本书主要介绍的是在ATM、IP和MPLS等高速网络中实现QoS控制所涉及的基础知识、理论、体系结构和技术。书中全面地概述了现有的QoS控制技术，并讲述了其实现方法。
本书所涉及的主题还包括：
准许控制和数据通信信道接受
流量访问控制
分组计划算法
分组公平排队的实现
缓冲管理
流与拥塞控制
QoS路由
差分服务的基本体系结构与概念模型
SONET与ATM
本书全面地讨论了工科学生所需要了解的QoS技术和体系结构，以及软件、硬件和系统设计的实践。

PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Nature of Traffic
1.2 Network Technologies
1.2.1 ATM
1.2.2 Internet Integrated Servies (Intserv)
1.2.3 Internet Differentiated Services (Diffserv)
1.2.4 Multiprotocol Label Switching(MPLS)
1.3 QoS Parameters
1.4 QoS Control Methods
1.4.1 Admission Control
1.4.2 Traffic Acces Control
1.4.3 Packet Scheduling
1.4.4 Packet Fair Queuing Implementation
1.4.5 Buffer Management
1.4.6 Flow and Congestion Control
1.4.7 QoS Routing
1.5 Summary
References
2 ADMISSION CONTROL
2.1 Deterministic Bound
2.2 Probabilistic Bound:Equivalent Bandwidth
2.2.1 Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Distribution
2.2.2 Fluid-Flow Approximation
2.2.3 Gaussian Distribution
2.2.4 Large-Deviation Approximation
2.2.5 Poisson Distribution
2.2.6 Measurement-Based Methods
2.3 CAC for ATM VBR Services
2.3.1 Worst-Case Traffic Model and CAC
2.3.2 Effective Bandwidth
2.3.3 Lucent's CAC
2.3.4 NEC's CAC
2.3.5 Tangged-Probability-Based CAC
2.4 CAC for Integrated Services Internet
2.4.1 Guaranteed Quality of Service
2.4.2 Controlled-Load Service
Referenced
3 TRAFFIC ACCESS CONTROL
3.1 ATM Traffic Contract and Control Algotithms
3.1.1 Traffic Contract
3.1.2 PCR Conformance,SCR,and BT
3.1.3 Cell Delay Variation Tolerance
3.1.4 Generic Cell Rate Algorithm
3.2 An ATM Shaping Multiplexer
3.2.1 Regularity Condition_Dual Leaky Buchet
3.2.2 ATM Shaping Multiplexer Algorithm
3.2.3 Implementation Architecture
3.2.4 Finite Bits Overflow Problem
3.2.5 Simulation Study
3.2.6 Summary
3.3 An Integrated Packet Shaper
3.3.1 Basics of a Packet Traffic Shaper
3.3.2 Integrating Traffic Shaping and WFI Scheduling
3.3.3 A Logical Structure of the WFI Packet Shaper
3.3.4 Implementation of the WFI Packet Shaper
3.4 Appendix:Bucket Size Determination
References
4 PACKET SCHEDULING
5 PACKET FAIR QUEUING IMPLEMENTATIONS
6 BUFFER MANAGEMENT
7 FLOW AND CONGESTION CONTROL
8 QoS ROUTING
9 DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES
10 MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING
APPENDIX SONET AND ATM PROTOCOLS
INDEX