Foundations of Modern Networking ─ SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud

Dr. William Stallings' SDN, NFV, and QoE: Foundations of Modern Networkingis a comprehensive and unified survey of modern networking technology and applications for today's technical professionals, business professionals, and students. Using the same teaching approach that has earned him 13 "Computer Science Textbook of the Year" Awards, Dr. Stallings imparts a thorough understanding of SDN technology: how it works, how it is deployed, and how enterprises of all sizes can use it to deliver superior Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). Step by step, Stallings illuminates a wide range of crucial issues and technologies associated with modern networking in modern cloud-oriented, mobile, and big data environments. He offers complete and self-contained coverage of each technology area, helping readers gain mastery without resorting to other reference material. Coverage includes:

• A new network paradigm: how revolutionary enterprise requirements and technologies are driving the need for complex, software-defined, QoS/QoE-aware networks
• SDN infrastructure: concepts, technology, components, interactions, standards (including OpenFlow), evaluation, deployment, migration, and usage
• User needs: Evolving QoS/QoE to identify customer needs, and tailoring modern networks to fully and flexibly respond (including coverage of Integrated Services Architecture (ISA), differentiates services, SLAs, IP performance metrics and QoE
• New QoE applications: OTT, IPTV, and more
• Modern network applications: cloud computing/services, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and more
• Security implications of SDN and cloud computing
• Career-related issues: changing roles of network professionals, new skill requirements, and how to educate yourself for a career in modern networking

To promote faster learning and deeper mastery, Stallings includes chapter learning objectives, keyword lists, summaries, and review questions; a complete glossary; and QR codes throughout, linking to the book's website and other resources.

Dr. William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer security, computer networking, and computer architecture. He has authored 18 textbooks, and, counting revised editions, a total of 70 books on various aspects of these subjects. His writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications, including theProceedings of the IEEE and ACM Computing Reviews. He has 13 times received the award for the best computer science textbook of the year from the Text and Academic Authors Association.

In over 30 years in the field, he has been a technical contributor, technical manager, and an executive with several high-technology firms. He has designed and implemented both TCP/IP-based and OSI-based protocol suites on a variety of computers and operating systems, ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. Currently, he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions.

He created and maintains the Computer Science Student Resource Site at ComputerScie nceStudent.com/. This site provides documents and links on a variety of subjects of general interest to computer science students (and professionals). He is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, a scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of cryptology.

Dr. Stallings holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science and a B.S. from Notre Dame in electrical engineering.