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| Computer Networks and Internets, Fifth Edition Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright Year: 2009 Publishing Date: 2008/04/18
Pages: 768 DESCRIPTION Appropriate for all
introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking, the
Internet, or Internet applications; students need no background in
networking, operating systems, or advanced mathematics.
Leading networking authority Douglas Comer
presents a wide-ranging, self-contained tour of the concepts,
principles, and technologies that enable today’s Internet to
support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and
multimedia. This Fifth Edition has been thoroughly reorganized,
revised, and updated: it includes extensive new coverage of topics
ranging from wireless protocols to network performance, while
reducing or eliminating coverage of older protocols and
technologies. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and
facilities offered by today’s Internet. Next, he
systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and
protocols that make them possible: low-level data communications;
packet switching, LAN, and WAN technologies; and Internet protocols
such as TCP, IP, UDP, and IPv6. With these concepts and
technologies established, he introduces several of the most
important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and
managers, including quality of service, Internet telephony,
multimedia, network security, and network management. Comer has
carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up
teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating
systems, and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on
figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical
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