High Performance Browser Networking by I. Grigorik, O'Reilly (2013) – although aimed more at the performance of browser-based JavaScript applications, this book gives you quite a broad background of the standard UDP, TCP, and HTTP protocols, as well as wireless networking development and standards. Strongly recommended!
The Performance of Open Source Applications, edited by Travish Armstrong (available at http://aosabook.org, 2013) contains case studies on networking performance optimizations in the Chrome browser, Warp server implementation, and mobile networking techniques.
The series of three TCP/IP Illustrated books by W.R. Stevens, Addison–Wesley (2011), is a classic, very thorough, albeit a little dated description of the IP protocol family up to HTTP. It also includes a discussion of the IP protocol stack in 4.4 BSD Linux. For a similar...
