Title:
Data communications and networking
Author:
Forouzan, Behrouz A.
ISBN:
9780072322040
9780071181600
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : McGraw-Hill, ©2001.
Physical Description:
xxxii, 908 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series:
McGraw-Hill international editions. Computer science series
McGraw-Hill international editions. Computer science series.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Basic concepts -- 3. The OSI model -- 4. Signals -- 5. Encoding and modulating -- 6. Transmission of digital data: Interfaces and modems -- 7. Transmission media -- 8. Multiplexing -- 9. Error detection and correction -- 10. Data link control -- 11. Data link protocols -- 12. Local area networks -- 13. Metropolitan area networks -- 14. Switching -- 15. Point-to-point protocol (PPP) -- 16. Integrated services digital network (ISDN) -- 17. X.25 -- 18. Frame relay -- 19. ATM -- 20. SONET/SDH -- 21. Networking and internetworking devices -- 22. Transport layer -- 23. Upper OSI layers -- 24. TCP/IP protocol suite: Part 1 -- 25. TCP/IP protocol suite: Part 2, application layer -- Appendixes: -- A. ASCII code -- B. Numbering systems and transformation -- C. Representation of binary numbers -- D. Fourier analysis -- E. Hardware equipment for error detection -- F. Huffman encoding -- G. LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) compression method -- H. Next generation of TCP/IP protocol suite: IPv6 and ICMPv6 -- I. Spanning tree.