Useful Networking Texts & Theses

General

• Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach.
• S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking.
• Jean Walrand, Communication Networks: A First Course.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed. (Search for Tanenbaum on the Prentice Hall site).
• 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.
• Craig Partridge, Gigabit Networking.
• Stallings.

Routing, High-Speed Networks

• 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).
• BGP4

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite

• 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).

Multicast

• 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.
• Sanjoy Paul, Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Search for it on Amazon using the keyword "Sanjoy Paul"
• Ken Miller

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, 1998.

Performance, Modeling

• Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Wiley, 1991.
• Len Kleinrock, Queueing Theory.

Programmable Networks

• David Wetherall, Service Introduction in an Active Network, PhD thesis, M.I.T., 1999.
• Elan Amir, An Agent-based approach to Multimedia Transmission over Heterogeneous Environments, PhD thesis, U.C. Berkeley, 1998.