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Data and Computer Communications

ISBN: 9780131006812 | 0131006819
Edition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
For a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments. With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field. Emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design, it explores in detail all the critical technical areas in data communicati... MORE
Prefacexiii
Reader's Guide
1(6)
Outline of the Book
2(1)
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Internet and Web Resources
2(2)
Standards
4(3)
PART ONE OVERVIEW
7(44)
Data Communications and Networking Overview
9(10)
A Communications Model
10(3)
Data Communications
13(1)
Data Communication Networking
14(3)
An Example Configuration
17(2)
Protocol Architecture
19(32)
The Need for a Protocol Architecture
20(1)
A Simple Protocol Architecture
21(6)
OSI
27(11)
The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture
38(6)
Recommended Reading and Web Site
44(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
45(6)
Appendix 2A The Trivial File Transfer Protocol
47(4)
PART TWO DATA COMMUNICATIONS
51(244)
Data Transmission
55(38)
Concepts and Terminology
57(11)
Analog and Digital Data Transmission
68(8)
Transmission Impairments
76(5)
Channel Capacity
81(6)
Recommended Reading
87(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
87(6)
Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength
90(3)
Guided and Wireless Transmission
93(36)
Guided Transmission Media
95(12)
Wireless Transmission
107(8)
Wireless Propagation
115(4)
Line-of-Sight Transmission
119(5)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
124(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
125(4)
Signal Encoding Techniques
129(42)
Digital Data, Digital Signals
131(11)
Digital Data, Analog Signals
142(10)
Analog Data, Digital Signals
152(7)
Analog Data, Analog Signals
159(6)
Recommended Reading
165(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
166(5)
Digital Data Communication Techniques
171(36)
Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission
173(3)
Types of Errors
176(1)
Error Detection
177(8)
Error Correction
185(6)
Line Configurations
191(2)
Interfacing
193(10)
Recommended Reading
203(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
204(3)
Data Link Control
207(34)
Flow Control
209(6)
Error Control
215(6)
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
221(7)
Recommended Reading
228(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
229(12)
Appendix 7A Performance Issues
232(9)
Multiplexing
241(34)
Frequency Division Multiplexing
243(7)
Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing
250(10)
Statistical Time Division Multiplexing
260(7)
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
267(3)
xDSL
270(2)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
272(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
272(3)
Spread Spectrum
275(20)
The Concept of Spread Spectrum
276(1)
Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
277(5)
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
282(5)
Code-Division Multiple Access
287(4)
Recommended Reading
291(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
291(4)
PART THREE WIDE AREA NETWORKS
295(168)
Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
297(40)
Switching Networks
299(1)
Circuit-Switching Networks
300(4)
Circuit-Switching Concepts
304(3)
Control Signaling
307(9)
Softswitch Architecture
316(2)
Packet-Switching Principles
318(8)
X.25
326(2)
Frame Relay
328(5)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
333(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
334(3)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
337(30)
Protocol Architecture
338(1)
ATM Logical Connections
339(5)
ATM Cells
344(6)
Transmission of ATM Cells
350(3)
ATM Service Categories
353(4)
ATM Adaptation Layer
357(7)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
364(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
364(3)
Routing in Switched Networks
367(28)
Routing in Circuit-Switching Networks
368(2)
Routing in Packet-Switching Networks
370(15)
Least-Cost Algorithms
385(5)
Recommended Reading
390(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
390(5)
Congestion Control in Switched Data Networks
395(36)
Effects of Congestion
397(4)
Congestion Control
401(3)
Traffic Management
404(2)
Congestion Control in Packet-Switching Networks
406(1)
Frame Relay Congestion Control
406(6)
ATM Traffic Management
412(13)
ATM-GFR Traffic Management
425(2)
Recommended Reading
427(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
428(3)
Cellular Wireless Networks
431(32)
Principles of Cellular Networks
432(13)
First-Generation Analog
445(2)
Second-Generation CDMA
447(8)
Third-Generation Systems
455(4)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
459(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
460(3)
PART FOUR LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
463(106)
Local Area Network Overview
465(34)
Background
466(4)
Topologies and Transmission Media
470(5)
LAN Protocol Architecture
475(8)
Bridges
483(7)
Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switches
490(6)
Recommended Reading and Web Site
496(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
496(3)
High-Speed LANs
499(44)
The Emergence of High-Speed LANs
500(2)
Ethernet
502(14)
Token Ring
516(4)
Fibre Channel
520(5)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
525(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
526(17)
Appendix 16A Digital Signal Encoding for LANs
528(7)
Appendix 16B Performance Issues
535(8)
Wireless LANs
543(26)
Overview
544(5)
Wireless LAN Technology
549(4)
IEEE 802.11 Architecture and Services
553(5)
IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control
558(7)
IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer
565(2)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
567(1)
Key Terms and Review Questions
568(1)
PART FIVE COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS
569(220)
Internetwork Protocols
571(44)
Basic Protocol Functions
572(8)
Principles of Internetworking
580(4)
Connectionless Internetworking
584(8)
Internet Protocol
592(8)
IPv6
600(10)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
610(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
611(4)
Internetwork Operation
615(48)
Multicasting
617(9)
Routing Protocols
626(11)
Integrated Services Architecture
637(11)
Differentiated Services
648(9)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
657(2)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
659(4)
Transport Protocols
663(42)
Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Mechanisms
664(19)
TCP
683(8)
TCP Congestion Control
691(9)
UDP
700(2)
Recommended Reading
702(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
702(3)
Network Security
705(40)
Security Requirements and Attacks
707(1)
Confidentiality with Symmetric Encryption
708(9)
Message Authentication and Hash Functions
717(7)
Public-Key Encryption and Digital Signatures
724(7)
Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security
731(5)
IPv4 and IPv6 Security
736(5)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
741(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
741(4)
Distributed Applications
745(44)
Electronic Mail---SMTP and MIME
746(16)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
762(13)
Network Management---SNMP
775(10)
Recommended Reading and Web Sites
785(1)
Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
786(3)
Appendix A RFCs Cited in This Book
789(8)
Appendix B Fourier Analysis
B.1 Fourier Series Representation of Periodic Signals
791(1)
B.2 Fourier Transform Representation of Aperiodic Signals
792(4)
B.3 Recommended Reading
796(1)
Appendix C Sockets Programming
797(2)
Appendix D Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications
799(4)
D.1 Simulation Projects
799(1)
D.2 Performance Modeling
800(1)
D.3 Research Projects
801(1)
D.4 Reading/Report Assignments
801(2)
Glossary803(12)
References815(8)
Index823

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