Traffic Management in IP-Based Communications provides a comprehensive discussion on how to effectively and efficiently manage traffic over the Internet. This book offers practical traffic management solutions in the latest technologies, including Voice-over IP (VoIP), peer-to-peer, UMTS networks, IPv6, and optical networks. It examines performance-related issues of traffic control techniques as well as economic issues such as charging and accounting on Quality of Service (QoS). It illustrates why and how QoS can be enforced by proper traffic management. This book is ideal for work in network operations engineering, research and development, and computer science.
