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Allows students to assess the relative merits and application areas of new schemes for moving large volumes of data at high rates within the local area. Ex.___
Familiarizes students with the dominant approaches to satisfying demands on local networks. Ex.___
Offers students additional material on IPv6, so that they can obtain a more complete understanding of LAN design. Ex.___
Gives students background information pertaining to the 802.11 standards in an increasingly important area of network installations. Ex.___
Helps students grasp the significant topic of LAN traffic classes, and the relationship between 802.1D traffic classes and layer 3 quality of service (QoS). Ex.___
Introduces students to the new SNMPv3 standard to broaden their perspective on network management. Ex.___
Provides students with an understanding of how the range of such standards defines the available products and future research directions in this field. Ex.___
Encourages students to examine and compare the concepts of bridges and routers for enhanced comprehension. Ex.___
Enables students to understand the technical issues involved in managing complex network configurations as well as the fundamentals of the most important network management standard, SNMP. Ex.___
Gives students the necessary information to understand the nearly universal strategy used to wire buildings, and the emerging use of Category 5 UTP cable to achieve high data rates. Ex.___
Serve as references for students to access up-to-date and supplementary information related to the material currently being studied. Ex.___
Provides students with an opportunity to test and expand their knowledge of chapter material. Ex.___
This fully updated Sixth Edition of Local and Metropolitan provides a clear, comprehensive presentation of LAN/MAN technology for students and professionals. The author emphasizes both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving LAN/MAN design. This new edition covers alternative approaches to high-speed and wireless LANs and related issues of QoS and interconnecting networks. Nowhere else can you find a complete and detailed survey of all the LAN/MAN systems.
Ethernet Case Study: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Local Area Networks: An Overview
Local Area Networks: To Probe Further
Masters of the LAN Universe: The IEEE 802 Committee
1. Introduction.
I. TECHNICAL BACKGROUND.
2. Topics in Data Communications.II. LAN/MAN ARCHITECTURE.
4. Topologies and Transmission Media.III. LAN/MAN SYSTEMS.
7. Ethernet LANs.IV. DESIGN ISSUES.
12. Bridges.
This book focuses on the broad and evolving field of local and metropolitan area networks. The aim of the text is to provide a reasoned balance among breadth, depth, and timeliness. The book emphasizes topics of fundamental importance concerning the technology and architecture of these networks. Certain key related areas, such as performance, internetworking, and network management, are also treated in some detail.
The book explores the key topics in the field in the following general categories:
The book is organized into four parts:
The book includes an extensive glossary, a list of frequently used acronyms, and a bibliography. Each chapter includes problems and suggestions for further reading.
Throughout, there is an emphasis on both technology and on standards. The book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding specific LAN and MAN standards, such as IEEE 802 and FDDI, and the specifications issued by the ATM Forum and the Fibre Channel Association. This emphasis reflects the importance of such standards in defining the available products and future research directions in this field.
There is a Web page for this book that provides support for students and instructors. The page includes links to relevant sites, transparency masters of figures in the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, and sign-up information for the book's Internet mailing list. The Web page is at WilliamStallings.com/LAN6e.html. An Internet mailing list has been set up so that instructors using this book can exchange information, suggestions, and questions with each other and with the author. As soon as typos or other errors are discovered, an errata list for this book will be available at WilliamStallings.com. Finally, I maintain the Computer Science Student Support Site at WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html.
In the four years since the fifth edition of this book was published, the field has seen continued innovations and improvements. In this new edition, I try to capture these changes while maintaining a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field. To begin the process of revision, the fifth edition of this book was extensively reviewed by a number of professors who teach the subject and by professionals working in the field. The result is that, in many places, the narrative has been clarified and tightened, and illustrations have been improved. Also, a number of new "field-tested" problems have been added.
Beyond these refinements to improve pedagogy and user friendliness, the most obvious change in the sixth edition is the increased emphasis on high-speed networks. A number of trends dictate the rapid move to high-speed technology in the LAN/MAN field: the continued, relentless increase in the speed and capacity of computer systems; the evolution of applications to include greater emphasis on graphic and video; and the increased volume of data generated by the move to client/server computing. The result of these trends has been the introduction in recent years of a number of new schemes for moving large volumes of data at high rates within the local area. These schemes are both complementary and competing, making it difficult for the observer to assess their relative merits and areas of application. This new edition covers these alternative approaches to high-speed local networking and addresses the issues relating to interconnecting these networks with each other and with wide area networks.
Some of the most noteworthy changes are the following: