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Computer Networking and the Internet by Fred Halsall

With the advent of the World Wide Web the global Internet has rapidly become the dominant type of computer network. It now enables people around the world to use the Web for E-Commerce and interactive entertainment applications, in addition to e-mail and IP telephony. As a result, the study of computer networking is now synonymous with the study of the Internet and its applications. The 5th edition of this highly successful text has been completely revised to focus entirely on the Internet, and so avoids the necessity of describing protocols and architectures that are no longer relevant. As many Internet applications now involve multiple data types - text, images, speech, audio and video - the book explains in detail how they are represented.

A number of different access networks are now used to gain access to the global Internet. Separate chapters illustrate how each type of access network operates, and this is followed by a detailed account of the architecture and protocols of the Internet itself and the operation of the major application protocols.

This body of knowledge is made accessible by extensive use of illustrations and worked examples that make complex systems more understandable at first glance. This makes the book ideal for self-study or classroom use for students in Computer Science or Engineering, as well as being a comprehensive reference for practitioners who require a definitive guide to networking.

About Fred Halsall

Fred Halsall is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales. The previous editions of this book and his companion text on Multimedia Communications have all been widely acclaimed and translated into several different languages. He has carried out many research consultancies for a number of major communication companies and presented seminars at many international conferences.

Chapter 1 Data communications and networking basic
1.1 Overview
1.2 Application and networking terminology
1.2.1 Data types and their characteristics
1.2.2 Data communications and networking terminology
1.2.3 Network types
1.2.4 Network QoS
1.2.5 Application QoS
1.3 Digital communication basics
1.3.1 Transmission media
1.3.2 Transmission control schemes
1.4 rotocol basics
1.4.1Error control
1.4.2 Idle RQ
1.4.3 Continuous RQ
1.4.4 Flow control
1.4.5 Sequence numbers
1.4.6 Layered architecture
1.4.7 Protocol specification
1.4.8 User service primitives
1.4.9 The HDLC protocol
1.5 Protocol stacks
1.5.1The Internet protocol stack
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 2 Telephone networks and modems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Transmission systems
2.2.1 Analog subscriber lines
2.2.2 PSTN modems
2.2.3 Digital subscriber lines
2.2.4 Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
2.2.5 Synchronous digital hierarchy
2.3 Access network signaling
2.3.1 Analog access circuits
2.3.2 ISDN digital access circuits
2.4 Trunk network signaling
2.5 Broadband modems
2.5.1 ADSL
2.5.2 VDSL
2.6 Internet service providers
2.6.1 Home and small office users
2.6.2 Business users
2.6.3 Broadband modems
2.6.4 The PPP link layer protocol
2.6.5 ISP networks and the Internet
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 3 Local area networks and intranets
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Ethernet / IEEE 802.3
3.2.1 CSMA/CD
3.2.2 Wiring configurations
3.2.3 Frame format and operational parameters
3.2.4 Frame transmission and reception
3.3 LAN interconnection technologies
3.3.1 Repeater hubs
3.3.2 Bridging hubs
3.3.1 Switching hubs
3.4 High-speed LANs
3.4.1 Fast Ethernet
3.4.2 Switched Fast Ethernet
3.4.3 Gigabit Ethernet
3.5 Virtual LANs
3.5.1 IEEE 802.1Q
3.6 LAN protocols
3.6.1 Physical layer
3.6.2 MAC sublayer
3.6.3 LLC sublayer
3.6.4 Network layer
3.7 Multisite LAN interconnection technologies
3.7.1 Intersite gateways
3.7.2 ISDN switched connections
3.7.3 Frame relay
3.7.4 High bit rate leased lines
3.7.5 Metropolitan area networks
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 4 Wireless networks
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Bluetooth
4.2.1 Radio interface
4.2.2 Configuration and terminology
4.2.3 Baseband packet transmissions
4.2 4 Baseband packet formats
