Useful Networking Texts & Theses

General

• Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach.
• Jim Kurose and Keith Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison Wesley Longman, 2001.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed. (Search for Tanenbaum on the Prentice Hall site).
• S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking.
• Jean Walrand, Communication Networks: A First Course.
• Dmitri Bertsekas and Robert Gallager, Data Networks, 2nd ed. (Search for Bertsekas on the Prentice Hall site).
• Jean Walrand and Pravin Varaiya, High-Performance Communication Networks.

Internetworking and Routing

• Christian Huitema, Routing in the Internet. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site).
• Radia Perlman, Interconnections: Bridges and Routers, Addison Wesley.
• Martha Steenstrup, Routing in Communication Networks. (Search for Steenstrup on the Prentice Hall site).
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols.
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation.
• W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Datagram Protocols.
• Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1: Principles, Protocols and Architecture, 3rd ed. (Search for Comer on the Prentice Hall site).
• Christian Huitema, IPv6: The New Internet Protocol, 2nd ed. (Search for Huitema on the Prentice Hall site).
• John Stewart III, BGP4, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
• Nicholas G. Feamster, Proactive Techniques for Correct and Predictable Internet Routing, PhD thesis, MIT, October 2005.

Resource Management

• S. Keshav, Congestion Control in Computer Networks, PhD Thesis, UC Berkeley, 1992.
• Ion Stoica, Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet, PhD thesis, CMU, October 2001.
• Dina Katabi, Decoupling Congestion Control from the Bandwidth Allocation Policy and its Application to High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks, PhD thesis, MIT, March 2003.
• Grenville Armitage, Quality of Service in IP Networks, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 2000.
• Kalevi Kilkki, Differentiated Services for the Internet, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

Wireless and Mobility

• J. Solomon, Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged.
• Charlie Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practices.Vijay Garg and Joseph Wilkes Wireless and Personal Communication Systems.
• Hari Balakrishnan, Reliable Data Transport over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, PhD thesis, UC Berkeley, August 1998.

Network Services (Overlays, P2P, Web, DNS, multicast, etc.)

• David G. Andersen, Improving End-to-End Internet Availability Using Overlay Networks, PhD thesis, MIT, December 2004.
• O'Reilly P2P book
• Sylvia Ratnasamy, A Scalable Content-Addressable Network , PhD thesis, UC Berkeley, 2004.
• Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jennifer Rexford, Web Protocols and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 2001.
• P. Ablitz and C. Liu, DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly, 1998
• Stephen Deering, Multicast Routing in a Datagram Internetwork, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 1991.
• Steven McCanne, Scalable Compression and Transmission of Internet Multicast Video, PhD thesis, UC Berkeley, 1996.
• David Wetherall, Service Introduction in an Active Network, PhD thesis, M.I.T., 1999.

Performance & Modeling, Network Measurement

• Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Wiley, 1991.
• V. Paxson. Measurements and Analysis of End-to-End Internet Dynamics. PhD thesis, University of California Berkeley, 1997.
  

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