Preface

About the Author

Ch0: Guide for Readers and Instructors



UNIT ONE FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING



PART ONE OVERVIEW

Ch1: Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet

Ch2: Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications



PART TWO DATA COMMUNICATIONS

Ch3: Data Transmission

Ch4: Transmission Media

Ch5: Signal Encoding Techniques

Ch6: Error Detection and Correction

Ch7: Data Link Control Protocols

Ch8: Multiplexing



PART THREE WIDE AREA NETWORKS

Ch9: WAN Technology and Protocols

Ch10: Cellular Wireless Networks



PART FOUR LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

Ch11: Local Area Network Overview

Ch12: Ethernet

Ch13: Wireless LANs



PART FIVE INTERNET AND TRANSPORT LAYERS

Ch14: The Internet Protocol

Ch15: Transport Protocols



UNIT TWO ADVANCED TOPICS IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING



PART SIX DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Ch16: Advanced Data Communications Topics

Ch17: Wireless Transmission Techniques

Ch18: Wireless Networks



PART SEVEN INTERNETWORKING

Ch19: Routing

Ch20: Congestion Control

Ch21: Internetwork Operation

Ch22: Internetwork Quality of Service

Ch23: Multiprotocol Label Switching



PART EIGHT INTERNET APPLICATIONS

Ch24: Electronic Mail, DNS, and HTTP

Ch25: Internet Multimedia Support



APPENDICES

Appendix A Fourier Analysis

Appendix B Projects and Other Student Exercises for Teaching Data and Computer Communications

References

Index



ONLINE CHAPTERS AND APPENDICES[1] PART NINE NETWORK SECURITY

Ch26: Computer and Network Security Threats

Ch27: Computer and Network Security Techniques

Appendix C Standards Organizations

Appendix D Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission

Appendix E The OSI Model

Appendix F The International Reference Alphabet

Appendix G Proof of the Sampling Theorem

Appendix H Ones Complement Representation and Addition

Appendix I Statistical TDM

Appendix J The Spanning Tree Algorithm

Appendix K LAN Performance Issues

Appendix L Matrix Multiplication and Determinants

Appendix M Queuing Effects

Appendix N Orthogonality, Correlation, and Autocorrelation

Appendix O TCP/IP Example

Appendix P Queue Management and Queueing Discipline

Appendix Q Cryptographic Algorithms

Appendix R Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

Appendix S Augmented Backus-Naur Form

Appendix T Derivations of Equations and Examples

Glossary