Data and Computer Communications, 7th Edition

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Features

• NEW - Expanded coverage of wireless communications and networking—Devotes one chapter each to spread spectrum technology, cellular wireless networks, and wireless LANs.

  • Ensures that students become well-versed on the issues of this very hot topic.

• NEW - Improved pedagogy—Features a clarified, tightened narrative; improved illustrations; new “field-tested” problems; lists of key words and review questions at the end of each chapter; and expanded Web support.

  • Makes content even more accessible to students.

• NEW - New, updated, and expanded topics—Gigabit Ethernet (including 10-Gbps Ethernet), differentiated Services, Guaranteed frame rate (GFR), multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).

• NEW - A new background chapter on TCP/IP.

  • Pulls together material scattered throughout the previous edition to ensure that students don't miss any material that is vital to an understanding of QoS and performance issues in IP-based networks.

• A modular format.

  • Allows instructors to easily design a course to meet their individual needs. For students, it breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts.

• Unifying principles—Repeatedly emphasizes such principles as multiplexing, flow control, and error control, and contrasts their application in specific areas of technology.

  • Enables students to understand how the same protocol design principles are applied at different levels of the protocol architecture.

• Design Approaches—Examines alternative approaches to meeting specific communication requirements.

  • Gives students a deeper understanding of communication system and protocol design.

• Standards—Offers a comprehensive discussion of the current status and future direction of related technology standards.

  • Gives students an understanding of the central role of standards in network and protocol design.

• Unparalleled project support—The Instructor's CD-ROM not only includes guidance on how to assign and structure projects, but also includes a set of suggested projects that covers a broad range of topics from the text, including research projects, simulation projects, analytic modeling projects, and reading/report assignments.

  • Provides students with hands-on experience to reinforce concepts from the text.

• Over 250 homework problems—With a range of difficulty. Solutions are provided on the Instructor's CD.

  • Gives students opportunity to test their comprehension of concepts.

• Strong pedagogical support—Includes liberal use of figures and tables; glossary; list of acronyms; recommended reading list and Websites; and a bibliography.

  • Provides students with convenient study tools.

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Description

• Copyright 2004
• Edition: 7th

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-13-100681-9
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-100681-2

In Data and Computer Communications, Seventh Edition, William Stallings maintains his status as the preeminent author of clear and comprehensive texts in the field of data communications. Dr. Stallings provides new, in-depth presentations on wireless cot71munications, wireless networks and wireless standards. This most recent edition, which includes a tutorial on the latest in network design technologies and protocols, is an essential tool for professionals, academics, and students alike.

MAJOR CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND FEATURES:

• Fully discusses significant Internet developments: integrated services, differentiated services and other matters related to Quality of Service (QoS). and addresses the RSVP reservation protocols.
• Comprehensive coverage of wireless communications and networks. including wireless LANs and cellular networks.
• Reviews TCP Congestion Control and ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques.
• A detailed treatment of high-speed LANs including 1Q-Ubps Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
• A full discussion of data communications, circuit switching, and packet switching.
• Supplements the text with a Companion Website, www.prenhall.com/stallings. This source provides links to numerous pertinent sites, transparency masters of figures from the book, PowerPoint slides for lecturing, and an errata sheet.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

 0. Reader's Guide.

I. OVERVIEW.

 1. Data Communications and Networking Overview.
 2. Protocol Architecture.

II. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.

 3. Data Transmission.
 4. Guided and Wireless Transmission.
 5. Signal Encoding Techniques.
 6. Digital Data Communication Techniques.
 7. Data Link Control.
 8. Multiplexing.
 9. Spread Spectrum.

III. WIDE AREA NETWORKS.

10. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.
11. Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
12. Routing in Switched Networks.
13. Congestion Control in Switched Data Networks.
14. Cellular Wireless Networks.

IV. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.

15. Local Area Network Overview.
16. High-Speed LANs.
17. Wireless LANs.

V. COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS.

18. Internetwork Protocols.
19. Internetwork Operation.
20. Transport Protocols.
21. Network Security.
22. Distributed Applications.

APPENDICES.

A. RFCs Cited in This Book.
B. Fourier Analysis.
C. Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

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