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Title: Unfulfilled Promise
Review: Control engineering has many areas of application in networking. Synchronization (various levels), flow control (TCP), etc. I anticipated this book would offer some original insights into control systems methods as they apply to networking. Greatly disappointed. Problems with this book: Lack of quantitative methods (control theory is highly quantitative, no real application of control methods except as block diagrams), no examples, broad generalities. No demonstration that he understands the fundamental factors in the success of the Internet (yet he boldly states he thinks it should be fundamentally changed). The subject was promising, but no useful techniques or methods. Doesn't even demonstrate an understanding of the control systems aspects (networking is a multi-input, multi-output control system problem, but that is not addressed). Regretfully, I strongly recommend not buying this book.
