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Data Communications and Computer Networks A Business User’s Approach

by: White, Curt

Data Communications and Computer Networks A Business User’s Approach

by: White, Curt

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9781418836108
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1418836109
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 02/09/2006
Publisher: Course Technology
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Summary

The latest edition of Curt White's top-selling text maintains a balanced approach between the technical and the practical aspects of data communications, providing a solid understanding not only of how things work, but how they can be applied to create business solutions. Updated to reflect new technologies, this text covers current concepts such as voice over wireless LAN, convergence, MPLS, and PPP, while maintaining the pedagogical elements that have been successful for students in the past.

Preface

Introduction to Computer Networks and Data Communications

(32)

Introduction

(1)

The Language of Computer Networks

(1)

The Big Picture of Networks

(2)

Communications Networks---Basic Connections

(8)

Terminal/microcomputer-to-mainframe computer connections

(1)

Microcomputer-to-local area network connections

(1)

Microcomputer-to-Internet connections

(1)

Local area network-to-local area network connections

(1)

Personal area network-to-workstation connections

(1)

Local area network-to-metropolitan area network connections

(1)

Local area network-to-wide area network connections

(1)

Wide area network-to-wide area network connections

(1)

Sensor-to-local area network connections

(1)

Satellite and microwave connections

(1)

Wireless telephone connections

(1)

Convergence

(1)

Network Architectures

(10)

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model

(4)

The TCP/IP protocol suite

(2)

Logical and physical connections

(3)

Network Connections In Action

(1)

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite In Action

(8)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Thinking Outside the Box

(1)

Hands-On Projects

(2)

Fundamentals of Data and Signals

(36)

Introduction

(1)

Data and Signals

(9)

Analog vs. digital

(3)

Fundamentals of signals

(3)

Loss of signal strength

(2)

Converting Data into Signals

(15)

Transmitting analog data with analog signals

(1)

Transmitting digital data with digital signals: digital encoding schemes

(5)

Transmitting digital data with analog signals

(4)

Transmitting analog data with digital signals

(5)

Data Codes

(3)

EBCDIC

(1)

ASCII

(1)

Unicode

(1)

Data and Signal Conversions In Action: Two Examples

(7)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Thinking Outside the Box

(1)

Hands-On Projects

(1)

Conducted and Wireless Media

(46)

Introduction

(1)

Conducted Media

(12)

Twisted pair wire

(6)

Coaxial cable

(2)

Fiber-optic cable

(4)

Wireless Media

(19)

Terrestrial microwave transmission

(1)

Satellite microwave transmission

(4)

Cellular telephones

(5)

Infrared transmissions

(1)

Wireless Application Protocol

(1)

Broadband wireless systems

(2)

Bluetooth

(1)

Wireless local area networks

(1)

Free space optics and ultra-wideband

(2)

Media Selection Criteria

101

(4)

Cost

101

(2)

Speed

103

(1)

Expandability and distance

103

(1)

Environment

104

(1)

Security

104

(1)

Conducted Media In Action: Two Examples

105

(2)

Wireless Media In Action: Three Examples

107

(8)

Summary

110

(1)

Key Terms

110

(1)

Review Questions

111

(1)

Exercises

112

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

113

(1)

Hands-On Projects

114

(1)

Making Connections

115

(24)

Introduction

116

(1)

Interfacing a Computer to Peripheral Devices

117

(9)

Characteristics of interface standards

117

(1)

Two important interface standards

118

(5)

Other interface standards

123

(3)

Data Link Connections

126

(4)

Asynchronous connections

126

(2)

Synchronous connections

128

(1)

Isochronous connections

129

(1)

Terminal-to-Mainframe Computer Connections

130

(2)

Making Computer Connections In Action

132

(7)

Summary

134

(1)

Key Terms

135

(1)

Review Questions

135

(1)

Exercises

135

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

136

(1)

Hands-On Projects

137

(2)

Making Connections Efficient: Multiplexing and Compression

139

(34)

Introduction

140

(1)

Frequency Division Multiplexing

140

(3)

Time Division Multiplexing

143

(9)

Synchronous time division multiplexing

143

(7)

Statistical time division multiplexing

150

(2)

Wavelength Division Multiplexing

152

(2)

Discrete Multitone

154

(1)

Code Division Multiplexing

155

(2)

Comparison of Multiplexing Techniques

157

(2)

Compression---Lossless versus Lossy

159

(6)

Lossless compression

160

(1)

Lossy compression

161

(4)

Business Multiplexing In Action

165

(8)

