Introduction to Computer Networking

✍ Scribed by Thomas G. Robertazzi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives a broad look at both fundamental networking technology and new areas that support it and use it. It is a concise introduction to the most prominent, recent technological topics in computer networking. Topics include network technology such as wired and wireless networks, enabling technologies such as data centers, software defined networking, cloud and grid computing and applications such as networks on chips, space networking and network security. The accessible writing style and non-mathematical treatment makes this a useful book for the student, network and communications engineer, computer scientist and IT professional.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction to Networks....Pages 1-16
Ethernet....Pages 17-28
InfiniBand....Pages 29-34
Wireless Networks....Pages 35-60
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)....Pages 61-65
Optical Networks for Telecommunications....Pages 67-79
Software-Defined Networking....Pages 81-87
Networks on Chips....Pages 89-96
Space Networking....Pages 97-112
Grids, Clouds, and Data Centers....Pages 113-127
AES and Quantum Cryptography....Pages 129-140
Back Matter....Pages 141-154

✦ Subjects

Communications Engineering, Networks;Signal, Image and Speech Processing;Computer Communication Networks