An essential resource on the future of IP networks

Everyone agrees that Internet Protocol (IP) has played and will play a major role in the evolution of networks and services. The exact nature and scope of that role, however, remains a point of discussion. Assembling the foremost experts in their respective fields, editors Salah Aidarous and Thomas Plevyak present the community with an invaluable resource for research and development in Managing IP Networks: Challenges and Opportunities.

Issues related to end-to-end network and service management, for example, will dramatically impact the future of IP networks, yet there remains a scholarly deficit between the significance of these topics and their presence in the current literature. Aidarous and Plevyak make up this difference, addressing these and other critical challenges affecting the growth of IP networks, with contributions from:

• Paul Levine
• Joberto Martins
• Burkhard Stiller
• Mostafa Hashem Sherif
• Andrea Fumagalli
• Javier Aracil
• Luca Valcarenghi

Network operations engineers, computer scientists, and management software vendors, as well as professionals in the continuing education and research and development communities, will find Managing IP Networks to be an invaluable addition to their professional libraries.

Electrical Engineering Telecommunications Network Management Technologies and Implementations A follow-up to Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications (IEEE Press 1994), this collection of original chapters written by leading experts in the field brings together a full range of applications topics in telecommunications network management. Telecommunications Network Management illustrates how related technology advancements in the telecommunications and computing industries can help engineers achieve cost-effective, end-to-end management of networks. The reader will understand how information modeling and distributed management help to simplify network representation, introduce computing platforms, and reduce operations costs. This book will help engineers and technical managers who face the challenge of integrating multiple technologies, working with multiple vendors, and identifying different management requirements. Topics covered include:

• Information modeling
• New software paradigms
• Distributed management
• Management of CATV and wireless networks
• Software applications lifecycle

Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications Telecommunications Network Management Into the 21st Century Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applications This leading-edge reference is a superb presentation of the latest in telecommunications network management. Co-edited by Salah Aidarous of NEC America and Thomas Plevyak of Bell Atlantic, Telecommunications Network Management Into the 21st Century features original chapters from prominent experts in the field. Thorough and up-to-date, this indispensable book covers the timely application of forward-looking network management techniques, which is the key to fully realizing future information industry capabilities. Key topics covered include:

• Principles of network management
• Network management protocol standards
• Telecommunications management network
• Domestic and international OSI management standards
• The object-oriented approach to integrated network management
• Modeling and simulation in network management
• Knowledge-based network management
• Configuration management
• Fault management
• Network performance management
• Distributed restoration of the transport network