Table of contents:
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
About the Author --
Chapter 0 Guide for Readers and Instructors --
0.1 Outline of the Book --
0.2 A Roadmap for Readers and Instructors --
0.3 Internet and Web Resources --
0.4 Standards --
Unit One Fundamentals --
Part One Overview --
Chapter 1 Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet --
1.1 Data Communications and Networking for Today's Enterprise --
1.2 A Communications Model --
1.3 Data Communications --
1.4 Networks --
1.5 The Internet --
1.6 An Example Configuration Chapter 2 Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications --
2.1 The Need for a Protocol Architecture --
2.2 A Simple Protocol Architecture --
2.3 The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture --
2.4 Standardization within a Protocol Architecture --
2.5 Traditional Internet-Based Applications --
2.6 Multimedia --
2.7 Sockets Programming --
2.8 Recommended Reading and Animation --
2.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
2.10 Sockets Programming Assignments --
Appendix 2A The Trivial File Transfer Protocol --
Part Two Data Communications --
Chapter 3 Data Transmission 3.1 Concepts and Terminology --
3.2 Analog and Digital Data Transmission --
3.3 Transmission Impairments --
3.4 Channel Capacity --
3.5 Recommended Reading --
3.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength --
Chapter 4 Transmission Media --
4.1 Guided Transmission Media --
4.2 Wireless Transmission --
4.3 Wireless Propagation --
4.4 Line-of-Sight Transmission --
4.5 Recommended Reading --
4.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Chapter 5 Signal Encoding Techniques --
5.1 Digital Data, Digital Signals --
5.2 Digital Data, Analog Signals 5.3 Analog Data, Digital Signals --
5.4 Recommended Reading and Animations --
5.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Chapter 6 Error Detection and Correction --
6.1 Types of Errors --
6.2 Error Detection --
6.3 Parity Check --
6.4 The Internet Checksum --
6.5 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) --
6.6 Forward Error Correction --
6.7 Recommended Reading and Animations --
6.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Chapter 7 Data Link Control Protocols --
7.1 Flow Control --
7.2 Error Control --
7.3 High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) --
7.4 Recommended Reading and Animations 7.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Chapter 8 Multiplexing --
8.1 Frequency-Division Multiplexing --
8.2 Synchronous Time-Division Multiplexing --
8.3 Cable Modem --
8.4 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line --
8.5 xDSL --
8.6 Multiple Channel Access --
8.7 Recommended Reading and Animations --
8.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems --
Part Three Wide Area Networks --
Chapter 9 WAN Technology and Protocols --
9.1 Switched Communications Networks --
9.2 Circuit-Switching Networks --
9.3 Circuit-Switching Concepts --
9.4 Softswitch Architecture --
9.5 Packet-Switching Principles

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Two-time winner of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year award from the Textbook and Academic Authors AssociationFor a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments. With a focus on the most current technology and a ...