Computer networks / Andrew S. Tanenbaum Textbook :

By:

Tanenbaum, Andrew S, 1944- [Author:]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Eng Publication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall PTR, 1996Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvii, 813 pages. : illustrations., maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780133942484

Subject(s):

Computer networks

LOC classification:

TK5105.5 TAN

Contents:

PREFACE XV 1 INTRODUCTION 1 (76) 1.1 USES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS 3 (4) 1.1.1 Networks for Companies 3 (1) 1.1.2 Networks for People 4 (2) 1.1.3 Social Issues 6 (1) 1.2 NETWORK HARDWARE 7 (9) 1.2.1 Local Area Networks 9 (1) 1.2.2 Metropolitan Area Networks 10 (1) 1.2.3 Wide Area Networks 11 (2) 1.2.4 Wireless Networks 13 (3) 1.2.5 Internetworks 16 (1) 1.3 NETWORK SOFTWARE 16 (12) 1.3.1 Protocol Hierarchies 17 (4) 1.3.2 Design Issues for the Layers 21 (1) 1.3.3 Interfaces and Services 22 (1) 1.3.4 Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Services 23 (2) 1.3.5 Service Primitives 25 (2) 1.3.6 The Relationship of Services to Protocols 27 (1) 1.4 REFERENCE MODELS 28 (16) 1.4.1 The OSI Reference Model 28 (7) 1.4.2 The TCP/IP Reference Model 35 (3) 1.4.3 A Comparison of the OSI and TCP Reference Models 38 (2) 1.4.4 A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols 40 (3) 1.4.5 A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model 43 (1) 1.5 EXAMPLE NETWORKS 44 (12) 1.5.1 Novell NetWare 45 (2) 1.5.2 The ARPANET 47 (3) 1.5.3 NSFNET 50 (2) 1.5.4 The Internet 52 (2) 1.5.5 Gigabit Testbeds 54 (2) 1.6 EXAMPLE DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES 56 (10) 1.6.1 SMDS--Switched Multimegabit Data Service 57 (2) 1.6.2 X.25 Networks 59 (1) 1.6.3 Frame Relay 60 (1) 1.6.4 Broadband ISDN and ATM 61 (5) 1.6.5 Comparison of Services 66 (1) 1.7 NETWORK STANDARDIZATION 66 (6) 1.7.1 Who's Who in the Telecommunications World 67 (2) 1.7.2 Who's Who in the International Standards World 69 (1) 1.7.3 Who's Who in the Internet Standards World 70 (2) 1.8 OUTLINE OF THE REST OF THE BOOK 72 (1) 1.9 SUMMARY 73 (4) 2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER 77 (98) 2.1 THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION 77 (5) 2.1.1 Fourier Analysis 78 (1) 2.1.2 Bandwidth-Limited Signals 78 (3) 2.1.3 The Maximum Data Rate of a Channel 81 (1) 2.2 TRANSMISSION MEDIA 82 (12) 2.2.1 Magnetic Media 82 (1) 2.2.2 Twisted Pair 83 (1) 2.2.3 Baseband Coaxial Cable 84 (1) 2.2.4 Broadband Coaxial Cable 85 (2) 2.2.5 Fiber Optics 87 (7) 2.3 WIRELESS TRANSMISSION 94 (8) 2.3.