Network-requirement analysis

In this chapter, the author will first introduce various network services and requirements in Section 5.1. Service characteristics and levels will be described in Section 5.2 along with discussion on requirements of service performance. Section 5.3 will provide detailed steps of requirement analysis process where user, application, host, and network requirements will be sequentially presented in Sections 5.4-5.7. A typical requirement analysis model will be developed in Section 5.8. This chapter further provides analyses of reliability, maintainability, and availability (RMA) of the network and its components in Section 5.9.