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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

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In designing a network device, you make dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will perform―sometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. Network Algorithmics provides a complete, coherent methodology for maximizing speed while meeting your other design goals. Author George Varghese begins by laying out the implementation bottlenecks that are most often encountered at four disparate levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware, and architecture. He then derives 15 solid principles―ranging from the commonly recognized to the groundbreaking―that are key to breaking these bottlenecks. The rest of the book is devoted to a systematic application of these principles to bottlenecks found specifically in endnodes, interconnect devices, and specialty functions such as security and measurement that can be located anywhere along the network. This immensely practical, clearly presented information will benefit anyone involved with network implementation, as well as students who have made this work their goal. FOR INSTRUCTORS: To obtain access to the solutions manual for this title simply register on our textbook website (textbooks.elsevier.com)and request access to the Computer Science subject area. Once approved (usually within one business day) you will be able to access all of the instructor-only materials through the "Instructor Manual" link on this book's academic web page at textbooks.elsevier.com.
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Maybe Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes[1]. These techniques might not be useful to everybody, all the time, but they can be very handy in places.

Edit:

A couple of other suggestions.

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images[2]

Mining of Massive Datasets[3]

Algorithm Design Manual[4]

Network Algorithmics[5]

Neural Network Design[6]

I think all of these fall into the category of "Won't be applicable to everyone, but can be good for those who need this kind of stuff."

[1]: https://github.com/clever-algorithms/CleverAlgorithms

[2]: https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ammoffat/mg/

[3]: http://www.mmds.org/

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

[5]: https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...

[6]: https://hagan.okstate.edu/NNDesign.pdf

eatonphil
That looks good! Thanks!
You might find the following useful.

* Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices - https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...

* See MIPS Run - https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Kaufmann-Computer-Architecture...

* UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers - https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Systems-Modern-Architectures-Mul...

* Advanced UNIX Programming - https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochki...

Lately I've been reading Network Algorithmics. Awesome book.

https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...

tptacek
This book blew my head off when it first came out (I used to work in the space). Highly recommend.
bogomipz
Wow this is a unique book! Just skimming I see Bloom filters, tries, routing protocols, sequential logic and DDOS all in same book. This looks great. Thanks for sharing.
sgrossman
Indeed! This book is likely to be 100x more interesting than your local college's undergrad networks course.

The dozen or so principles Varghese lays out for writing fast networking code is reason enough to pick it up. The writing is very approachable, too. Reminds me more of the early network operator books than a CS text.

Varghese, a co-author on the ACM paper, wrote the book on high-performance network component design --- "Network Algorithmics":

http://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinary...

Highly, highly recommended.

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