Summary

167

(1)

Key Terms

168

(1)

Review Questions

168

(1)

Exercises

169

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

170

(1)

Hands-On Projects

171

(2)

Errors, Error Detection, and Error Control

173

(28)

Introduction

174

(1)

Noise and Errors

175

(4)

White noise

175

(1)

Impulse noise

175

(2)

Crosstalk

177

(1)

Echo

177

(1)

Jitter

178

(1)

Attenuation

179

(1)

Error Prevention

179

(1)

Error Detection

180

(6)

Parity checks

181

(2)

Cyclic redundancy checksum

183

(3)

Error Control

186

(9)

Do nothing

186

(1)

Return a message

186

(7)

Correct the error

193

(2)

Error Detection In Action

195

(6)

Summary

196

(1)

Key Terms

197

(1)

Review Questions

197

(1)

Exercises

198

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

199

(1)

Hands-On Projects

199

(2)

Local Area Networks: The Basics

201

(36)

Introduction

202

(1)

Primary Function of Local Area Networks

203

(2)

Advantages and Disadvantages of Local Area Networks

205

(2)

Basic Local Area Network Topologies

207

(10)

Bus/tree topology

207

(3)

Star-wired bus topology

210

(1)

Star-wired ring topology

211

(2)

Wireless LANs

213

(3)

Comparison of bus, star-wired bus, star-wired ring, and wireless topologies

216

(1)

Medium Access Control Protocols

217

(6)

Contention-based protocols

218

(3)

Round-robin protocols

221

(2)

IEEE 802

223

(1)

IEEE 802.3 frame format

223

(1)

Local Area Network Systems

224

(4)

Wired Ethernet

224

(3)

IBM Token Ring

227

(1)

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

227

(1)

Wireless Ethernet

227

(1)

LANs In Action: A Small Office Solution

228

(2)

LANs In Action: A Home Office Solution

230

(7)

Summary

231

(1)

Key Terms

232

(1)

Review Questions

233

(1)

Exercises

233

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

234

(1)

Hands-On Projects

235

(2)

Local Area Networks: Internetworking

237

(26)

Introduction

238

(1)

Why Segment or Internetwork Local Area Networks?

239

(1)

Hubs

240

(1)

Bridges

241

(4)

Transparent bridge

242

(2)

Remote bridge

244

(1)

Switches

245

(9)

Virtual LANs

250

(1)

Isolating traffic patterns and providing multiple access

250

(3)

Full-duplex switches

253

(1)

Routers

254

(2)

LAN Internetworking In Action: A Small Office Revisited

256

(7)

Summary

259

(1)

Key Terms

260

(1)

Review Questions

260

(1)

Exercises

260

(2)

Thinking Outside the Box

262

(1)

Hands-On Projects

262

(1)

Local Area Networks: Software and Support Systems

263

(36)

Introduction

264

(1)

Network Operating Systems

265

(2)

Current Network Operating Systems

267

(14)

Novell NetWare

267

(5)

Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003

272

(4)

Unix

276

(1)

Linux

277

(1)

Novell Linux

278

(1)

Mac OS X Server

278

(1)

Summary of network operating systems

279

(2)

Network Servers

281

(2)

Client/server networks vs. peer-to-peer networks

282

(1)

Network Support Software

283

(4)

Utilities

284

(2)

Internet software

286

(1)

Software Licensing Agreements

287

(2)

LAN Support Devices

289

(1)

LAN Software In Action: A Small Company Makes a Choice

290

(3)

Primary uses of current system

291

(1)

Network maintenance and support

291

(1)

Cost of the NOS

291

(1)

Any unique hardware choices affecting NOS decision

292

(1)

Single location or multiple locations

292

(1)

Political pressures affecting decision

292

(1)

Final decision

293

(1)

Wireless Networking in Action: Creating a Wireless LAN for Home

293

(6)

Summary

295

(1)

Key Terms

296

(1)

Review Questions

296

(1)

Exercises

297

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

298

(1)

Hands-On Projects

298

(1)

Introduction to Metropolitan Area Networks and Wide Area Networks

299

(32)

Introduction

300

(1)

Metropolitan Area Network Basics

300

(5)

SONET vs. Ethernet

302

(3)

Wide Area Network Basics

305

(7)

Types of sub-networks

307

(3)

Connection-oriented vs. connectionless network applications

310

(2)

Routing

312

(9)

Dijkstra's least-cost algorithm

314

(1)

Flooding

315

(2)

Centralized vs. distributed routing

317

(2)

