Preface¶
This is the current draft of the second edition of the Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice.
The first edition of this ebook has been written by Olivier Bonaventure. Laurent Vanbever, Virginie Van den Schriek, Damien Saucez and Mickael Hoerdt have contributed to exercises. Pierre Reinbold designed the icons used to represent switches and Nipaul Long has redrawn many figures in the SVG format. Stephane Bortzmeyer sent many suggestions and corrections to the text. Additional information about the textbook is available at http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/CNP3
Note
Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice, (c) 2011, Olivier Bonaventure, Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and the collaborators listed above, used under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license made possible by funding from The Saylor Foundation’s Open Textbook Challenge in order to be incorporated into Saylor.org’ collection of open courses available at http://www.saylor.org. Full license terms may be viewed at : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
About the author¶
Olivier Bonaventure is currently professor at Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where he leads the IP Networking Lab . His research has been focused on Internet protocols for more than twenty years. Together with his Ph.D. students, he has developed traffic engineering techniques, performed various types of Internet measurements, improved the performance of routing protocols such as BGP and IS-IS and participated to the development of new Internet protocols including shim6, LISP and Multipath TCP. He frequently contributes to standardisation within the IETF.