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Summary: never out-of-date
Review: Written by two MIT masters, this is the best tech. book I have read, ever. I first read it slowly yet seriously in my first graduate year; now four years later, after obtaining my PhD in networking, I still discover new ideas or technical points (or some I just overlooked) out of the book, from time to time. Look back, I am amazed how precisely they commented on ATM when it was that hot. Also, as a 1992 book, it is amazing that the book was so up-to-date as the Parekh/Gallager results on WFQ were seriously discussed in Ch. 6, even before the results were formally published and eventually won IEEE paper awards. Today WFQ is one of the most well-known, if not the most well-known, algorithms in networking... For strict yet accessible treatment on flow control and routing, you can find no book elsewhere that can both illustrate the existing ideas and trigger/stimulate your own ideas... Well, I dare to say I did not find any single sentence in the book that I felt redundant/vague. Probably the only network book better than this one would be its 3rd edition, which unfortunately we do not know if/when will come out. Warning: if you don't like/appreciate rigorous math thinking, probably you can safely skip this book.
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