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Computer Networks

ISBN: 9780130661029 | 0130661023
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 8/9/2002

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Andrew S. Tanenbaum is Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Scientific Director of ASCI, a Dutch graduate school established by leading universities throughout the Netherlands.
Appropriate for courses titled Computer Networking or Introduction to Networking at both the undergraduate and graduate level in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, CIS, MIS, and Business Departments. In this highly anticipated revision, Tanenbaum takes a structured approach to explaining... MORE
Preface
Introduction
1(84)
Uses Of Computer Networks
3(11)
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Business Applications
3(3)
Home Applications
6(3)
Mobile Users
9(3)
Social Issues
12(2)
Network Hardware
14(12)
Local Area Networks
16(2)
Metropolitan Area Networks
18(1)
Wide Area Networks
19(2)
Wireless Networks
21(2)
Home Networks
23(2)
Internetworks
25(1)
Network Software
26(11)
Protocol Hierarchies
26(4)
Design Issues for the Layers
30(2)
Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Services
32(2)
Service Primitives
34(2)
The Relationship of Services to Protocols
36(1)
Reference Models
37(12)
The OSI Reference Model
37(4)
The TCP/IP Reference Model
41(3)
A Comparison of the OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models
44(2)
A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols
46(2)
A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model
48(1)
Example Networks
49(22)
The Internet
50(9)
Connection-Oriented Networks: X.25, Frame Relay, and ATM
59(6)
Ethernet
65(3)
Wireless LANs: 802.11
68(3)
Network Standardization
71(6)
Who's Who in the Telecommunications World
71(3)
Who's Who in the International Standards World
74(1)
Who's Who in the Internet Standards World
75(2)
Metric Units
77(1)
Outline of the Rest of the Book
78(1)
Summary
79(6)
The Physical Layer
85(98)
The Theoretical Basis for Data Communication
85(5)
Fourier Analysis
86(1)
Bandwidth-Limited Signals
86(3)
The Maximum Data Rate of a Channel
89(1)
Guided Transmission Media
90(10)
Magnetic Media
90(1)
Twisted Pair
91(1)
Coaxial Cable
92(1)
Fiber Optics
93(7)
Wireless Transmission
100(9)
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
100(3)
Radio Transmission
103(1)
Microwave Transmission
104(2)
Infrared and Millimeter Waves
106(1)
Lightwave Transmission
107(2)
Communication Satellites
109(9)
Geostationary Satellites
109(4)
Medium-Earth Orbit Satellites
113(1)
Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
114(3)
Satellites versus Fiber
117(1)
The Public Switched Telephone Network
118(34)
Structure of the Telephone System
119(3)
The Politics of Telephones
122(2)
The Local Loop: Modems, ADSL, and Wireless
124(13)
Trunks and Multiplexing
137(9)
Switching
146(6)
The Mobile Telephone System
152(17)
First-Generation Mobile Phones: Analog Voice
153(4)
Second-Generation Mobile Phones: Digital Voice
157(9)
Third-Generation Mobile Phones: Digital Voice and Data
166(3)
Cable Television
169(8)
Community Antenna Television
169(1)
Internet over Cable
170(2)
Spectrum Allocation
172(1)
Cable Modems
173(2)
ADSL versus Cable
175(2)
Summary
177(6)
The Data Link Layer
183(64)
Data Link Layer Design Issues
184(8)
Services Provided to the Network Layer
184(3)
Framing
187(4)
Error Control
191(1)
Flow Control
192(1)
Error Detection and Correction
192(8)
Error-Correcting Codes
193(3)
Error-Detecting Codes
196(4)
Elementary Data Link Protocols
200(11)
An Unrestricted Simplex Protocol
204(2)
A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol
206(2)
A Simplex Protocol for a Noisy Channel
208(3)
Sliding Window Protocols
211(18)
A One-Bit Sliding Window Protocol
214(2)
A Protocol Using Go Back N
216(7)
A Protocol Using Selective Repeat
223(6)
Protocol Verification
229(5)
Finite State Machine Models
229(3)
Petri Net Models
232(2)
Example Data Link Protocols
