Summary:

Data and Computer Communications sixth edition provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the whole field of data communications and a tutorial on leading-edge network technologies and protocols. Considered the standard in its field for the last 15 years, this up-to-date book continues to meet the needs of students, academics, and professionals by emphasizing both the fundamental principles as well as the critical role of performance in driving protocol and network design. This new edition offers a complete and detailed assessment of critical technical areas in data communications, wide-area networking, local area networking, and protocol design.

Key Highlights of the Major Substantive Changes:

• Includes xDSL, a family of digital subscriber line technologies that provides high-speed access to ISDN and other wide-area networks over ordinary twisted-pair lines from the network to a residential or business subscriber
• Presents an introduction to Gigabit Ethernet and an updated discussion on 100-Mbps Ethernet
• Covers Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service and Mechanisms that provides enhanced support for IP-based data traffic
• Surveys TCP Congestion Control, an area of active research
• Highlights Congestion Control that clarifies and expands the coverage of ATM traffic management and congestion control techniques Offers a new section devoted to IP Multicasting
• Incorporates substantial developments to the Internet, e.g. integrated services, differentiated services, other issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), and the important RSVP reservation protocol
• Provides a Companion Website, www.prenhall.com/stallings, with extensive supplementaryresources such as links to important sites for students and instructors, transparency masters of figures from the book, PowerPoint slides for lecturing, and an errata sheet

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Protocols and Architecture

Chapter 3: Data Transmission

Chapter 4: Transmission Media

Chapter 5: Data Encoding

Chapter 6: The Datacommunication Interface

Chapter 7: Data Link Control

Chapter 8: Multiplexing

Chapter 9: Circuit Switching

Chapter 10: Packet Switching

Chapter 11: ATM and Frame Relay

Chapter 12: Congestion Control in Data Networks

Chapter 13: LAN Technology

Chapter 14: LAN Systems

Chapter 15: Internetwork Protocols

Chapter 16: Internetwork Operation

Chapter 17: Transport Protocols

Chapter 18: Network Security

Chapter 19: Distributed Applications

Appendix A: ISDN and Broadband ISDN

Appendix B: RFCs Cited in This Book

Appendix C: Projects for Teaching Data and Computer Communications

Glossary

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Index