Foreword

Preface

Part I. Networking101

1. Primer on Latency and Bandwidth

Speed Is a Feature

The Many Components of Latency

Speed of Light and Propagation Latency

Last-Mile Latency

Bandwidth in Core Networks

Bandwidth at the Network Edge

Delivering Higher Bandwidth and Lower Latencies

2. Building Blocks of KP

Three-Way Handshake

Congestion Avoidance and Control

Flow Control

Slow-Start

Congestion Avoidance

Bandwidth-Delay Product

Head-of-Line Blocking

Optimizing for TCP

Tuning Server Configuration

Tuning Application Behavior

Performance Checklist

3. Building BI0cksofUDP

Null Protocol Services

UDP and Network Address Translators

Connection-State Timeouts

NAT Traversal

STUN, TURN, and ICE

Optimizing for UDP

4. Transport Layer Security (TLS

Encryption, Authentication, and Integrity

TLS Handshake

Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN

Server Name Indication (SNI

TLS Session Resumption

Session Identifiers

Session Tickets

Chain of Trust and Certificate Authorities

Certificate Revocation

Certificate Revocation List (CRL

Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP

TLS Record Protocol

Optimizing for TLS

Computational Costs

Early Termination

Session Caching and Stateless Resumption

TLS Record Size

TLS Compression

Certificate-Chain Length

OCSP Stapling

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS

Performance Checklist

Testing and Verification

Part II. Performance of Wireless Networks

5. Introduction to Wireless Networks

Ubiquitous Connectivity

Types of Wireless Networks

Performance Fundamentals of Wireless Networks

Bandwidth

Signal Power

Modulation

Part III. HTTP

Part IV. Browser APIs and Protocols

Index