Network Analysis, Architecture and Design, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

2.2 Preparation

There is little information on the requirements analysis process as it applies to networking. However, there are some excellent preparatory materials that are of a more general systems engineering nature that will provide an overview of the requirements analysis process. The following books are recommended:

• The Art of Systems Architecting, 2nd edition, by Mark W. Maier and Eberhardt Rechtin, CRC Press, June 2000

• Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide, by Ian Sommerville and Pete Sawyer, John Wiley & Sons, April 1997

• Enterprise System Architectures: Building Client Server and Web Based Systems, by Mark Goodyear, CRC Press, September 1999

• Systems Engineering: Coping with Complexity, by Stuart Arnold, Peter Brook, Ken Jackson, and Richard Stevens, Prentice Hall, June 1998