This newly revised edition continues to provide an enduring, practical understanding of networks and their building blocks through rich, example-based instruction. The authors' focus is on the why of network design, not just the specifications comprising today's systems but how key technologies and protocols actually work in the real world to solve specific problems.
WHY THIS BOOK:
The new edition makes less use of computer code to explain protocols than earlier editions. The authors' use pseudocode where appropriate and resort to C code only when it adds significantly to the explanation of a protocol or its implementation. In this way, students will learn how to go about constructing a network from the ground up and for each building block presented they will see its real world implementation.
The goals of this new edition include removing or reducing the coverage of outdated protocols that do not have a great deal of impact on today's networks or teach an important principle and to increase and update coverage of topics that are particularly important to today's students and professionals (e.g., security, wireless, multimedia applications).
Moreover, this new edition shifts the focus somewhat higher in the protocol stack where there is generally more innovative and exciting work going on at the application and session layers than at, say, the link and physical layers.Approx. 320 illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1. Foundation; Chapter 2 Direct Link Networks; Chapter 3. Packet Switching; Chapter 4. Internetworking; Chapter 5. End-to-End Protocols; Chapter 6. Congestion Control & Resource Allocation; Chapter 7. End-to-end Data; Chapter 8. Security; Chapter 9. Applications
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