Two-time winner of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association, including the current edition.
For a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments.
With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text 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 in detail all the critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design. The Eighth Edition provides updated coverage of multimedia, Gigabit and 10 Gbps Ethernet, WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, security, and more
Table of Contents:
Chapter 0 Reader's and Instructor's Guide
0.1 Outline of the Book
0.2 Roadmap
0.3 Internet and Web Resources
0.4 Standards
I. OVERVIEW
1. Data Communications, Data Networking, and the Internet
1.1 Data Communications and Networking for Today's Enterprise
1.2 A Communications Model
1.3 Data Communications
1.4 Networks
1.5 The Internet
1.6 An Example Configuration
2. Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications
2.1 The Need for a Protocol Architecture
2.2 A Simple Protocol Architecture
2.3 The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture
2.4 The OSI Model
2.5 Standardization within a Protocol Architecture
2.6 Traditional Internet-Based Applications
2.7 Multimedia
2.8 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
2.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Appendix 2A The Trivial File Transfer Protocol
II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS
3. Data Transmission
3.1 Concepts and Terminology
3.2 Analog and Digital Data Transmission
3.3 Transmission Impairments
3.4 Channel Capacity
3.5 Recommended Reading and Web Site
3.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength
4. Guided and Wireless Transmission
4.1 Guided Transmission Media
4.2 Wireless Transmission
4.3 Wireless Propagation
4.4 Line-of-Sight Transmission
4.5 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
4.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
5. Signal Encoding Techniques
5.1 Digital Data, Digital Signals
5.2 Digital Data, Analog Signals
5.3 Analog Data, Digital Signals
5.4 Analog Data, Analog Signals
5.5 Recommended Reading
5.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
6. Digital Data Communication Techniques
6.1 Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission
6.2 Types of Errors
6.3 Error Detection
6.4 Error Correction
6.5 Line Configurations
6.6 Recommended Reading
6.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
7. Data Link Control
7.1 Flow Control
7.2 Error Control
7.3 High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
7.4 Recommended Reading
7.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Appendix 7A Performance Issues
8. Multiplexing
8.1 Frequency-Division Multiplexing
8.2 Synchronous Time-Division Multiplexing
8.3 Statistical Time-Division Multiplexing
8.4 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
8.5 xDSL
8.6 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
8.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
9. Spread Spectrum
9.1 The Concept of Spread Spectrum
9.2 Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
9.3 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
9.4 Code-Division Multiple Access
9.5 Recommended Reading and Web Site
9.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
III. WIDE AREA NETWORKS
10. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
10.1 Switched Communications Networks
10.2 Circuit Switching Networks
10.3 Circuit Switching Concepts
10.4 Softswitch Architecture
10.5 Packet-Switching Principles
10.6 X.25
10.7 Frame Relay
10.8 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
10.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
11. Asynchronous Transfer Mode
11.1 Protocol Architecture
11.2 ATM Logical Connections
11.3 ATM Cells
11.4 Transmission of ATM Cells
11.5 ATM Service Categories
11.6 ATM Adaptation Layer
11.8 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
11.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
12. Routing in Switched Networks
12.1 Routing in Packet-Switching Networks
12.2 Examples: Routing in ARPANET
12.3 Least-Cost Algorithms
12.4 Recommended Reading
12.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
13. Congestion Control in Switched Data Networks
13.1 Effects of Congestion
13.2 Congestion Control
13.3 Traffic Management
13.4 Congestion Control in Packet-Switching Networks
13.5 Frame Relay Congestion Control
13.6 ATM Traffic Management
13.7 ATM-GFR Traffic Management
13.8 Recommended Reading
13.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
14. Cellular Wireless Networks
14.1 Principles of Cellular Networks
14.2 First Generation Analog
14.3 Second Generation CDMA
14.4 Third Generation Systems
14.5 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
14.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
15. Local Area Network Overview
15.1 Background
15.2 Topologies and Transmission Media
15.3 LAN Protocol Architecture
15.4 Bridges
15.5 Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switches
15.6 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
15.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
