Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the key principles of computer networking, with examples drawn from the real world of network and protocol design. Using the Internet as the primary example, this best-selling and classic textbook explains various protocols and networking technologies. The systems-oriented approach encourages students to think about how individual network components fit into a larger, complex system of interactions.
This book has a completely updated content with expanded coverage of the topics of utmost importance to networking professionals and students, including P2P, wireless, network security, and network applications such as e-mail and the Web, IP telephony and video streaming, and peer-to-peer file sharing. There is now increased focus on application layer issues where innovative and exciting research and design is currently the center of attention. Other topics include network design and architecture; the ways users can connect to a network; the concepts of switching, routing, and internetworking; end-to-end protocols; congestion control and resource allocation; and end-to-end data.
Each chapter includes a problem statement, which introduces issues to be examined; shaded sidebars that elaborate on a topic or introduce a related advanced topic; What’s Next? discussions that deal with emerging issues in research, the commercial world, or society; and exercises.
This book is written for graduate or upper-division undergraduate classes in computer networking. It will also be useful for industry professionals retraining for network-related assignments, as well as for network practitioners seeking to understand the workings of network protocols and the big picture of networking.
Key Features
- Completely updated content with expanded coverage of the topics of utmost importance to networking professionals and students, including P2P, wireless, security, and applications
- Increased focus on application layer issues where innovative and exciting research and design is currently the center of attention
- Free downloadable network simulation software and lab experiments manual available
In Praise of Computer Networks
Recommended Reading List
Dedication
Foreword
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface
1. Foundation
1.1 Applications
1.2 Requirements
1.3 Network Architecture
1.4 Implementing Network Software
1.5 Performance
Summary
Further Reading
2. Getting Connected
2.1 Perspectives on Connecting
2.2 Encoding (NRZ, NRZI, MANCHESTER, 4B/5B)
2.3 Framing
2.4 Error Detection
2.5 Reliable Transmission
2.6 Ethernet and Multiple Access Networks (802.3)
2.7 Wireless
Summary
Further Reading
3. Internetworking
3.1 Switching and Bridging
3.2 Basic Internetworking (IP)
3.3 Routing
3.4 Implementation and Performance
3.5 Summary
Further Reading
4. Advanced Internetworking
4.1 The Global Internet
4.2 Multicast
4.3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
4.4 Routing among Mobile Devices
4.5 Summary
Further Reading
5. End-to-End Protocols
5.1 Simple Demultiplexer (UDP)
5.2 Reliable Byte Stream (TCP)
5.3 Remote Procedure Call
5.4 Transport for Real-Time Applications (RTP)
Summary
Further Reading
6. Congestion Control and Resource Allocation
6.1 Issues in Resource Allocation
6.2 Queuing Disciplines
6.3 TCP Congestion Control
6.4 Congestion-Avoidance Mechanisms
6.5 Quality of Service
6.6 Summary
Further Reading
7. End-to-End Data
7.1 Presentation Formatting
7.2 Multimedia Data
7.3 Summary
Further Reading
8. Network Security
8.1 Cryptographic Building Blocks
8.2 Key Predistribution
8.3 Authentication Protocols
8.4 Example Systems
8.5 Firewalls
Summary
Further Reading
9. Applications
9.1 Traditional Applications
9.2 Multimedia Applications
9.3 Infrastructure Services
9.4 Overlay Networks
9.5 Summary
Further Reading
Solutions to Select Exercises
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
- Peterson and Davie, Computer Networks,4e, MK, 9780123705488, Mar 2007, 851 pp, $99.95
- Vasseur and Dunkels, Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP, 9780123751652, Jun 2010, 432 pp, $69.95
- Ramaswami, Optical Networks, 3e, 9780123740922, Sep 2009, 928pp, $89.95
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