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 94 (3) 2.3.2 Radio Transmission 97 (1) 2.3.3 Microwave Transmission 98 (2) 2.3.4 Infrared and Millimeter Waves 100 (1) 2.3.5 Lightwave Transmission 100 (2) 2.4 THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM 102 (37) 2.4.1 Structure of the Telephone System 103 (3) 2.4.2 The Politics of Telephones 106 (2) 2.4.3 The Local Loop 108 (10) 2.4.4 Trunks and Multiplexing 118 (12) 2.4.5 Switching 130 (9) 2.5 NARROWBAND ISDN 139 (5) 2.5.1 ISDN Services 140 (1) 2.5.2 ISDN System Architecture 140 (2) 2.5.3 The ISDN Interface 142 (1) 2.5.4 Perspective on N-ISDN 143 (1) 2.6 BROADBAND ISDN AND ATM 144 (11) 2.6.1 Virtual Circuits versus Circuit Switching 145 (1) 2.6.2 Transmission in ATM Networks 146 (1) 2.6.3 ATM Switches 147 (8) 2.7 CELLULAR RADIO 155 (8) 2.7.1 Paging Systems 155 (2) 2.7.2 Cordless Telephones 157 (1) 2.7.3 Analog Cellular Telephones 157 (5) 2.7.4 Digital Cellular Telephones 162 (1) 2.7.5 Personal Communications Services 162 (1) 2.8 COMMUNICATION SATELLITES 163 (7) 2.8.1 Geosynchronous Satellites 164 (3) 2.8.2 Low-Orbit Satellites 167 (1) 2.8.3 Satellites versus Fiber 168 (2) 2.9 SUMMARY 170 (5) 3 THE DATA LINK LAYER 175 (68) 3.1 DATA LINK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES 176 (7) 3.1.1 Services Provided to the Network Layer 176 (3) 3.1.2 Framing 179 (3) 3.1.3 Error Control 182 (1) 3.1.4 Flow Control 183 (1) 3.2 ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION 183 (7) 3.2.1 Error-Correcting Codes 184 (2) 3.2.2 Error-Detecting Codes 186 (4) 3.3 ELEMENTARY DATA LINK PROTOCOLS 190 (12) 3.3.1 An Unrestricted Simplex Protocol 195 (1) 3.3.2 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol 195 (2) 3.3.3 A Simplex Protocol for a Noisy Channel 197 (5) 3.4 SLIDING WINDOW PROTOCOLS 202 (17) 3.4.1 A One Bit Sliding Window Protocol 206 (1) 3.4.2 A Protocol Using Go Back n 207 (6) 3.4.3 A Protocol Using Selective Repeat 213 (6) 3.5 PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION 219 (6) 3.5.1 Finite State Machine Models 219 (4) 3.5.2 Petri Net Models 223 (2) 3.6 EXAMPLE DATA LINK PROTOCOLS 225 (14) 3.6.1 HDLC--High-level Data Link Control 225 (4) 3.6.2 The Data Link Layer in the Internet 229 (6) 3.6.3 The Data Link Layer in ATM 235 (4) 3.7 SUMMARY 239 (4) 4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS SUBLAYER 243 (96) 4.1 THE CHANNEL ALLOCATION PROBLEM 244 (2) 4.1.1 Static Channel Allocation in LANs and MANs 244 (1) 4.1.2 Dynamic Channel Allocation in LANs and MANs 245 (1) 4.2 MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOLS 246 (29) 4.2.1 ALOHA 246 (4) 4.2.2 Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols 250 (4) 4.2.3 Collision-Free Protocols 254 (2) 4.2.4 Limited-Contention Protocols 256 (4) 4.2.5 Wavelength Division Multiple Access Protocols 260 (2) 4.2.6 Wireless LAN Protocols 262 (4) 4.2.7 Digital Cellular Radio 266 (9) 4.3 IEEE STANDARD 802 FOR LANS AND MANS 275 (29) 4.3.1 IEEE Standard 802.3 and Ethernet 276 (11) 4.3.2 IEEE Standard 802.4: Token Bus 287 (5) 4.3.3 IEEE Standard 802.5: Token Ring 292 (7) 4.3.4 Comparison of 802.3, 802.4, and 802.5 299 (2) 4.3.5 IEEE Standard 802.6: Distributed Queue Dual Bus 301 (1) 4.3.6 IEEE Standard 802.2: Logical Link Control 302 (2) 4.4 BRIDGES 304 (14) 4.4.1 Bridges from 802.x to 802.y 307 (3) 4.4.2 Transparent Bridges 310 (4) 4.4.3 Source Routing Bridges 314 (2) 4.4.4 Comparison of 802 Bridges 316 (1) 4.4.5 Remote Bridges 317 (1) 4.5 HIGH-SPEED LANS 318 (9) 4.5.1 FDDI 319 (3) 4.5.2 Fast Ethernet 322 (3) 4.5.3 HIPPI--High-Performance Parallel Interface 325 (1) 4.5.4 Fibre Channel 326 (1) 4.6 SATELLITE NETWORKS 327 (6) 4.6.1 Polling 328 (1) 4.6.2 ALOHA 329 (1) 4.6.3 FDM 330 (1) 4.6.4 TDM 330 (3) 4.6.5 CDMA 333 (1) 4.7 SUMMARY 333 (6) 5 THE NETWORK LAYER 339 (140) 5.1 NETWORK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES 339 (6) 5.1.1 Services Provided to the Transport Layer 340 (2) 5.1.2 Internal Organization of the Network Layer 342 (2) 5.1.3 Comparison of Virtual Circuit and Datagram Subnets 344 (1) 5.2 ROUTING ALGORITHMS 345 (29) 5.2.1 The Optimality Principle 347 (2) 5.2.2 Shortest Path Routing 349 (2) 5.2.3 Flooding 351 (2) 5.2.4 Flow-Based Routing 353 (2) 5.2.5 Distance Vector Routing 355 (4) 5.2.6 Link State Routing 359 (6) 5.2.7 Hierarchical Routing 365 (2) 5.2.8 Routing for Mobile Hosts 367 (3) 5.2.9 Broadcast Routing 370 (2) 5.2.10 Multicast Routing 372 (2) 5.3 CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS 374 (22) 5.3.1 General Principles of Congestion Control 376 (2) 5.3.2 Congestion Prevention Policies 378 (1) 5.3.3 Traffic Shaping 379 (5) 5.3.4 Flow Specifications 384 (2) 5.3.5 Congestion Control in Virtual Circuit Subnets 386 (1) 5.3.6 Choke Packets 387 (3) 5.3.7 Load Shedding 390 (2) 5.3.8 Jitter Control 392 (1) 5.3.9 Congestion Control for Multicasting 393 (3) 5.4 INTERNETWORKING 396 (16) 5.4.1 How Networks Differ 399 (2) 5.4.2 Concatenated Virtual Circuits 401 (1) 5.4.3 Connectionless Internetworking 402 (2) 5.4.4 Tunneling 404 (1) 5.4.5 Internetwork Routing 405 (1) 5.4.6 Fragmentation 406 (4) 5.4.7 Firewalls 410 (2) 5.5 THE NETWORK LAYER IN THE INTERNET 412 (37) 5.5.1 The IP Protocol 413 (3) 5.5.2 IP Addresses 416 (1) 5.5.3 Subnets 417 (2) 5.5.4 Internet Control Protocols 419 (5) 5.5.5 The Interior Gateway Routing Protocol: OSPF 424 (5) 5.5.6 The Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol: BGP 429 (2) 5.5.7 Internet Multicasting 431 (1) 5.5.8 Mobile IP 432 (2) 5.5.9 CIDR--Classless InterDomain Routing 434 (3) 5.5.10 IPv6 437 (12) 5.6 THE NETWORK LAYER IN ATM NETWORKS 449 (24) 5.6.1 Cell Formats 450 (2) 5.6.2 Connection Setup 452 (3) 5.6.3 Routing and Switching 455 (3) 5.6.4 Service Categories 458 (2) 5.6.5 Quality of Service 460 (3) 5.6.6 Traffic Shaping and Policing 463 (4) 5.6.7 Congestion Control 467 (4) 5.6.8 ATM LANs 471 (2) 5.7 SUMMARY 473 (6) 6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER 479 (98) 6.1 THE TRANSPORT SERVICE 479 (9) 6.1.1 Services Provided to the Upper Layers 479 (2) 6.1.2 Quality of Service 481 (2) 6.1.3 Transport Service Primitives 483 (5) 6.2 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS 488 (22) 6.2.1 Addressing 489 (4) 6.2.2 Establishing a Connection 493 (5) 6.2.3 Releasing a Connection 498 (4) 6.2.4 Flow Control and Buffering 502 (4) 6.2.5 Multiplexing 