On Chaotic Dynamics of Transport Protocols in Wide-Area Internet Connections -- Phase Transition in Internet Traffic And Application of Critical Control -- Observing The Macroscopic Dynamics of Large-Scale IP Networks -- Observations And Possible Causes of Critical Behavior in Internet Traffic -- Dynamical Properties of Externally Driven TCP Traffic -- Modeling TCP with RED Gateway: a Dynamical Approach -- A Local-World Model for the Complex Topology of the Internet -- Chaotic Phenomena of TCP and its Implications to Network Performance.

Computer and communication networks are among society's most important infrastructures. The internet, in particular, is a giant global network of networks without central control or administration. It is a paradigm of a complex system, where complexity may arise from different sources: topological structure, network evolution, connection and node diversity, or dynamical evolution. The present volume is the first book entirely devoted to the new and emerging field of nonlinear dynamics of TCP/IP networks. It addresses both scientists and engineers working in the general field of communication networks.