4.2.5 Error control
4.2.6 The link manager protocol and establishing a piconet
4.2.7 L2CAP
4.2.8 Service discovery protocol
4.2.9 Protocol stack and application profiles
4.2.10 IEEE 802.15
4.3 Wireless LANs
4.3.1 Wireless media
4.3.2 MAC sublayer protocol
4.4 Cellular radio networks
4.4.1 Functional architecture of GSM
4.4.2 Functional architecture of GSM/GPRS
4.4.3 Functional architecture of UMTS
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 5 Entertainment networks
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Cable television networks
5.2.1 HFC networks
5.2.2 Cable modems
5.2.3 MMDS and LMDS
5.2.4 IEEE 802.16
5.3 Satellite television networks
5.3.1 Broadcast television principles
5.3.2 Digital television
5.3.3 Interactive services
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 6 The Internet protocol
6.1 Introduction
6.2 IP datagrams
6.3 Fragmentation and reassembly
6.4 IP addresses
6.4.1 Class-based addressing
6.4.2 Subnetting
6.4.3 Classless addressing
6.4.4 Network address translation
6.5 Routing algorithms
6.5.1 Static routing
6.5.2 Flooding
6.5.3 Distance vector routing
6.5.4 Link-state shortest-path-first routing
6.5.5 Tunneling
6.5.6 Broadcast routing
6.6 Routing in the Internet
6.6.1 Internet structure and terminology
6.6.2 ARP and RARP
6.6.3 DHCP
6.6.4 OSPF
6.6.5 BGP
6.6.6 Multicast routing
6.6.7 IGMP
6.6.8 Mbone
6.6.9 ICMP
6.6.10 Mobile IP
6.7 QoS support
6.7.1 Integrated services
6.7.2 Differentiated services
6.7.3 MPLS
6.8 IPv6
6.8.1 Datagram format
6.8.2 Address structure
6.8.3 Extension headers
6.8.4 Autoconfiguration
6.9 IPv6 / IPv4 interoperability
6.9.1 Dual protocols
6.9.2 Dual stacks and tunnelling
6.9.3 Translators
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 7 Transport protocols
7.1 Introduction
7.2 TCP / IP protocol suite
7.3 TCP
7.3.1 User service
7.3.2 Protocol operation
7.3.3 Additional features
7.3.4 Protocol specification
7.4 UDP
7.4.1 User services
7.4.2 Protocol operation
7.5 RTP and RTCP
7.5.1 RTP
7.5.2 RTCP
7.6 Wireless TCP
7.6.1 Indirect TCP
7.6.2 Snooping TCP
7.6.3 TCP over cellular radio networks
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 8 Internet applications
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Domain name system
8.2.2 DNS resource records
8.2.3 DNS query messages
8.2.4 Name servers
8.2.5 Service requests
8.3 Electronic mail
8.3.1 Structure of e-mail messages
8.3.2 Message content
8.3.3 Message transfer
8.3.4 E-mail gateways
8.4 FTP
8.4.1 Overview
8.4.2 File content representation
8.4.3 FTP operation
8.4.4 Command and reply message format
8.4.5 Example
8.4.6 Anonymous FTP
8.5 TFTP
8.5.1 Protocol
8.6 Internet telephony
8.6.1 SIP
8.6.2 SDP
8.6.3 GLP
8.6.4 H.323
8.7 SNMP
8.7.1 Structure of management information
8.7.2 Protocol
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 9 The World Wide Web
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Overview
9.3 URLs and HTTP
9.3.1 URLs
9.3.2 HTTP
9.4 HTML
9.4.1 Text format directives
9.4.2 Lists
9.4.3 Color
9.4.4 Images and lines
9.4.5 Tables
9.4.6 Forms and CGI scripts
9.4.7 Web mail
9.4.8 Frames
9.4.9 Extended HTML
9.5 Java and JavaScript
9.5.1 Java
9.5.2 JavaScript
9.6 Audio and video
9.6.1 Streaming using a Web server
9.6.2 Steaming servers and RTSP
9.7 Wireless Web
9.7.1 WAP 2.0
Summary
Exercises
Chapter 10 Security
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Data encryption
10.2.1 Terminology
10.2.2 Basic techniques
10.2.3 The data encryption standard
10.2.4 IDEA
10.2.5 The RSA algorithm
10.3 Nonrepudiation
10.4 Authentication
10.5 Public key certification authorities
10.6 E-mail privacy
10.7 Network security
10.7.1 IP security
10.7.2 Security in wireless networks
10.8 Web security
10.8.1 SSL
10.8.2 SET
Summary
Exercises
Appendix A Multimedia data representation and compression
Appendix B Error detection methods
Appendix C Forward error control
Appendix D Radio propagation and transmission basics

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Title

Computer Networking and the Internet by Fred Halsall

Author

Fred Halsall

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Pearson Education (US)

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2005-01-27

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832

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