Programmable Networks for IP Service Deployment: Management and Rapid Service Deployment

Today, programmable networks are being viewed as the solution for the fast, flexible and dynamic deployment of new telecommunications network services. At the vanguard of programmable network research is the Future Active IP Networks (FAIN) project. The authors of this book discuss their research in FAIN so you can get on the inside track to tomorrow's technology. Moreover, the book provides you with detailed guidelines for designing managed IP programmable networks.

Alex Galis is a visiting professor at University College, London, U.K. He is the author and editor of more than 50 articles and reports on telecommunications technology. Spyros Denazis is a senior researcher with Hitachi Europe, where he is a project leader of Future Active IP Networks (FAIN) research. The author and coauthor of more than 20 scientific papers, he holds a Ph.D. in computer science form the University of Bradford, U.K. Célestin Brou is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research, Berlin, Germany. A member of the FAIN project, he has been investigating a routing on demand protocol. He earned his M.S. at The French National Research Institute INRIA-Rocquencourt. Cornel Klein is employed by Siemens AG, where he works on strategic product planning for information and communications networks. He received his Ph.D. from the Munich Institute of Technology, Germany.