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Kurose, James F.

Computer networking : a top-down approach featuring the Internet / James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross. - Third edition. - Boston : Pearson/Addison Wesley, ©2005. - xxiv, 821 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.


The Network Edge --
The Network Core --
Access Networks and Physical Media --
ISPs and Internet Backbones --
Delay and Loss in Packet-Switched Networks --
Protocol Layers and Their Service Models --
History of Computer Networking and the Internet --
Interview: Leonard Kleinrock --
Application Layer --
Principles of Network Applications --
The Web and HTTP --
File Transfer: FTP --
Electronic Mail in the Internet --
DNS--The Internet's Directory Service --
P2P File Sharing --
Socket Programming with TCP --
Socket Programming with UDP --
Building a Simple Web Server --
Interview: Tim Berners-Lee --
Transport Layer --
Introduction and Transport-Layer Services --
Multiplexing and Demultiplexing --
Connectionless Transport: UDP --
Principles of Reliable Data Transfer --
Connection-Oriented Transport: TCP --
Principles of Congestion Control --
TCP Congestion Control --
Interview: Sally Floyd --
The Network Layer --
Virtual Circuit and Datagram Networks --
What's Inside a Router? --
The Internet Protocol (IP): Forwarding and Addressing in the Internet --
Routing Algorithms --
Routing in the Internet --
Broadcast and Multicast Routing --
Interview: Vinton G. Cerf --
The Link Layer and Local Area Networks --
Link Layer: Introduction and Services --
Error-Detection and -Correction Techniques --
Multiple Access Protocols --
Link-Layer Addressing --
Ethernet --
Interconnections: Hubs and Switches --
PPP: The Point-to-Point Protocol --
Link Virtualization: A Network as a Link Layer.

ISBN: 0321269764 9780321269768

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Internet.
Computer networks.

LC Class. No.: TK5105.875.I57 / K88