506 (2) 6.2.6 Crash Recovery 508 (2) 6.3 A SIMPLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL 510 (11) 6.3.1 The Example Service Primitives 510 (2) 6.3.2 The Example Transport Entity 512 (7) 6.3.3 The Example as a Finite State Machine 519 (2) 6.4 THE INTERNET TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS (TCP AND UDP) 521 (24) 6.4.1 The TCP Service Model 523 (1) 6.4.2 The TCP Protocol 524 (2) 6.4.3 The TCP Segment Header 526 (3) 6.4.4 TCP Connection Management 529 (4) 6.4.5 TCP Transmission Policy 533 (3) 6.4.6 TCP Congestion Control 536 (3) 6.4.7 TCP Timer Management 539 (3) 6.4.8 UDP 542 (1) 6.4.9 Wireless TCP and UDP 543 (2) 6.5 THE ATM AAL LAYER PROTOCOLS 545 (10) 6.5.1 Structure of the ATM Adaptation Layer 546 (1) 6.5.2 AAL 1 547 (2) 6.5.3 AAL 2 549 (1) 6.5.4 AAL 3/4 550 (2) 6.5.5 AAL 5 552 (2) 6.5.6 Comparison of AAL Protocols 554 (1) 6.5.7 SSCOP--Service Specific Connection-Oriented Protocol 555 (1) 6.6 PERFORMANCE ISSUES 555 (17) 6.6.1 Performance Problems in Computer Networks 556 (3) 6.6.2 Measuring Network Performance 559 (2) 6.6.3 System Design for Better Performance 561 (4) 6.6.4 Fast TPDU Processing 565 (3) 6.6.5 Protocols for Gigabit Networks 568 (4) 6.7 SUMMARY 572 (5) 7 THE APPLICATION LAYER 577 (190) 7.1 NETWORK SECURITY 577 (45) 7.1.1 Traditional Cryptography 580 (5) 7.1.2 Two Fundamental Cryptographic Principles 585 (2) 7.1.3 Secret-Key Algorithms 587 (10) 7.1.4 Public-Key Algorithms 597 (4) 7.1.5 Authentication Protocols 601 (12) 7.1.6 Digital Signatures 613 (7) 7.1.7 Social Issues 620 (2) 7.2 DNS--DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM 622 (8) 7.2.1 The DNS Name Space 622 (2) 7.2.2 Resource Records 624 (4) 7.2.3 Name Servers 628 (2) 7.3 SNMP--SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL 630 (13) 7.3.1 The SNMP Model 631 (2) 7.3.2 ASN.1--Abstract Syntax Notation 1 633 (6) 7.3.3 SMI--Structure of Management Information 639 (2) 7.3.4 The MIB--Management Information Base 641 (1) 7.3.5 The SNMP Protocol 642 (1) 7.4 ELECTRONIC MAIL 643 (26) 7.4.1 Architecture and Services 645 (1) 7.4.2 The User Agent 646 (4) 7.4.3 Message Formats 650 (7) 7.4.4 Message Transfer 657 (6) 7.4.5 Email Privacy 663 (6) 7.5 USENET NEWS 669 (12) 7.5.1 The User View of USENET 670 (5) 7.5.2 How USENET is Implemented 675 (6) 7.6 THE WORLD WIDE WEB 681 (42) 7.6.1 The Client Side 682 (3) 7.6.2 The Server Side 685 (6) 7.6.3 Writing a Web Page in HTML 691 (15) 7.6.4 Java 706 (14) 7.6.5 Locating Information on the Web 720 (3) 7.7 MULTIMEDIA 723 (37) 7.7.1 Audio 724 (3) 7.7.2 Video 727 (3) 7.7.3 Data Compression 730 (14) 7.7.4 Video on Demand 744 (12) 7.7.5 MBone--Multicast Backbone 756 (4) 7.8 SUMMARY 760 (7) 8 READING LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 767 (28) 8.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 767 (8) 8.1.1 Introduction and General Works 768 (1) 8.1.2 The Physical Layer 769 (1) 8.1.3 The Data Link Layer 770 (1) 8.1.4 The Medium Access Control Sublayer 770 (1) 8.1.5 The Network Layer 771 (1) 8.1.6 The Transport Layer 772 (1) 8.1.7 The Application Layer 772 (3) 8.2 ALPHABETICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 775 (20) INDEX 795

