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Data and Computer Communications, 6/e

William Stallings

Published October, 1999 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 2000, 864 pp.
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ISBN 0-13-084370-9


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Summary

For one- or two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments. This best-selling text offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field—including an up-to-date report on leading-edge technologies. 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 Networks course of the joint ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 1991.

Features


NEW—Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; and new “field-tested” problems.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.
NEW—A survey of xDSL—Especially Asymmetric Digital Subscribe Line (ADSL) technology.
  • Provides students with a broad survey of the new digital line techniques.
NEW—Updated coverage of Gigabit Ethernet.
  • Presents students with leading-edge high-speed LAN design issues.
NEW—Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms.
  • Enables students to understand ATM support for IP-based network traffic.
NEW—A separate chapter on Congestion Control—With expanded coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques.
  • Brings together in one place design issues related to congestion control for different types of networks, enabling students to understand underlying principles.
NEW—A new section on IP Multicasting.
  • Introduces students to the key concepts needed to support multimedia.
NEW—A new chapter on Integrated and Differentiated Services—Covers integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol.
  • Gives students a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the new generation of Internet technologies.
NEW—A new section on TCP Congestion Control.
  • Provides students with a unified discussion of this ongoing area of research.
A modular format.
  • Allows instructors to easily design a course to meet their individual needs. For students, it breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts.
Unifying principles—Repeatedly emphasizes such principles as multiplexing, flow control, and error control. Highlights these principles and contrasts their application in specific areas of technology.
  • Enables students to understand how the same protocol design principles are applied at different levels of the protocol architecture.
Design Approaches—Examines alternative approaches to meeting specific communication requirements.
  • Gives students a deeper understanding of communication system and protocol design.
Standards—Offers a comprehensive discussion of the current status and future direction of related technology standards.
  • Gives students an understanding of the central role of standards in network and protocol design.
Up-to-date coverage of wireless technology and networks—Including spread spectrum techniques and wireless LANs.
  • Enables students to compare the various approaches. Comprehensive coverage of TCP/IP.
  • Provides students a comprehensive understanding of this architecture as well as the important protocols that make up the architecture.
Detailed discussion of all wide-area networking technologies—Including ATM itself, as well as ATM congestion control and ATM Adaption Layer (AAL).
  • Enables students to compare and evaluate competing approaches and thus understand each better.
Detailed discussion of all local area networking technologies—Including high-speed LANs, such as Gigabit Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM LANs, and Fibre Channel, and wireless LANs.
  • Enables students to compare and evaluate competing approaches and thus understand each better.
Comprehensive coverage of internetworking—Including IPv6. Covers the important issue of quality of service (QoS), including integrated and differentiated services and RSVP.
  • Provides students with a systematic, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey, including bridges, routers, and routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, and QoS approaches.
Clear, thorough treatment of network security—Including IP security.
  • Provides accessible coverage of one of the hottest, more complex, topics in networking.
Comprehensive and unified discussion of data encoding for transmission.
  • Shows students the underlying principles behind this topic.
Project support—The Instructor's Manual not only includes guidance on how to assign and structure projects, but also includes a set of suggested projects that covers a broad range of topics from the text: Research Projects, Modeling and Simulation Projects, and Reading/Report Assignments.
  • Provides students with hands-on experience to reinforce concepts from the text.
Over 250 homework problems—With a range of difficulty. Solutions are provided in the Instructor's Manual.
  • Gives students opportunity to test their comprehension of concepts. Strong pedagogical support—Includes liberal use of figures and tables; glossary; list of acronyms; recommended reading list and Websites; and a bibliography.
  • Provides students with convenient in-test study and review tools.


Table of Contents
I. OVERVIEW.
    1. Introduction.
    2. Protocols and Architecture.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.
    3. Data Transmission.
    4. Transmission Media.
    5. Data Encoding.
    6. The Datacommunication Interface.
    7. Data Link Control.
    8. Multiplexing.
III. WIDE-AREA NETWORKS.
    9. Circuit Switching.
    10. Packet Switching.
    11. ATM and Frame Relay.
    12. Congestion Control in Data Networks.
IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.
    13. LAN Technology.
    14. LAN Systems.
V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.
    15. Internetwork Protocols.
    16. Internetwork Operation.
    17. Transport Protocols.
    18. Network Security.
    19. Distributed Applications.
    Appendix A. ISDN and Broadband ISDN.
    Appendix B. RFCs Cited in This Book.
    Appendix C. Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications.
    Glossary.
    References.
    Index.

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