16. High-Speed LANs
16.1 The Emergence of High-Speed LANs
16.2 Ethernet
16.3 Fibre Channel
16.4 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
16.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Appendix 16A Digital Signal Encoding for LANs
Appendix 16B Performance Issues
Appendix 16C Scrambling
17. Wireless LANs
17.1 Overview
17.2 Wireless LAN Technology
17.3 IEEE 802.11 Architecture and Services
17.4 IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control
17.5 IEEE 802.11Physical Layer
17.6 IEEE 802.11 Security Considerations
17.7 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
17.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
V. INTERNET AND TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS
18. Internetwork Protocols
18.1 Basic Protocol Functions
18.2 Principles of Internetworking
18.3 Internet Protocol Operation
18.4 Internet Protocol
18.5 IPv6
18.6 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
18.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
19. Internetwork Operation
19.1 Multicasting
19.2 Routing Protocols
19.3 Integrated Services Architecture
19.4 Differentiated Services
19.5 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
19.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
20. Transport Protocols
20.1 Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Mechanisms
20.2 TCP
20.3 TCP Congestion Control
20.4 UDP
20.5 Recommended Reading
20.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
VI. INTERNET APPLICATIONS
21. Network Security
21.1 Security Requirements and Attacks
21.2 Confidentiality with Conventional Encryption
21.3 Message Authentication and Hash Functions
21.4 Public-Key Encryption and Digital Signatures
21.5 Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security
21.6 IPv4 and IPv6 Security
21.7 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
21.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
22. Internet Applications - Electronic Mail and Network Management
22.1 Electronic Mail: SMTP and MIME
22.2 Network Management: SNMP
22.3 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
22.4 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
23. Internet Applications - Internet Directory Service and World Wide Web
23.1 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
23.2 Internet Directory Service: DNS
23.3 Web Access: HTTP
24. Internet Applications - Multimedia
24.1 Digital Audio and Video
24.2 Audio and Video Compression
24.3 Streaming Audio and Video
24.4 Voice Over IP
24.5 Session Initiation Protocol
24.6 Real-Time Transport Protocol
APPENDICES
Appendix A Fourier Analysis
A.1 Fourier Series Representation of Periodic Signals
A.2 Fourier Transform Representation of Aperiodic Signals
A.3 Recommended Reading
Appendix B Sockets Programming
Appendix C Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications
C.1 Simulation Projects
C.2 Performance Modeling
C.3 Research Projects
C.4 Reading/Report Assignments
Glossary
References
Index
ONLINE APPENDICES
Appendix D Standards Organizations
D.1 The Importance of Standards
D.2 Standards and Regulation
D.3 Standards-Setting Organizations
Appendix E The International Reference Alphabet
Appendix F Proof of the Sampling Theorem
Appendix G Physical-Layer Interfacing
G.1 V.24/EIA-232-F
G.2 ISDN Physical Interface
Appendix H The OSI Model
H.1 The Model
H.2 The OSI Layers
Appendix I Queuing Effects
I.1 Queuing Models
I.2 Queuing Results
Appendix J Orthogonality, Correlation, and Autocorrelation
J.1 Correlation and Autocorrelation
J.2 Orthogonal Codes
Appendix The TCP/IP Checksum
Appendix Sockets: A Programmer's Introduction
G.1 Versions of Sockets
G.2 Sockets, Socket Descriptors, Ports, and Connections
G.3 The Client/Server Model of Communication
G.4 Sockets Elements
G.5 Stream and Datagram Sockets
G.6 Run-Time Program Control
G.7 Remote Execution of a Windows Console Application
Appendix Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
I.1 Uniform Resource Locator
I.2 Uniform Resource Identifier
I.3 To Learn More
Appendix Augmented Backus-Naur Form
About the Author :
William Stallings has made a unique contribution to understanding the broad sweep of technical developments in computer networking and computer architecture. He has authored 18 titles, and counting revised editions, a total of 35 books on various aspects of these subjects. In over 20 years in the field, he has been a technical contributor, technical manager, and an executive with several high-technology firms. Currently he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions.
He has six times received the prize for best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.
Bill has designed and implemented both TCP/IP-based and OSI-based protocol suites on a variety of computers and operating systems, ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. As a consultant, he has advised government agencies, computer and software vendors, and major users on the design, selection, and use of networking software and products.
Dr. Stallings holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science and a B.S. from Notre Dame in Electrical Engineering.