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-794) and index

PREFACE XV
1 INTRODUCTION
1 (76)
1.1 USES OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
3 (4)
1.1.1 Networks for Companies
3 (1)
1.1.2 Networks for People
4 (2)
1.1.3 Social Issues
6 (1)
1.2 NETWORK HARDWARE
7 (9)
1.2.1 Local Area Networks
9 (1)
1.2.2 Metropolitan Area Networks
10 (1)
1.2.3 Wide Area Networks
11 (2)
1.2.4 Wireless Networks
13 (3)
1.2.5 Internetworks
16 (1)
1.3 NETWORK SOFTWARE
16 (12)
1.3.1 Protocol Hierarchies
17 (4)
1.3.2 Design Issues for the Layers
21 (1)
1.3.3 Interfaces and Services
22 (1)
1.3.4 Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Services
23 (2)
1.3.5 Service Primitives
25 (2)
1.3.6 The Relationship of Services to Protocols
27 (1)
1.4 REFERENCE MODELS
28 (16)
1.4.1 The OSI Reference Model
28 (7)
1.4.2 The TCP/IP Reference Model
35 (3)
1.4.3 A Comparison of the OSI and TCP Reference Models
38 (2)
1.4.4 A Critique of the OSI Model and Protocols
40 (3)
1.4.5 A Critique of the TCP/IP Reference Model
43 (1)
1.5 EXAMPLE NETWORKS
44 (12)
1.5.1 Novell NetWare
45 (2)
1.5.2 The ARPANET
47 (3)
1.5.3 NSFNET
50 (2)
1.5.4 The Internet
52 (2)
1.5.5 Gigabit Testbeds
54 (2)
1.6 EXAMPLE DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES
56 (10)
1.6.1 SMDS--Switched Multimegabit Data Service
57 (2)
1.6.2 X.25 Networks
59 (1)
1.6.3 Frame Relay
60 (1)
1.6.4 Broadband ISDN and ATM
61 (5)
1.6.5 Comparison of Services
66 (1)
1.7 NETWORK STANDARDIZATION
66 (6)
1.7.1 Who's Who in the Telecommunications World
67 (2)
1.7.2 Who's Who in the International Standards World
69 (1)
1.7.3 Who's Who in the Internet Standards World
70 (2)
1.8 OUTLINE OF THE REST OF THE BOOK
72 (1)
1.9 SUMMARY
73 (4)
2 THE PHYSICAL LAYER
77 (98)
2.1 THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION
77 (5)
2.1.1 Fourier Analysis
78 (1)
2.1.2 Bandwidth-Limited Signals
78 (3)
2.1.3 The Maximum Data Rate of a Channel
81 (1)
2.2 TRANSMISSION MEDIA
82 (12)
2.2.1 Magnetic Media
82 (1)
2.2.2 Twisted Pair
83 (1)
2.2.3 Baseband Coaxial Cable
84 (1)
2.2.4 Broadband Coaxial Cable
85 (2)
2.2.5 Fiber Optics
87 (7)
2.3 WIRELESS TRANSMISSION
94 (8)
2.3.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
94 (3)
2.3.2 Radio Transmission
97 (1)
2.3.3 Microwave Transmission
98 (2)
2.3.4 Infrared and Millimeter Waves
100 (1)
2.3.5 Lightwave Transmission
100 (2)
2.4 THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM
102 (37)
2.4.1 Structure of the Telephone System
103 (3)
2.4.2 The Politics of Telephones
106 (2)
2.4.3 The Local Loop
108 (10)
2.4.4 Trunks and Multiplexing
118 (12)
2.4.5 Switching
130 (9)
2.5 NARROWBAND ISDN
139 (5)
2.5.1 ISDN Services
140 (1)
2.5.2 ISDN System Architecture
140 (2)
2.5.3 The ISDN Interface
142 (1)
2.5.4 Perspective on N-ISDN
143 (1)
