Communications and Networking: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by John Cowley (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook presents a detailed introduction to the essentials of networking and communications technologies. Revised and updated, this new edition retains the step-by-step approach of the original, organised to help those without a strong knowledge of the subject matter. Features: provides chapter-ending summaries and review questions, an Appendix on TCP/IP packet formats and an expanded Glossary; supplies supplementary material at the associated Springer website, including teaching slides, solutions to the end-of-chapter questions and supplementary exercises with solutions; presents a greater emphasis on mobile computing and network security, and extended coverage of IPv6 (NEW); discusses networking models and standards, local area and wide area networks, network protocols, TCP/IP-based networks, network management and wireless communications; examines grid and cloud computing, microblogging, mobile ad hoc networks, near-field communication, Power over Ethernet and the Ground Positioning System (NEW).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Communications Technologies....Pages 5-34
Networking Models and Standards....Pages 35-45
Local Area Networks....Pages 47-64
Wide Area Networks....Pages 65-80
Network Protocols....Pages 81-109
Internet Application-Layer Protocols....Pages 111-135
Network Security....Pages 137-168
Network Management....Pages 169-185
Wireless Networks....Pages 187-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-251

✦ Subjects

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks