Book:
Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks; book on network design , network design book
Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design
in
Communication and Computer Networks
by
Michal Pioro and Deep Medhi
(Foreword by Debasis Mitra, Vice-President, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Member, National Academy of Engineering)
Well, since you've arrived at this page, you must be curious about what I've been up to lately!
This book has been a major project; it came out on July 1, 2004.
This is a book on network design; it encompasses topics from basic network
design to protection and restoration design, to multi-layer network design while taking into account routing and flow requirement as applicable in different network architecture, protocol and technologies.
This book is geared for diverse groups of audiences: from students to practitioners to researchers; the material is organized in such a way that each of these groups can take advantage of this book.
The book is published by
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (an imprint of Elsevier).
ISBN: 0-12-557189-5.
Here's the
direct link to MKP's site about the book. Either you can buy it from MKP's link, or at Amazon.com (US), or,
Amazon.co.uk (UK), or,
Amazon.fr (France),
Amazon.de (Germany),
Amazon.co.jp (Japan),
Angus & Robertson (Australia),
or,
FirstAndSecond.com (India).
Chapter-2 is available on-line for you to download/view/print it. And, here's the Table of Contents.
FOREWORD (excerpt)
Researchers, students, and practitioners of network design will warmly welcome the
book to their shelves. It will serve as a beacon and be consulted for many years to come.
-- Dr. Debasis Mitra, Vice President,
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and Member, National Academy of Engineering
REVIEWS
Pioro and Medhi's book is very refreshing and gives a comprehensive view of network design. It unifies many important topics on network design that are not found in one place; for example, this book provides the first thorough treatment of multi-layer design. Practitioners will find the book useful due to its development of both models and algorithms that are more applicable to real-world problems.
--Dr. Robert D. Doverspike: Bell Labs, Bellcore (now Telcordia), and AT&T Labs – Research, USA
The authors successfully bridge the gap between networking technology and system modeling and optimization, providing a comprehensive and authoritative reference on communication and computer network design through mathematical optimization-oriented modeling. It is an essential book for graduate students and academia and industry researchers.
--Professor Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This book provides an in-depth view of network design problems both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. It will become the reference work in the area of telecommunication network design for the years to come.
--Professor André Girard, INRS-EMT, Canada
There is a unwritten golden rule about written technical books:
Every book must have a list of errata! Click here to obtain the
latest list of errata. If you find any typos, please let us know;
we'll incorporate them in a future release.
Solutions to selected exercises have been included in the book.
Solutions to all exercises will soon be available from
the publisher's web-site (this is available only for course instructors).
If you're a course instructor, you can also contact me directly (so far, we have completed solutions to all exercises through Chapter-9).
Presentation material for use in classroom to go with the book
is currently being planned. No date yet on when we'll have this ready.
I've been following sales-rank in Amazon once in a while. Here's my log so far:
Pre-publication Amazon sales rank: 1,571,049 (US), 112,792 (UK) (Now, how do you get a sales rank when the book isn't out yet!)
Updated June 28, 2004: Amazon sales rank: 1,214,123 (US), 133,995(UK)
[Book came out the first week of July 2004]
Updated July 18, 2004: Amazon sales rank: 1,061,240 (US), 205,001(UK)
Updated August 29, 2004: Amazon sales rank: 884,383 (US; broke one-millionth-barrier!), 139,487(UK)
Updated October 30, 2004: Amazon sales rank: 88,804 (US; broke one-hundred-thousand barrier!)
Updated November 27, 2004: Amazon sales rank: 138,702 (US; well,
already reached the optimal value?), 196,976 (UK)
Deep Medhi, dmedhi at umkc.edu