2.6 BROADBAND ISDN AND ATM
144 (11)
2.6.1 Virtual Circuits versus Circuit Switching
145 (1)
2.6.2 Transmission in ATM Networks
146 (1)
2.6.3 ATM Switches
147 (8)
2.7 CELLULAR RADIO
155 (8)
2.7.1 Paging Systems
155 (2)
2.7.2 Cordless Telephones
157 (1)
2.7.3 Analog Cellular Telephones
157 (5)
2.7.4 Digital Cellular Telephones
162 (1)
2.7.5 Personal Communications Services
162 (1)
2.8 COMMUNICATION SATELLITES
163 (7)
2.8.1 Geosynchronous Satellites
164 (3)
2.8.2 Low-Orbit Satellites
167 (1)
2.8.3 Satellites versus Fiber
168 (2)
2.9 SUMMARY
170 (5)
3 THE DATA LINK LAYER
175 (68)
3.1 DATA LINK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES
176 (7)
3.1.1 Services Provided to the Network Layer
176 (3)
3.1.2 Framing
179 (3)
3.1.3 Error Control
182 (1)
3.1.4 Flow Control
183 (1)
3.2 ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION
183 (7)
3.2.1 Error-Correcting Codes
184 (2)
3.2.2 Error-Detecting Codes
186 (4)
3.3 ELEMENTARY DATA LINK PROTOCOLS
190 (12)
3.3.1 An Unrestricted Simplex Protocol
195 (1)
3.3.2 A Simplex Stop-and-Wait Protocol
195 (2)
3.3.3 A Simplex Protocol for a Noisy Channel
197 (5)
3.4 SLIDING WINDOW PROTOCOLS
202 (17)
3.4.1 A One Bit Sliding Window Protocol
206 (1)
3.4.2 A Protocol Using Go Back n
207 (6)
3.4.3 A Protocol Using Selective Repeat
213 (6)
3.5 PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION
219 (6)
3.5.1 Finite State Machine Models
219 (4)
3.5.2 Petri Net Models
223 (2)
3.6 EXAMPLE DATA LINK PROTOCOLS
225 (14)
3.6.1 HDLC--High-level Data Link Control
225 (4)
3.6.2 The Data Link Layer in the Internet
229 (6)
3.6.3 The Data Link Layer in ATM
235 (4)
3.7 SUMMARY
239 (4)
4 THE MEDIUM ACCESS SUBLAYER
243 (96)
4.1 THE CHANNEL ALLOCATION PROBLEM
244 (2)
4.1.1 Static Channel Allocation in LANs and MANs
244 (1)
4.1.2 Dynamic Channel Allocation in LANs and MANs
245 (1)
4.2 MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOLS
246 (29)
4.2.1 ALOHA
246 (4)
4.2.2 Carrier Sense Multiple Access Protocols
250 (4)
4.2.3 Collision-Free Protocols
254 (2)
4.2.4 Limited-Contention Protocols
256 (4)
4.2.5 Wavelength Division Multiple Access Protocols
260 (2)
4.2.6 Wireless LAN Protocols
262 (4)
4.2.7 Digital Cellular Radio
266 (9)
4.3 IEEE STANDARD 802 FOR LANS AND MANS
275 (29)
4.3.1 IEEE Standard 802.3 and Ethernet
276 (11)
4.3.2 IEEE Standard 802.4: Token Bus
287 (5)
4.3.3 IEEE Standard 802.5: Token Ring
292 (7)
4.3.4 Comparison of 802.3, 802.4, and 802.5
299 (2)
4.3.5 IEEE Standard 802.6: Distributed Queue Dual Bus
301 (1)
4.3.6 IEEE Standard 802.2: Logical Link Control
302 (2)
4.4 BRIDGES
304 (14)
4.4.1 Bridges from 802.x to 802.y
307 (3)
4.4.2 Transparent Bridges
310 (4)
4.4.3 Source Routing Bridges
314 (2)
4.4.4 Comparison of 802 Bridges
316 (1)
4.4.5 Remote Bridges
317 (1)
4.5 HIGH-SPEED LANS
318 (9)
4.5.1 FDDI
319 (3)
4.5.2 Fast Ethernet
322 (3)
4.5.3 HIPPI--High-Performance Parallel Interface
325 (1)
4.5.4 Fibre Channel
326 (1)
4.6 SATELLITE NETWORKS
327 (6)
4.6.1 Polling
328 (1)
4.6.2 ALOHA
329 (1)
4.6.3 FDM
330 (1)
4.6.4 TDM
330 (3)
4.6.5 CDMA
333 (1)
4.7 SUMMARY
333 (6)
5 THE NETWORK LAYER
339 (140)
5.1 NETWORK LAYER DESIGN ISSUES
339 (6)
5.1.1 Services Provided to the Transport Layer
340 (2)
5.1.2 Internal Organization of the Network Layer
342 (2)
5.1.3 Comparison of Virtual Circuit and Datagram Subnets
344 (1)
5.2 ROUTING ALGORITHMS
345 (29)
5.2.1 The Optimality Principle
347 (2)
5.2.2 Shortest Path Routing
349 (2)
5.2.3 Flooding
351 (2)
5.2.4 Flow-Based Routing
353 (2)
5.2.5 Distance Vector Routing
355 (4)
5.2.6 Link State Routing
359 (6)
5.2.7 Hierarchical Routing
365 (2)
5.2.8 Routing for Mobile Hosts
367 (3)
5.2.9 Broadcast Routing
370 (2)
5.2.10 Multicast Routing
372 (2)
5.3 CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS
374 (22)
5.3.1 General Principles of Congestion Control
376 (2)
5.3.2 Congestion Prevention Policies
378 (1)
5.3.3 Traffic Shaping
379 (5)
5.3.4 Flow Specifications
384 (2)
5.3.5 Congestion Control in Virtual Circuit Subnets
386 (1)
5.3.6 Choke Packets
387 (3)
5.3.7 Load Shedding
390 (2)
5.3.8 Jitter Control
392 (1)
5.3.9 Congestion Control for Multicasting
393 (3)
5.4 INTERNETWORKING
396 (16)
5.4.1 How Networks Differ
399 (2)
5.4.2 Concatenated Virtual Circuits
401 (1)
5.4.3 Connectionless Internetworking
402 (2)
5.4.4 Tunneling
404 (1)
5.4.5 Internetwork Routing
405 (1)
5.4.6 Fragmentation
406 (4)
5.4.7 Firewalls
410 (2)
5.5 THE NETWORK LAYER IN THE INTERNET
412 (37)
5.5.1 The IP Protocol
413 (3)
5.5.2 IP Addresses
416 (1)
5.5.3 Subnets
417 (2)
5.5.4 Internet Control Protocols
419 (5)
5.5.5 The Interior Gateway Routing Protocol: OSPF
424 (5)
5.5.6 The Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol: BGP
429 (2)
5.5.7 Internet Multicasting
431 (1)
5.5.8 Mobile IP
432 (2)
5.5.9 CIDR--Classless InterDomain Routing
434 (3)
5.5.10 IPv6
437 (12)
5.6 THE NETWORK LAYER IN ATM NETWORKS
449 (24)
5.6.1 Cell Formats
450 (2)
5.6.2 Connection Setup
452 (3)
5.6.3 Routing and Switching
455 (3)
5.6.4 Service Categories
458 (2)
5.6.5 Quality of Service
460 (3)
5.6.6 Traffic Shaping and Policing
463 (4)
5.6.7 Congestion Control
467 (4)
5.6.8 ATM LANs
471 (2)
5.7 SUMMARY
473 (6)
6 THE TRANSPORT LAYER
479 (98)
6.1 THE TRANSPORT SERVICE
479 (9)
6.1.1 Services Provided to the Upper Layers
479 (2)
6.1.2 Quality of Service
481 (2)
6.1.3 Transport Service Primitives
483 (5)
6.2 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS
488 (22)
6.2.1 Addressing
489 (4)
6.2.2 Establishing a Connection
493 (5)
6.2.3 Releasing a Connection
498 (4)
6.2.4 Flow Control and Buffering
502 (4)
6.2.5 Multiplexing
506 (2)
6.2.6 Crash Recovery
508 (2)
6.3 A SIMPLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL
510 (11)
6.3.1 The Example Service Primitives
510 (2)
6.3.2 The Example Transport Entity
512 (7)
6.3.3 The Example as a Finite State Machine
519 (2)
6.4 THE INTERNET TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS (TCP AND UDP)
521 (24)
6.4.1 The TCP Service Model
523 (1)
6.4.2 The TCP Protocol
524 (2)
6.4.3 The TCP Segment Header
526 (3)
6.4.4 TCP Connection Management
529 (4)
6.4.5 TCP Transmission Policy
533 (3)
6.4.6 TCP Congestion Control
536 (3)
6.4.7 TCP Timer Management
539 (3)
6.4.8 UDP
542 (1)
6.4.9 Wireless TCP and UDP
543 (2)
6.5 THE ATM AAL LAYER PROTOCOLS
545 (10)
6.5.1 Structure of the ATM Adaptation Layer
546 (1)
6.5.2 AAL 1
547 (2)
6.5.3 AAL 2
549 (1)
6.5.4 AAL 3/4
550 (2)
6.5.5 AAL 5
552 (2)
6.5.6 Comparison of AAL Protocols
554 (1)
6.5.7 SSCOP--Service Specific Connection-Oriented Protocol
555 (1)
6.6 PERFORMANCE ISSUES
555 (17)
6.6.1 Performance Problems in Computer Networks
556 (3)
6.6.2 Measuring Network Performance
559 (2)
6.6.3 System Design for Better Performance
561 (4)
6.6.4 Fast TPDU Processing
565 (3)
6.6.5 Protocols for Gigabit Networks
568 (4)
6.7 SUMMARY
572 (5)
7 THE APPLICATION LAYER
577 (190)
7.1 NETWORK SECURITY
577 (45)
7.1.1 Traditional Cryptography
580 (5)
7.1.2 Two Fundamental Cryptographic Principles
585 (2)
7.1.3 Secret-Key Algorithms
587 (10)
7.1.4 Public-Key Algorithms
597 (4)
7.1.5 Authentication Protocols
601 (12)
7.1.6 Digital Signatures
613 (7)
7.1.7 Social Issues
620 (2)
7.2 DNS--DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM
622 (8)
7.2.1 The DNS Name Space
622 (2)
7.2.2 Resource Records
624 (4)
7.2.3 Name Servers
628 (2)
7.3 SNMP--SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
630 (13)
7.3.1 The SNMP Model
631 (2)
7.3.2 ASN.1--Abstract Syntax Notation 1
633 (6)
7.3.3 SMI--Structure of Management Information
639 (2)
7.3.4 The MIB--Management Information Base
641 (1)
7.3.5 The SNMP Protocol
642 (1)
7.4 ELECTRONIC MAIL
643 (26)
7.4.1 Architecture and Services
645 (1)
7.4.2 The User Agent
646 (4)
7.4.3 Message Formats
650 (7)
7.4.4 Message Transfer
657 (6)
7.4.5 Email Privacy
663 (6)
7.5 USENET NEWS
669 (12)
7.5.1 The User View of USENET
670 (5)
7.5.2 How USENET is Implemented
675 (6)
7.6 THE WORLD WIDE WEB
681 (42)
7.6.1 The Client Side
682 (3)
7.6.2 The Server Side
685 (6)
7.6.3 Writing a Web Page in HTML
691 (15)
7.6.4 Java
706 (14)
7.6.5 Locating Information on the Web
720 (3)
7.7 MULTIMEDIA
723 (37)
7.7.1 Audio
724 (3)
7.7.2 Video
727 (3)
7.7.3 Data Compression
730 (14)
7.7.4 Video on Demand
744 (12)
7.7.5 MBone--Multicast Backbone
756 (4)
7.8 SUMMARY
760 (7)
8 READING LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
767 (28)
8.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
767 (8)
8.1.1 Introduction and General Works
768 (1)
8.1.2 The Physical Layer
769 (1)
8.1.3 The Data Link Layer
770 (1)
8.1.4 The Medium Access Control Sublayer
770 (1)
8.1.5 The Network Layer
771 (1)
8.1.6 The Transport Layer
772 (1)
8.1.7 The Application Layer
772 (3)
8.2 ALPHABETICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
775 (20)
INDEX 795

This classic reference for students, and anyone who wants to know more about connectivity, has been totally rewritten to reflect the networks of the 1990s and beyond.

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