Computer networks and internets
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Computer networks and internets
Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009
5th ed
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Includes index
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Description
Computer Networks and Internets is appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking, the Internet, or Internet applications; readers need no background in networking, operating systems, or advanced mathematics.
Leading networking authority Douglas Comer presents a wide-ranging, self-contained tour of the concepts, principles, and technologies that enable today's Internet to support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and multimedia. This Fifth Edition has been thoroughly reorganized, revised, and updated: it includes extensive new coverage of topics ranging from wireless protocols to network performance, while reducing or eliminating coverage of older protocols and technologies. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and facilities offered by today's Internet. Next, he systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and protocols that make them possible: low-level data communications; packet switching, LAN, and WAN technologies; and Internet protocols such as TCP, IP, UDP, and IPv6. With these concepts and technologies established, he introduces several of the most important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and managers, including quality of service, Internet telephony, multimedia, network security, and network management. Comer has carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating systems, and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I. Introduction and Internet Applications
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Internet Trends
3. Internet Applications and Network Programming
4. Traditional Internet Applications
PART II. Data Communication Basics
5. Overview Of Data Communications
6. Information Sources and Signals
7. Transmission Media
8. Reliability and Channel Coding
9/ Transmission Modes
10. Modulation and Modems
11. Multiplexing and Demultiplexing (Channelization)
12. Access and Interconnection Technologies
PART III. Packet Switching and Network Technologies
13. Local Area Networks: Packets, Frames, and Topologies
14. The IEEE MAC Sub-Layer
15. Wired LAN Technology (Ethernet and 802.3)
16. Wireless Networking Technologies
17. LAN Extensions: Fiber Modems, Repeaters, Bridges, and Switches
18. WAN Technologies and Dynamic Routing
19. Networking Technologies Past and Present
PART IV. Internetworking
20. Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols
21. IP: Internet Addressing
22. Datagram Forwarding
23. Support Protocols and Technologies
24. The Future IP (IPv6)
25. UDP: Datagram Transport Service
26. TCP: Reliable Transport Service
27. Internet Routing and Routing Protocols
PART V. Other Networking Concepts & Technologies
28. Network Performance (QoS and DiffServ)
29. Multimedia and IP Telephony (VoIP)
30. Network Security
31. Network Management (SNMP)
32. Trends In Networking Technologies and Uses
Appendix 1. A Simplified Application Programming Interface
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
