Advances in Network Management

The author raises essential issues at stake and brings the necessary expertise and experience identifying the challenges and proposing recommendations of great value! --Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President, 2009 Ding explores new management solutions, paradigms, protocols, and techniques that are being developed to keep up with the increasing size and complexity of computer and communication networks. His treatment ranges from basic concepts to research level material, and is suitable for researchers, advanced students, professional network managers, and network designers and planners. He covers the evolution of networks and of network management, theories and techniques for network management, managing emerging networks and services, and autonomic computing and self-management. --Book News, June 2010 This book deals with different network management techniques. It presents theory and practice related to commonly used as well as new protocols. The author describes management systems architectures and corresponding standards. He explains, in detail, how protocol components communicate with each other. All parts of the book are supported by diagrams which help the reader to understand complex issues of network resources management. ! This book is a good source for every computer specialist who really wants to broaden his/her knowledge of computer network administration. --Jozef Wozniak (Gdansk) in Zentralblatt MATH, 1196-1