Data and computer communication, seventh edition (William stallings)

                                     

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 communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design. It covers the material in the Computer Communication and Networking core course of the joint ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001.


I. OVERVIEW.
 1. Data Communications and Networking Overview.

 2. Protocol Architecture.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.
 3. Data Transmission.

 4. Guided and Wireless Transmission.

 5. Signal Encoding Techniques.

 6. Digital Data Communication Techniques.

 7. Data Link Control.

 8. Multiplexing.

 9. Spread Spectrum.

III. WIDE AREA NETWORKS.
10. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.

11. Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

12. Routing in Switched Networks.

13. Congestion Control in Switched Data Networks.

14. Cellular Wireless Networks.

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.
15. Local Area Network Overview.

16. High-Speed LANs.

17. Wireless LANs.

V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.
18. Internetwork Protocols.

19. Internetwork Operation.

20. Transport Protocols.

21. Network Security.

22. Distributed Applications.

APPENDICES.
A. RFCs Cited in This Book.

B. Fourier Analysis.

C. Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications.

Glossary.

References.

Index.



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