234(8)
HDLC---High-Level Data Link Control
234(3)
The Data Link Layer in the Internet
237(5)
Summary
242(5)
The Medium Access Control Sublayer
247(96)
The Channel Allocation Problem
248(3)
Static Channel Allocation in LANs and Mans
248(1)
Dynamic Channel Allocation in LANs and Mans
249(2)
Multiple Access Protocols
251(20)
Aloha
251(4)
Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols
255(4)
Collision-Free Protocols
259(2)
Limited-Contention Protocols
261(4)
Wavelength Division Multiple Access Protocols
265(2)
Wireless LAN Protocols
267(4)
Ethernet
271(21)
Ethernet Cabling
271(3)
Manchester Encoding
274(1)
The Ethernet MAC Sublayer Protocol
275(3)
The Binary Exponential Backoff Algorithm
278(1)
Ethernet Performance
279(2)
Switched Ethernet
281(2)
Fast Ethernet
283(3)
Gigabit Ethernet
286(4)
IEEE 802.2: Logical Link Control
290(1)
Retrospective on Ethernet
291(1)
Wireless Lans
292(10)
The 802.11 Protocol Stack
292(1)
The 802.11 Physical Layer
293(2)
The 802.11 MAC Sublayer Protocol
295(4)
The 802.11 Frame Structure
299
Services
1(301)
Broadband Wireless
302(8)
Comparison of 802.11 with 8016
303(2)
The 802.16 Protocol Stack
305(1)
The 802.16 Physical Layer
306(1)
The 802.16 MAC Sublayer Protocol
307(2)
The 802.16 Frame Structure
309(1)
Bluetooth
310(8)
Bluetooth Architecture
311(1)
Bluetooth Applications
312(1)
The Bluetooth Protocol Stack
313(2)
The Bluetooth Radio Layer
315(1)
The Bluetooth Baseband Layer
315(1)
The Bluetooth L2CAP Layer
316(1)
The Bluetooth Frame Structure
316(2)
Data Link Layer Switching
318(19)
Bridges from 802.x to 802.y
320(2)
Local Internetworking
322(2)
Spanning Tree Bridges
324(1)
Remote Bridges
325(1)
Repeaters, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, and Gateways
326(3)
Virtual LANs
329(8)
Summary
337(6)
The Network Layer
343(138)
Network Layer Design Issues
343(7)
Store-and-Forward Packet Switching
344(1)
Services Provided to the Transport Layer
344(1)
Implementation of Connectionless Service
345(2)
Implementation of Connection-Oriented Service
347(1)
Comparison of Virtual-Circuit and Datagram Subnets
348(2)
Routing Algorithms
350(34)
The Optimality Principle
352(1)
Shortest Path Routing
353(2)
Flooding
355(2)
Distance Vector Routing
357(3)
Link State Routing
360(6)
Hierarchical Routing
366(2)
Broadcast Routing
368(2)
Multicast Routing
370(2)
Routing for Mobile Hosts
372(1)
Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
373(7)
Node Lookup in Peer-to-Peer Networks
380(4)
Congestion Control Algorithms
384(13)
General Principles of Congestion Control
386(2)
Congestion Prevention Policies
388(1)
Congestion Control in Virtual-Circuit Subnets
389(2)
Congestion Control in Datagram Subnets
391(3)
Load Shedding
394(1)
Jitter Control
395(2)
Quality of Service
397(21)
Requirements
397(1)
Techniques for Achieving Good Quality of Service
398(11)
Integrated Services
409(3)
Differentiated Services
412(3)
Label Switching and MPLS
415(3)
Internetworking
418(13)
How Networks Differ
419(1)
How Networks Can Be Connected
420(2)
Concatenated Virtual Circuits
422(1)
Connectionless Internetworking
423(2)
Tunneling
425(1)
Internetwork Routing
426(1)
Fragmentation
427(4)
The Network Layer in the Internet
431(42)
The IP Protocol
433(3)
IP Addresses
436(13)
Internet Control Protocols
449(5)
OSPF---The Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
454(5)
BGP---The Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol
459(2)
Internet Multicasting
461(1)
Mobile IP
462(2)
IPv6
464(9)
Summary
473(8)
The Transport Layer
481(98)
The Transport Service
481(11)
Services Provided to the Upper Layers
481(2)
Transport Service Primitives
483(4)
Berkeley Sockets
487(1)
An Example of Socket Programming: An Internet File Server
488(4)
Elements of Transport Protocols
492(21)
Addressing
493(3)
Connection Establishment
496(6)
Connection Release
502(4)
Flow Control and Buffering
506(4)
Multiplexing
510(1)
Crash Recovery
511(2)
A Simple Transport Protocol
513(11)
The Example Service Primitives
513(2)
The Example Transport Entity
515(7)
