Data and Computer Communications

For a one/two-semester courses in Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Communications Networks in CS, CIS, and Electrical Engineering departments. With a focus on the most current technology and a convenient modular format, this best-selling text offers a clear and comprehensive survey of the entire data and computer communications field. Emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design, it explores in detail all the critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design. It covers the material in the Computer Communication and Networking core course of the joint ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001. - 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. - A new background chapter on TCP/IP, pulls together material scattered throughout the previous edition to ensure that students dont miss any material that is vital to an understanding of QoS a

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