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Computer Networks and Internets with Internet Applications, 4th Edition
- By Douglas E Comer
- Published Aug 4, 2003 by Pearson.
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Features
- NEW - An integrated approach to learning—Combines the best of top-down networking with the best of bottom-up networking.
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Exposes students to applications and gets them programming early, while delivering the material in logical order.
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- NEW - Updated and revised content throughout.
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Supplies students with the most current information on networking and Internet technology.
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- NEW - Added chapter on UDP: Datagram Transport Service —Chapter 24 explains UDP and shows the package format.
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Introduces students to an important topic for use with multicasting, message systems, and Internet telephony.
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- NEW - Added chapter on Network Address Translation —Chapter 26 explains the major variants of NAT including NAPT and shows how NAT works.
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Explores a technology that allows multiple computers to share a single IP address—an important component of both residential and small business networks.
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- NEW - Added chapter on IP Telephony—Chapter 33 covers the technology that allows voice telephone communication over the Internet.
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Explains the protocols used for IP telephony, and discusses the problem of interfacing between an IP telephone system and the current public switched telephone network.
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- Broad and substantial coverage.
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Provides students with in-depth discussions of topics such as: local and wide area networks, local access technologies such as ADSL and cable modems, dynamic web document technologies, network management, socket programming, address binding, IPv6, error handling with ICMP, and Virtual Private Networks.
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- Focus on concepts and principles.
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Enables students to apply the principles they learn to new technologies in this evolving field where technologies may become obsolete in a few years.
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- Flexible organization—Chapters can be covered in a variety of orders after students have completed Parts I and II.
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Accommodates a wide variety of instructor/student/course needs and preferences.
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- CD-ROM included with every text—Features keyword search mechanism and links to the Website, which is updated continuously.
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Supplies students with animated figures that help clarify concepts, over 200 photos of network wiring and equipment, and data files that can be used as input to student projects and figures from the text. Provides packet traces so that students without access to networking facilities can write programs that read a trace and process packets as if they have been captured from the network.
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- Online help for instructors and students—Two electronic mailing lists available for the text. General information can be obtained from netbook@cs.purdue.edu. Discussions about teaching the material occur on netbook-inst@cs.purdue.edu. To join either list, send an e-mail message to the list name -request with a body that consists of the word subscribe. Instructors are requested to establish a single local alias for all students at their site.
- Appendix 1: Glossary of Networking Terms and Abbreviations—Includes more than 80 newer entries.
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Helps students master the new and sometimes confusing networking terminology, including acronyms and jargon. Definitions in the glossary have been written independently rather than being taken verbatim from the text in order to provide additional clarification.
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- Excellent, optional internetworking with TCP/IP coverage.
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Provides students with the most accessible presentation of fundamental networking/internet technology with a highly readable presentation.
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- Highly accessible—Does not use sophisticated mathematics, defines concepts clearly with analogies and examples, uses examples and drawings to illustrate how the technology operates, states results of analysis without mathematical proofs, and does not assume a knowledge of operating systems.
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Appropriate for a variety of student audiences, including those without backgrounds in networking.
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Description
- Copyright 2004
- Edition: 4th
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-143351-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-143351-9
Best-selling author and leading computer networking authority Douglas Comer builds a comprehensive picture of the technologies that allow the Internet to provide application services such as web browsing and instant messaging. This edition includes new chapters on the use of Internet technology.
The book offers an incomparable tour that explains everything from Internet applications to the lowest levels of packet transmission. It shows how protocols are layered, and explains how a given layer provides services used by the next higher layer.
KEY FEATURES Revised and updated throughout, including:
- FAQ email list with answers to questions from a leading networking authority
- NEW—Chapter 24, User Datagram Protocol: Introduces an end-to-end datagram protocol and shows how to use it. Once considered insignificant, UDP forms the important basis for multicast and broadcast applications and new applications that transfer audio or video.
- NEW—Chapter 26, Network Address Translation (NAT): Explains how NAT technology overcomes a major limitation of the Internet by allowing multiple computers to share a single IP address, especially important for residential and small business installations.
- NEW—Chapter 33, IP Telephony: Discusses the most exciting new Internet application, transmitting telephone calls over the Internet (VoIP). The chapter explains competing standards for IP telephony, including protocols such as H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and MegacoIt also shows a sample SIP session.
- Includes a CD-ROM with animations, packet traces, more than 200 photos of networking equipment, code from the book and copies of protocol standards. A Web site with additional items including instructional materials is at http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu
- Accompanying lab manual, Hands-On Networking with Internet Technologies, Second Edition, offers an integrated package for teachers.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
I. USING AND BUILDING INTERNET APPLICATIONS.
1. Introduction.2. Motivation and Tools.
3. Network Programming and Applications.
II. DATA TRANSMISSION.
4. Transmission Media.5. Local Asynchronous Communication RS-232.
6. Long-Distance Communication Carriers, Modulation, and Modems.
III. PACKET TRANSMISSION.
7. Packets, Frames, and Error Detection.8. LAN Technologies and Network Topology.
9. Hardware Addressing and Frame Type Identification.
10. LAN Wiring, Physical Topology, and Interface Hardware.
11. Extending LANs: Fiber Modems, Repeaters, Bridges, and Switches.
12. Long-Distance and Local Loop Digital Connection Technologies.
13. WAN Technologies and Routing.
14. Connection-Oriented Networking and ATM.
15. Network Characteristics: Ownership, Service Paradigm, and Performance.
16. Protocols and Layering.
IV. INTERNETWORKING.
17. Internetworking: Concepts, Architecture, and Protocols.18. IP: Internet Protocol Addresses.
19. Binding Protocol Addresses ARP.
20. IP Datagrams and Datagram Forwarding.
21. IP Encapsulation, Fragmentation, and Reassembly.
22. The Future IP IPv6.
23. An Error Reporting Mechanism (CMP).
24. UDP: Datagram Transport Service.
25. TCP: Reliable Transport Service.
26. Network Address Translation.
27. Internet Routing.
V. NETWORK APPLICATIONS.
28. Client-Server Interaction.29. The Socket Interface.
30. Example of a Client and a Server.
31. Naming with the Domain Name System.
32. Electronic Mail Representation and Transfer.
33. IP Telephony VoIP.
34. File Transfer and Remote File Access.
35. World Wide Web Pages and Browsing.
36. Dynamic Web Document Technologies CGI, ASP, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion.
37. Active Web Document Technologies Java, JavaScript.
38. RPC and Middleware.
39. Network Management SNMP.
40. Network Security.
41. Initialization Configuration.
Appendix 1: Glossary of Networking Terms and Abbreviations.
Appendix 2: The ASCII Character Set.
Appendix 3: Address Masks in Dotted Decimal.
Appendix 4: How to Use the CD-ROM Included with this Book.
Bibliography.
Index.
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