The Example as a Finite State Machine
522(2)
The Internet Transport Protocols: UDP
524(8)
Introduction to UDP
525(1)
Remote Procedure Call
526(3)
The Real-Time Transport Protocol
529(3)
The Internet Transport Protocols: TCP
532(25)
Introduction to TCP
532(1)
The TCP Service Model
533(2)
The TCP Protocol
535(1)
The TCP Segment Header
536(3)
TCP Connection Establishment
539(2)
TCP Connection Release
541(1)
Modeling TCP Connection Management
541(2)
TCP Transmission Policy
543(4)
TCP Congestion Control
547(3)
TCP Timer Management
550(3)
Wireless TCP and UDP
553(2)
Transactional TCP
555(2)
Performance Issues
557(16)
Performance Problems in Computer Networks
557(3)
Network Performance Measurement
560(2)
System Design for Better Performance
562(4)
Fast TPDU Processing
566(3)
Protocols for Gigabit Networks
569(4)
Summary
573(6)
The Application Layer
579(142)
DNS-The Domain Name System
579(9)
The DNS Name Space
580(2)
Resource Records
582(4)
Name Servers
586(2)
Electronic Mail
588(23)
Architecture and Services
590(1)
The User Agent
591(3)
Message Formats
594(8)
Message Transfer
602(3)
Final Delivery
605(6)
The World Wide Web
611(63)
Architectural Overview
612(17)
Static Web Documents
629(14)
Dynamic Web Documents
643(8)
HTTP---The HyperText Transfer Protocol
651(5)
Performance Enhancements
656(6)
The Wireless Web
662(12)
Multimedia
674(40)
Introduction to Digital Audio
674(2)
Audio Compression
676(3)
Streaming Audio
679(4)
Internet Radio
683(2)
Voice over IP
685(7)
Introduction to Video
692(4)
Video Compression
696(8)
Video on Demand
704(7)
The MBone---The Multicast Backbone
711(3)
Summary
714(7)
Network Security
721(114)
Cryptography
724(13)
Introduction to Cryptography
725(2)
Substitution Ciphers
727(2)
Transposition Ciphers
729(1)
One-Time Pads
730(5)
Two Fundamental Cryptographic Principles
735(2)
Symmetric-Key Algorithms
737(15)
DES---The Data Encryption Standard
738(3)
AES---The Advanced Encryption Standard
741(4)
Cipher Modes
745(5)
Other Ciphers
750(1)
Cryptanalysis
750(2)
Public-Key Algorithms
752(3)
RSA
753(2)
Other Public-Key Algorithms
755(1)
Digital Signatures
755(10)
Symmetric-Key Signatures
756(1)
Public-Key Signatures
757(2)
Message Digests
759(4)
The Birthday Attack
763(2)
Management of Public Keys
765(7)
Certificates
765(2)
X.509
767(1)
Public Key Infrastructures
768(4)
Communication Security
772(13)
IPsec
772(4)
Firewalls
776(3)
Virtual Private Networks
779(1)
Wireless Security
780(5)
Authentication Protocols
785(14)
Authentication Based on a Shared Secret Key
786(5)
Establishing a Shared Key: The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
791(2)
Authentication Using a Key Distribution Center
793(3)
Authentication Using Kerberos
796(2)
Authentication Using Public-Key Cryptography
798(1)
E-Mail Security
799(6)
PGP---Pretty Good Privacy
799(4)
PEM---Privacy Enhanced Mail
803(1)
S/Mime
804(1)
Web Security
805(14)
Threats
805(1)
Secure Naming
806(7)
SSL---The Secure Sockets Layer
813(3)
Mobile Code Security
816(3)
Social Issues
819(9)
Privacy
819(103)
Freedom of Speech
922
Copyright
826(2)
Summary
828(7)
Reading List and Bibliography
835(34)
Suggestions for Further Reading
835(13)
Introduction and General Works
836(2)
The Physical Layer
838(2)
The Data Link Layer
840(1)
The Medium Access Control Sublayer
840(2)
The Network Layer
842(2)
The Transport Layer
844(1)
The Application Layer
844(2)
Network Security
846(2)
Alphabetical Bibliography
848(21)
Index869

ANDREW S. TANENBAUM is Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Scientific Director of ASCI, a Dutch graduate school established by leading universities throughout the Netherlands. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. Other books Tanenbaum has authored or co-authored include Structured Computer Organization, Fourth Edition; Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Second Edition; Modern Operating Systems, Second Edition; and Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (all from Prentice Hall).

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