Data and Computer Communications (10th Edition)

Description

With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text from Pearson offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field. Emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design, it explores all the critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design in detail.

Key Features

• A modular format—This structure breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts, thus making learning easier for students.
• Unifying principles—The text repeatedly emphasizes such principles as multiplexing, flow control, and error control, and contrasts their application in specific areas of technology. This enables students to understand how the same protocol design principles are applied at different levels of the protocol architecture.
• Standards—A comprehensive discussion of the current status and future direction of related technology standards helps students understand the central role of standards in network and protocol design.
• More than 250 homework problems—Problems ranging in difficulty give students the opportunity to test their comprehension of concepts.
• Strong pedagogical support—The liberal use of figures and tables; glossary; recommended reading list and Websites; and a bibliography provide students with convenient study tools.”

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet
2. Chapter 2 Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications
3. Chapter 3 Data Transmission
4. Chapter 4 Transmission Media
5. Chapter 5 Signal Encoding Techniques
6. Chapter 6 Error Detection and Correction
7. Chapter 7  Data Link Control Protocols
8. Chapter 8 Multiplexing
9. Chapter 9 WAN Technology and Protocols
10. Chapter 10 Cellular Wireless Networks
11. Chapter 11 Local Area Network Overview
12. Chapter 12 Ethernet
13. Chapter 13 Wireless LANs
14. Chapter 14 The Internet Protocol
15. Chapter 15 Transport Protocols
16. Chapter 16 Advanced Data Communications Topics
17. Chapter 17 Wireless Transmission Techniques
18. Chapter 18 Wireless Networks
19. Chapter 19 Routing
20. Chapter 20 Congestion Control
21. Chapter 21 Internetwork Operation
22. Chapter 22 Internetwork Quality of Service
23. Chapter 23 Multiprotocol Label Switching
24. Chapter 24 Electronic Mail, DNS, and HTTP
25. Chapter 25 Internet Multimedia Support
26. Chapter 26 Computer and Network Security Threats (online)
27. Chapter 27 Computer and Network Security Techniques (online)