Communications and Networking: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by John Cowley BA, Dip TEO, MSc, MEd (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer London
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Communications and Networking: An Introduction provides a clear and easy to follow treatment of the subject, written specifically for undergraduates who have no previous experience in the field. The author takes a step by step approach, with examples and exercises designed to give the reader increased confidence in using and understanding communications systems.

Topics covered include communications technologies, networking models and standards, local area and wide area networks, network protocols, TCP/IP-based networks and network management.

Key features:

• Includes plenty of material on wireless communications, both fixed and mobile

• Offers coverage of network security

• Features many explanatory diagrams

• Incorporates a comprehensive glossary

Written by John Cowley, a lecturer with many years' experience teaching undergraduate programmes, the text takes the reader through the essentials of networking and provides a comprehensive, reliable and thorough treatment of the subject.

The Author's website http://www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/jc9 provides further material in the form of solutions, further examples and other relevant subject materials.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Communications Technologies....Pages 5-34
Networking Models and Standards....Pages 35-45
Local Area Networks....Pages 46-62
Wide Area Networks....Pages 63-78
Network Protocols....Pages 79-104
Internet Application Layer Protocols....Pages 105-127
Network Security....Pages 128-152
Network Management....Pages 153-167
Wireless Networks....Pages 168-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-230

✦ Subjects

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks