Data and Computer Communications, 8th Edition

 

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