Computer communications
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Computer communications
International Thomson Computer Press, 1995
3rd ed
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Includes index
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Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to digital communications for students of computing and electronic engineering. It includes up-to-date coverage of subjects such as local and wide area networks and integrated services digital network. New material on standards, protocols and network management has been added. With its worked examples, student questions, learning objectives, chapter summaries and directed further reading, this is intended as a useful course text.
Table of Contents
- Historical development
- Digital communication
- Telecommunication services
- An outline of the book
- Carrier systems
- The public switched telephone network
- Data on the telephone network
- Modulation methods
- Performance of digital modulation schemes
- Modem categories
- Other modem facilities
- Multiplexing
- Data transmission
- Transmission media
- Transmission waveform
- Transmission impairment. Inter-symbol interference
- Coding and framing
- Pulse code modulation
- Source coding
- Synchronous and asynchronous transmission
- Error checking and control
- Interfacing
- Computer transmission
- Data switching
- Circuit switching
- Message switching
- Packet switching
- Event timing and speed changing
- Network control
- Routing
- Flow control
- Optimization
- Communication networks
- Network topology
- Point-to-point digital communication
- Switched exchanges
- Pass exchanges
- Signalling
- New digital hierarchies
- Value added networks
- Traffic dimensioning
- Local area networks
- LAN technologies
- Simple handshake systems
- Linear network systems
- Ring systems
- Fibre optic networks
- Network servers
- Broadband systems
- Local area network performance
- Protocols
- Protocol layering
- Wide area network protocols
- Local area network protocols
- IEEE 802 LAN standard protocols
- The ISO transport and Internet protocols
- DOD transport and Internet protocols
- DOD transmission control protocol (DOD TCP)
- DOD Internet protocol (DOD IP)
- Upper layer protocols
- The session layer
- The presentation layer
- Common application layer protocols
- Specific application layer protocols
- Computer integrated manufacture
- Technical and office protocol. Network management
- ISDN and broadband ISDN
- ISDN evolution
- ISDN concept
- International standards
- ISDN services
- Transmission structure
- User-network interface
- Protocol archtecture
- Physical layer operation
- Data link layer operation
- Network layer operation
- Broadband ISDN
- Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)>
- SONET/SDH
- Recommended reading
- Communications literature
- Journals
- Conferences
- Standards committees.
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