Adaptive vs. fixed routing

319

(1)

Routing examples

320

(1)

Network Congestion

321

(3)

The problems associated with network congestion

321

(1)

Possible solutions to congestion

322

(2)

WANs In Action: Making Internet Connections

324

(7)

A home-to-Internet connection

324

(1)

A work-to-Internet connection

325

(1)

Summary

326

(1)

Key Terms

327

(1)

Review Questions

327

(1)

Exercises

328

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

329

(1)

Hands-On Projects

330

(1)

The Internet

331

(44)

Introduction

332

(1)

Internet Protocols

333

(11)

The Internet Protocol (IP)

334

(4)

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

338

(2)

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

340

(1)

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

341

(1)

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

342

(1)

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

342

(1)

Network Address Translation (NAT)

343

(1)

Tunneling protocols and virtual private networks (VPNs)

344

(1)

The World Wide Web

344

(10)

Locating a document on the Internet

346

(4)

Creating Web pages

350

(4)

Internet Services

354

(7)

Electronic mail (e-mail)

354

(1)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

355

(2)

Remote login (Telnet)

357

(1)

Voice over IP

357

(2)

Listservs

359

(1)

Streaming audio and video

360

(1)

Instant messaging

360

(1)

The Internet and Business

361

(2)

Cookies and state information

361

(1)

Intranets and extranets

362

(1)

The Future of the Internet

363

(3)

IPv6

364

(1)

Internet2

365

(1)

Internet In Action: A Company Creates a VPN

366

(9)

Summary

368

(2)

Key Terms

370

(1)

Review Questions

370

(1)

Exercises

371

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

372

(1)

Hands-On Projects

373

(2)

Voice and Data Delivery Networks

375

(40)

Introduction

376

(1)

The Basic Telephone System

376

(9)

Telephone lines, trunks, and numbers

376

(2)

The telephone network before and after 1984

378

(2)

Telephone networks after 1996

380

(1)

Limitations of telephone signals

381

(1)

The 56k Dial-Up Modem

382

(3)

Digital Subscriber Line

385

(3)

DSL basics

385

(2)

DSL formats

387

(1)

Cable Modems

388

(2)

T-1 Leased Line Service

390

(1)

Frame Relay

390

(8)

Frame relay setup

393

(1)

Committed information rate (CIR)

394

(1)

Frame relay vs. the Internet

395

(1)

Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR)

396

(1)

Frame relay switched virtual circuits

396

(2)

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

398

(3)

ATM classes of service

399

(2)

Advantages and disadvantages of ATM

401

(1)

Comparison of DSL, Cable Modems, Frame Relay, and ATM

401

(1)

Convergence

402

(3)

Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI)

403

(2)

Telecommunications Systems In Action: A Company Makes a Service Choice

405

(10)

Prices

405

(1)

Making the choice

405

(3)

Summary

408

(2)

Key Terms

410

(1)

Review Questions

410

(1)

Exercises

411

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

412

(1)

Hands-On Projects

413

(2)

Network Security

415

(38)

Standard System Attacks

416

(3)

Physical Protection

419

(2)

Controlling Access

421

(6)

Passwords and ID systems

422

(2)

Access rights

424

(2)

Auditing

426

(1)

Securing Data

427

(10)

Basic encryption and decryption techniques

427

(10)

Securing Communications

437

(7)

Spread Spectrum Technology

437

(3)

Guarding against viruses

440

(1)

Firewalls

441

(3)

Wireless security

444

(1)

Security Policy Design Issues

444

(9)

Summary

447

(2)

Key Terms

449

(1)

Review Questions

449

(1)

Exercises

450

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

451

(1)

Hands-On Projects

451

(2)

Network Design and Management

453

(32)

Systems Development Life Cycle

455

(1)

Network Modeling

456

(4)

Wide area connectivity map

457

(1)

Metropolitan area connectivity map

458

(1)

Local area connectivity map

459

(1)

Feasibility Studies

460

(4)

Capacity Planning

464

(3)

Creating a Baseline

467

(3)

Network Administrator Skills

470

(1)

Generating Usable Statistics

471

(2)

Network Diagnostic Tools

473

(12)

Tools that test and debug network hardware

473

(1)

Network sniffers

474

(1)

Managing operations

474

(1)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

475

(4)

Summary

479

(2)

Key Terms

481

(1)

Review Questions

481

(1)

Exercises

481

(1)

Thinking Outside the Box

482

(1)

Hands-On Projects

483

(2)

Glossary

485

(20)

Index

505

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