Computer networking : a top-down approach featuring the Internet
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Computer networking : a top-down approach featuring the Internet
Addison-Wesley, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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By starting at the application-layer and working down to the protocol stack, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet provides a motivational treatment of important concepts for networking students. Based on the rationale that once a student understands the applications of networks they can understand the network services needed to support these applications, this book takes a "top-down" approach where students are first exposed to a concrete application and then drawn into some of the deeper issues of networking.
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet focuses on the Internet as opposed to addressing it as just one of many computer network technologies. Students are enormously curious about what is "under the hood" of the Internet, creating an extremely motivational vehicle for teaching fundamental computer networking concepts.
This text features a comprehensive companion website which includes the entire text online. It allows for direct access to some of the best Internet sites relating to computer networks and Internet protocols. The website has many interactive features, including direct access to the Traceroute program, direct access to search engines for Internet Drafts, Java applets that animate difficult concepts, and direct streaming audio. Finally, the website makes it possible to update the material to keep up-to-date with this rapidly changing field.
Table of Contents
(Each chapter concludes with a Summary, Homework Problems and Questions, Problems, Discussion Questions and Programming Assignments.)
1. Computer Networks and the Internet.
What is the Internet?
What is a Protocol?
The Network Edge.
The Network Core.
Interactive Programs for Tracing Routes in the Internet.
Java Applet: Message Switching and Packet Switching.
Access Networks and Physical Media.
Delay and Loss in Packet-Switched Networks.
Protocol Layers and Their Service Models.
Internet Backbones, NAPs and ISPs.
A Brief History of Computer Networking and the Internet.
ATM.
2. Application Layer.
Principles of Application-Layer Protocols.
The World Wide Web: HTTP.
File Transfer: FTP.
Electronic Mail in the Internet.
The Internet's Directory Service: DNS.
Interactive Programs for Exploring DNS.
Socket Programming with TCP.
Socket Programming with UDP.
Building a Simple Web Server.
3. Transport Layer.
Transport-Layer Services and Principles.
Multiplexing and Demultiplexing Applications.
Connectionless Transport: UDP.
Principles of Reliable Data Transfer.
Java Applet: Flow Control in Action.
Connection-Oriented Transport: TCP.
Principles of Congestion Control.
TCP Congestion Control.
4. Network Layer and Routing.
Introduction and Network Service Model.
Routing Principles.
Hierarchical Routing.
Internet Protocol.
Java Applet: IP Fragmentation.
Routing in the Internet.
What's Inside a Router?
IPv6.
Multicast Routing.
5. Link Layer and Local Area Networks.
The Data Link Layer: Introduction, Services.
Error Detection and Correction.
Multiple Access Protocols and LANs.
LAN Addresses and ARP.
Ethernet.
CSMA/CD Applet.
Hubs, Bridges and Switches.
Wireless LANs: IEEE 802.11.
The Point-to-Point Protocol.
ATM.
X.25 and Frame Relay.
6. Multimedia Networking.
Multimedia Networking Applications.
Streaming Stored Audio and Video.
Making the Best of the Best-Effort Service: An Internet Phone Example.
RTP.
Beyond Best-Effort.
Scheduling and Policing Mechanisms.
Integrated Services.
RSVP.
Differentiated Services.
7. Security in Computer Networks.
What is Network Security?
Principles of Cryptography.
Authentication: Who are You?
Integrity.
Key Distribution and Certification.
Secure E-Mail.
Internet Commerce.
Network-Layer Security: IPsec.
1999 Panel Discussion on Internet Security.
8. Network Management.
Introduction to Network Management.
The Internet Network-Management Framework.
ASN.1.
Firewalls.
Appendix.
Lab: Building a multi-thread Web sever in Java.
Lab: Building a mail user agent in Java.
Lab: Implementing a distributed, asynchronous distance vector routing. 0201477114T04062001
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