Internetworking: Technological Foundations and Applications

✍ Scribed by Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 908
• Series: X.media.publishing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is supposed to serve as a comprehensive and instructive guide through the new world of digital communication. On the physical layer optical and electrical cabling technology are described as well as wireless communication technologies. On the data link layer local area networks (LANs) are introduced together with the most popular LAN technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN technologies including IEEE 802.x, Bluetooth, or ZigBee. A wide range of WAN technologies are covered including contemporary high speed technologies like PDH and SDH up to high speed wireless WANs (WiMAX) and 4th generation wireless telephone networks LTE. Routing technologies conclude the treatment of the data link layer. Next, there is the Internet layer with the Internet protocol IP that establishes a virtual uniform network out of the net of heterogeneous networks. In detail, both versions, IPv4 as well as the successor IPv6 are covered in detail as well as ICMP, NDP, and Mobile IP. In the subsequent transport layer protocol functions are provided to offer a connection-oriented and reliable transport service on the basis of the simple and unreliable IP. The basic protocols TCP and UDP are introduced as well as NAT, the network address translation. Beside transport layer security protocols like SSL and TLS are presented. On the upmost application layer popular Internet application protocols are described like DNS, SMTP, PGP, (S)FTP, NFS, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and World Wide Web.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Prologue....Pages 1-27
The Foundation of the Internet: TCP/IP Reference Model....Pages 29-61
Physical Layer....Pages 63-129
Network Access Layer (1): Wired LAN Technologies....Pages 131-259
Network Access Layer (2): Wireless Mobile LAN Technologies....Pages 261-333
Network Access Layer (3): WAN Technologies....Pages 335-454
Internet Layer....Pages 455-590
Transport Layer....Pages 591-663
Application Layer and Internet Applications....Pages 665-830
Epilogue....Pages 831-847
Back Matter....Pages 849-903

✦ Subjects

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems and Communication Service; Communications Engineering, Networks; Engineerin