| Computer Networks, Fourth Edition | ||
| By Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall | |
| Pub Date | : March 17, 2003 | |
| ISBN | : 0-13-066102-3 | |
| Pages | : 384 | |
The world's leading introduction to networking-fully updated for tomorrow's key technologies.
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition
is the ideal introduction to today's networks-and tomorrow's. This
classic best seller has been thoroughly updated to reflect the newest
and most important networking technologies with a special emphasis on
wireless networking, including 802.11, Bluetooth, broadband wireless,
ad hoc networks, i-mode, and WAP. But fixed networks have not been
ignored either with coverage of ADSL, gigabit Ethernet, peer-to-peer
networks, NAT, and MPLS. And there is lots of new material on applications, including over 60 pages on the Web, plus Internet radio, voice over IP, and video on demand.Finally, the coverage of network security has been revised and expanded to fill an entire chapter.
Author,
educator, and researcher Andrew S. Tanenbaum, winner of the ACM Karl
V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, carefully explains how
networks work on the inside, from underlying hardware at the physical
layer up through the top-level application layer. Tanenbaum covers all this and more:
- Physical layer (e.g., copper, fiber, wireless, satellites, and Internet over cable)
- Data link layer (e.g., protocol principles, protocol verification, HDLC, and PPP)
- MAC Sublayer (e.g., gigabit Ethernet, 802.11, broadband wireless, and switching)
- Network layer (e.g., routing algorithms, congestion control, QoS, IPv4, and IPv6)
- Transport layer (e.g., socket programming, UDP, TCP, RTP, and network performance)
- Application layer (e.g., e-mail, the Web, PHP, wireless Web, MP3, and streaming audio)
- Network security (e.g., AES, RSA, quantum cryptography, IPsec, and Web security)
The book gives detailed descriptions of the
principles associated with each layer and presents many examples drawn
from the Internet and wireless networks.
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