Network Processor and Network System Design

Author: Komer
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is well-structured, conceptually accurate, comprehensive, and richly illustrated. It not only helps readers grasp the fundamental concepts of network system design in a step-by-step manner but also equips them with the skills to design network devices and systems using network processors. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, communication, and electronic information engineering. It can also be used as a reference for network hardware and software engineers, system integration engineers, and application/maintenance personnel. The book provides an in-depth and systematic introduction to a emerging hardware technology—network processors—used for building network systems.
The first three chapters introduce network systems and protocols. The main content is divided into three parts: Part one discusses protocol processing and general packet processing functions in network systems; the second part elaborates on network processor technology, including its characteristics, applications, architecture, programming languages, and design trade-offs; the third part provides a detailed introduction to the hardware architecture, software development environment, programming modes, and programming methods of network processors, using Intel's IXP1200 as an example, along with some validated example code.