Dr. SALAH AIDAROUS worked in the Network Management Division of NEC America on the planning and development of integrated network management systems. Prior to his association with NEC, he was with Nortel Technology, working on a broad range of assignments in telecommunications networks and services planning and development. THOMAS PLEVYAK is Editor in Chief of IEEE Communications magazine and a past president and director of publications of the IEEE Communications Society. An IEEE Fellow, he is currently employed at Verizon Communications in Arlington, Virginia, in the field of operations and network management standards.

• Introduction. Acknowledgments. List of Acronyms. Principles of Network Management (Salah Aidarous and Thomas Plevyak). A Critical Survey of Network Management Protocol Standards(Yechiam Yemini). Telecommunications Management Network: Principles, Models, and Applications (Veli Sahin). Domestic and International Open Systems InterconnectionManagement Standards (Philip A. Johnson). Applying Object-Oriented Analysis and Design to the Integrations of Network Management Systems (Raymond H. Pyle). Modeling and Simulation in Network Management (Victor S. Frost). Knowledge-based Network Management (Kurudi H. Muralidhar). Configuration Management (Gordon Rainey). Fault Management (Charles J. Byrne). Network Performance Management (Subhabrata Bapi Sen). Distributed Restoration of the Transport Network (Wayne Grover). Index.