboard sensors, and now you can extend its reach with this simple, low-cost project. If you're an Objective-C programmer who likes to experiment, this book explains the basics of Arduino and other hardware components you need--and lets you have fun in the process.Learn how to connect the Arduino platform to any iOS deviceBuild a simple application to control your Arduino directly from an iPadGather measurements from an ultrasonic range finder and display them on your iPhoneConnect an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to an XBee radio networkExplore other methods for connecting external sensors to iOS, including Ethernet and the MIDI protocol

Industry 4.0, PLC and VFD wiring and programming made easy with this step-by-step guide that simplifies complex topics in industrial automation Key Features * Everything you need to know about Industrial Automation and Electronics * Learn how to build and monitor a project using SCADA and HMI * Explore emerging wireless technologies such as 5G to build smart factories Book Description By automating processes, industrial automation has become a "Solution" for all types of industries to reduce manual labour inputs and costs. Take a look at this book to discover the abilities you'll need to become an authority in industrial automation. This book will begin by defining Industrial Automation and describing its various forms, levels, and advantages. Various switches, sensors, and actuators will also be discussed. Next, you will learn about the Direct On-Line (DOL) starter and its accompanying components such as the circuit breaker, contactor, and overload relay. As you progress, you'll learn more about VFDs, their parameter settings, and how to wire and programme them for induction motor control. You'll also be able to run simulations to test your software to see if it's working or not. The book also includes a step-by-step guide that introduces other technologies including HMI and SCADA, as well as temperature, pressure, level, and flow measurement and transmitters. The final chapter contains crucial information on Industry 4.0 (Smart Factory) that will be helpful to individuals who need to comprehend the technology. By the end of this book, you will have gained knowledge right from basic to advanced levels of Industrial Automation and be able to design basic automated machines using sensors, actuators, and PLC. What you will learn * Understand industrial automation and its various application * Learn automation parts such as sensors, and motors * Know Industrial Control systems, principles of AC, DC, and Servo motors * Perform troubleshooting procedures on electrical devices * Discover Wireless Communication and network topologies * Explore industrial networks, wired and wireless networks, and 5G * Implement common industrial network protocols. Who This Book Is For The book is for someone who will be an Electronic/Industrial Engineers and IoT engineer, or anyone who wants to know about Industrial automation from scratch. Prior knowledge of Circuits and programming will be required.

Understand the world of modern network automation with Go and deepen your knowledge with insights from 10+ experts who have real-world hands-on experience with network automation and/or are using Go for network-related tasks Key Features A comprehensive guide to the world of modern network automation Use Go to build anything from repetitive task automation to complex distributed systems Over 30 practical, ready-to-use sample programs Book DescriptionGo's built-in first-class concurrency mechanisms make it an ideal choice for long-lived low-bandwidth I/O operations, which are typical requirements of network automation and network operations applications. This book provides a quick overview of Go and hands-on examples within it to help you become proficient with Go for network automation. It's a practical guide that will teach you how to automate common network operations and build systems using Go. The first part takes you through a general overview, use cases, strengths, and inherent weaknesses of Go to prepare you for a deeper dive into network automation, which is heavily reliant on understanding this programming language. You'll explore the common network automation areas and challenges, what language features you can use in each of those areas, and the common software tools and packages. To help deepen your understanding, you'll also work through real-world network automation problems and apply hands-on solutions to them. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with Go and have a solid grasp on network automation. What you will learn Understand Go programming language basics via network-related examples Find out what features make Go a powerful alternative for network automation Explore network automation goals, benefits, and common use cases Discover how to interact with network devices using a variety of technologies Integrate Go programs into an automation framework Take advantage of the OpenConfig ecosystem with Go Build distributed and scalable systems for network observability Who this book is forThis book is for all network engineers, administrators, and other network practitioners looking to understand what network automation is and how the Go programming language can help develop network automation solutions. As the first part of the book offers a comprehensive overview of Go's main features, this book is suitable for beginners with a solid grasp on programming basics.

Expertly analyze common protocols such as TCP, IP, and ICMP, along with learning how to use display and capture filters, save and export captures, create IO and stream graphs, and troubleshoot latency issues Key Features Gain a deeper understanding of common protocols so you can easily troubleshoot network issues Explore ways to examine captures to recognize unusual traffic and possible network attacks Learn advanced techniques, create display and capture filters, and generate IO and stream graphs Book DescriptionWireshark is a popular and powerful packet analysis tool that helps network administrators investigate latency issues and potential attacks. Over the years, there have been many enhancements to Wireshark's functionality. This book will guide you through essential features so you can capture, display, and filter data with ease. In addition to this, you'll gain valuable tips on lesser-known configuration options, which will allow you to complete your analysis in an environment customized to suit your needs. This updated second edition of Learn Wireshark starts by outlining the benefits of traffic analysis. You'll discover the process of installing Wireshark and become more familiar with the interface. Next, you'll focus on the Internet Suite and then explore deep packet analysis of common protocols such as DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and ARP. The book also guides you through working with the expert system to detect network latency issues, create I/O and stream graphs, subset traffic, and save and export captures. Finally, you'll understand how to share captures using CloudShark, a browser-based solution for analyzing packet captures. By the end of this Wireshark book, you'll have the skills and hands-on experience you need to conduct deep packet analysis of common protocols and network troubleshooting as well as identify security issues. What you will learn Master network analysis and troubleshoot anomalies with Wireshark Discover the importance of baselining network traffic Correlate the OSI model with frame formation in Wireshark Narrow in on specific traffic by using display and capture filters Conduct deep packet analysis of common protocols: IP, TCP, and ARP Understand the role and purpose of ICMP, DNS, HTTP, and DHCP Create a custom configuration profile and personalize the interface Create I/O and stream graphs to better visualize traffic Who this book is forIf you are a network administrator, security analyst, student, or teacher and want to learn about effective packet analysis using Wireshark, then this book is for you. In order to get the most from this book, you should have basic knowledge of network fundamentals, devices, and protocols along with an understanding of different topologies.

Discover how to write high-quality character driver code, interface with userspace, work with chip memory, and gain an in-depth understanding of working with hardware interrupts and kernel synchronization Key Features Delve into hardware interrupt handling, threaded IRQs, tasklets, softirqs, and understand which to use when Explore powerful techniques to perform user-kernel interfacing, peripheral I/O and use kernel mechanisms Work with key kernel synchronization primitives to solve kernel concurrency issues Book DescriptionLinux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization is an ideal companion guide to the Linux Kernel Programming book. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for those new to Linux device driver development and will have you up and running with writing misc class character device driver code (on the 5.4 LTS Linux kernel) in next to no time. You'll begin by learning how to write a simple and complete misc class character driver before interfacing your driver with user-mode processes via procfs, sysfs, debugfs, netlink sockets, and ioctl. You'll then find out how to work with hardware I/O memory. The book covers working with hardware interrupts in depth and helps you understand interrupt request (IRQ) allocation, threaded IRQ handlers, tasklets, and softirqs. You'll also explore the practical usage of useful kernel mechanisms, setting up delays, timers, kernel threads, and workqueues. Finally, you'll discover how to deal with the complexity of kernel synchronization with locking technologies (mutexes, spinlocks, and atomic/refcount operators), including more advanced topics such as cache effects, a primer on lock-free techniques, deadlock avoidance (with lockdep), and kernel lock debugging techniques. By the end of this Linux kernel book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of writing Linux character device driver code for real-world projects and products. What you will learn Get to grips with the basics of the modern Linux Device Model (LDM) Write a simple yet complete misc class character device driver Perform user-kernel interfacing using popular methods Understand and handle hardware interrupts confidently Perform I/O on peripheral hardware chip memory Explore kernel APIs to work with delays, timers, kthreads, and workqueues Understand kernel concurrency issues Work with key kernel synchronization primitives and discover how to detect and avoid deadlock Who this book is forAn understanding of the topics covered in the Linux Kernel Programming book is highly recommended to make the most of this book. This book is for Linux programmers beginning to find their way with device driver development. Linux device driver developers looking to overcome frequent and common kernel/driver development issues, as well as perform common driver tasks such as user-kernel interfaces, performing peripheral I/O, handling hardware interrupts, and dealing with concurrency will benefit from this book. A basic understanding of Linux kernel internals (and common APIs), kernel module development, and C programming is required.